The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 17, 2016

As I understand it, supper is the last meal of the day, and dinner is the largest, whether it’s eaten at lunchtime or suppertime.

In the south dinner is the same as lunch in the north.

Being raised on a Missouri farm duriing the 1930/40’s, I learned that dinner refers to the main meal of the day. In the city, that was in the evening, therefore no supper. On the farm, the main meal was at noon, when we all came in from the fields to eat “dinner”. Then, we had our “supper” in the evening.

I would point out that there’s a dinner bell but no supper bell. And a dinner plate but no supper plate. Dinner table but no supper table. A four-course dinner but no four-course supper. It’s “dinner and a movie,” not supper and a movie. Dinner jacket but no supper jacket.

I think Supper is what we have here in Kansas, Dinner is in the more “sophisticated” parts of the country.I prefer supper.

I always thought of “supper” as something you say on a farm or in the south. I prefer saying, “dinner”.

supper, dinner – comme ci comme ca

As any good ol’ Southron boy knows, dinner is a large meal eaten around noon; supper is a lighter meal eaten in the evening. Lunch is a crazy yankee excuse for a meal…. lol

In Ohio we always had lunch. We ate Supper in the evening unless we went out to a nice restaurant then we called it Dinner.

Just say “It’s Food!”

It’s personal preference or what you were raised with. My mother, born and raised in the south, referred to meals as ‘breakfast’, ‘lunch’, and ‘dinner’. When I would stay with my aunt, who was my mother’s younger sister and raised in the same household as my mother, I’d hear meals referred to as ‘breakfast’, ‘dinner’, and ‘supper’. ‘Supper’ was the big meal at the end of the day (5:30 – 6:00pm). ‘Dinner’ was at any time from 12:00pm to 3:00pm and looked more like ‘dinner’ at my mother’s house.

There’s too much confusion in the world so I just use breakfast, lunch, and supper.

Back when I was in the Navy (early ‘70s) the enlisted ate breakfast, dinner and supper. The officers ate breakfast, lunch and dinner. No, I don’t know why; it’s just the way things were done, and probably still are.

Growing up, dinner was the noon(ish), big meal on Sunday. Every other day had lunch at noon and supper at 6.