Supper
Do you guys over the fish pond eat supper at all? I ask because a playmate of our daughter's, a young Canadian girl, looked mystified when Phyllida mentioned that she had supper before she went to...
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>On Sundays at my grandparents' house, we would refer to the large midday meal as "dinner" and the lighter evening meal as "supper", but I don't observe that distinction any more.This describes...
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lived most of my life in the Chicago area. which would explain why "supper" is also the preferred word for the evening meal in my world. Also less formal than "dinner" (suggesting the good silver). At...
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My usage is a combo of duffifi and ozzie. I say dinner and supper nearly equally to mean the last meal of the day (snacks notwithstanding). Special occasions in my childhood home always called for...
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No, I've never seen supper on a menu in the UK (although, admittedly, I don't dine out as often as I used to). Strictly a domestic meal, I'd say.
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I've never seen a "supper" menu. I think the term, while hanging on in regional use, is alien to the "official" culture represented by restaurant menus. (I've only heard aged relatives use it myself.)
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"Supper" is hardly used only by the aged in the US. I'm only 42 and it's in my vocabulary. "Supper" is a more informal meal, hence it's not common in restaurant usage. Although there are "supper...
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Wisconsin origins here--confirm that supper was the evening meal, dinner a formal meal. Thanksgiving dinner, for instance, was always around lunchtime.
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Modern Italian names for the three main meals of the day (prima colazione, pranzo, and cena) go back to Imperial Rome, where they were called respectively jentaculum, prandium and cena. From prandium...
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I read, in a website about parakeets,that the aboriginal word for snack was "parakeet." Can someone from downunder or anywhere for that matter confirm or reject?I too lurk most nights.Alaska
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Some of you may recall the ill-famed Emperor Bokassa of the former Central African Republic (don't remember what it was called when it became an "Empire"). His word for "snack" was, apparently, "homo...
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Here in the UK, supper versus dinner is a class difference. This has come about since about the 17th century, when all classes ate their main meal, called dinner, around noon, and a smaller meal,...
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My experience in the rural US was rather like duffifi and ozzie have described and I almost didn't comment. Then reading Syntinen Laulu I recalled that we did "lunch" too. "Lunch" was something to eat...
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We've discussed this (more than once) before, but I'm too lazy to google. That's what comes of eating a mid-day meal that you don't know what to call any more.In South Africa we ate breakfast, lunch...
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"Although there are "supper clubs," which are (usually) private dining/night clubs." Like the famous "Bass River Supper Club".
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Across the pond here in Dallas we have breakfast, lunch, then dinner/supper. With dinner & supper used interchangedly (supper being more informal & "homey" than dinner). I have never had...
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An early supper club is documented in the KJV (Luke 22:20); exclusive to begin with, membership was eventually thrown wide open
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I couldn't resist! The August 16th Dallas Morning News, in a column titled "The Lunch Ladies", mentions they ate "Lean Cuisine Dinnertime Selects" frozen meals which contain more food than the average...
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