Do you eat dinner or supper? - Democratic Underground

elfwitch

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:29 PM
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Poll question: Do you eat dinner or supper?

What do you call your evening meal?
Some people call it dinner.
Some people call it supper.
What do you call it?

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GOPisEvil

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:31 PM
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1. Dinner!

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

:-)

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VelmaD

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:31 PM
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2. I'm from the South...we eat both

Dinner is synonymous with lunch. Especially if you eat it at church, as in "all day singing and dinner on the grounds". :)

Supper is what you eat at night.

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supernova

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:41 PM
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5. Well, Dinner = biggest meal of the day

and a lot of Southerns do eat the biggest meal in the afternoon, ergo it's "Dinner."

If you eat little something in the evening, it's supper.

I like eating this way. Helps me control my weight. :D

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meegbear

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:32 PM
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3. Myself, my family and /or friends eating "informally" ....

I light meal, a casual encounter, have supper. A formal meal or a restaurant meal with a server is dinner.

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SiobhanClancy

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:39 PM
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4. Same here....

I go out to dinner,and stay home for supper...usually not on the same night,of course.

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Deb

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Thu Mar-25-04 12:49 PM
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6. Both

If it's the largest meal of the day we call it dinner. Say we have a noontime Sunday Dinner the next meal (smaller) is called supper.

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johnnie

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Thu Mar-25-04 01:05 PM
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7. Interesting..

Never thought about this till now, but I eat dinner now. We called it supper when I was a child (if it matters, I'm from the north). I don't know when I started eating dinner. Now I wonder if I ever call it supper. I'll have to pay some attention.

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SCDem

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Thu Mar-25-04 01:07 PM
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8. I eat dinner but my husband eats supper and we eat at the same

time and place.... go figure. Furthermore our son is only 4months now but when he grows up I wonder if he is going to eat dinner or supper.

Actually my husband says dinner is what I call lunch. Go figure!

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CrownPrinceBandar

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Thu Mar-25-04 01:11 PM
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9. I wonder if its a geographic thing....

you know, like the whole soda/pop/coke thing?

I say supper.

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ashling

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Thu Mar-25-04 01:23 PM
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10. I realize that I may be archaic,

Dinner is the meal in the middle of the day
In the evening you eat supper.

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