Dinner or Supper?

[EarlJam]

DevilAlumna, this one's for you!

That event you have around 6:00 - 8:00 at night where you eat a meal? Do you call it Dinner or Supper?

[hc5duke]

dinner. and if it ain't broke, don't fix it. :D

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Dinner.

Supper is a southern term, like y'all. Live here long enough and you say them both :)

[EarlJam]

Dinner.

Supper is a southern term, like y'all. Live here long enough and you say them both :)

Andy Griffith refers to it as "Supper" on the show. I say "dinner," but there's something about the word "supper" that is more comforting. Southern hospitality I guess.

-EarlJam

[dukehoopsgirl]

I call it dinner now, because it's our big meal of the day. But....as a kid, lunch was always dinner (and nighttime was supper) because my grandmother made her big meal of the day at lunchtime. Clear as mud?! I grew up in Northern New Hampshire and we called it supper there, so it can't be just a southern term. :-)

[TNTDevil]

A much more suthin' term would be...

Victuals, pronounced, of course, as "vittles".

Speaking of vittles and tying in two, possibly three, other threads...

Ellie May Clampett!

Oh yeah.

[DevilAlumna]

I'm with DukeHoopsGirl, in that Dinner refers more to the "big" meal of the day.

So, in my mom's household, Sunday Dinner was lunchtime, and we had a light supper; but during the week, we had Dinner together in the evening.

No wonder I'm so mixed up.... :rolleyes:


As for Dipper (dinner+supper) tonight, I think we're gonna have us some Mexican food and margaritas. It's just one of those days, perfect for sitting on a patio and having some tasty chips, salsa, and tequila!

[rthomas]

A much more suthin' term would be...

Victuals, pronounced, of course, as "vittles".

Speaking of vittles and tying in two, possibly three, other threads...

Ellie May Clampett!

Oh yeah.

Ellie May or Granny?

[TNTDevil]

Ellie May or Granny? But I will...

Granny or Barbara Bush?

[rthomas]

But I will...

Granny or Barbara Bush?

I guess Granny, but only becasue she made moonshine and could shoot a gun.:)

[EarlJam]

Ellie May or Granny?


FYI - I just vomited.


-EarlJam

[DevilAlumna]

But I will...

Granny or Barbara Bush?

Someone's not been to the Public Policy Board:

http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3042

That thread, IIRC, spawned the other OT thread.

[EarlJam]

But I will...

Granny or Barbara Bush?

Barbara Bush. She's still alive.

-Earljam

[TNTDevil]

I guess Granny, but only becasue she made moonshine and could shoot a gun.:)... Granny wouldn't allow her son to be like Georgie Jr.

[rthomas]

Barbara Bush. She's still alive.

-Earljam

Good point.

[EarlJam]

Good point.

I suppose, given the right mood, the alternative could be.........nevermind.

[JBDuke]

Ellie May or Granny?

NO NO NO!!! - It's not a choice between Ellie May and Granny - it's Ellie May and Miss Jane. Now, unless you're Jethro, that choice is a pretty easy one, IMO....

[BlueDevilBaby]

Lunch and dinner when I'm at home in DC and dinner and supper when I'm with the cousins in AR. Of course, while in AR, we eat a full dinner at lunchtime and more of snack at supper time. I believe I prefer the dinner and supper approach myself.

[TNTDevil]

NO NO NO!!! - It's not a choice between Ellie May and Granny - it's Ellie May and Miss Jane. Now, unless you're Jethro, that choice is a pretty easy one, IMO....Wouldn't the equivalency scale be: Granny or Miss Jane? Or even Mrs. Drysdale?

[colchar]

DevilAlumna, this one's for you!

That event you have around 6:00 - 8:00 at night where you eat a meal? Do you call it Dinner or Supper?

The poll needs another option...either.

[mapei]

Called it supper growing up, call it dinner now. And I almost never eat it between 6 and 8 - usually between 8 and 9.

[hc5duke]

I almost never eat it between 6 and 8 - usually between 8 and 9.

Me too - I get home around 7, cook, then by the time I eat it's way past 8. Left over nights I probably eat between 7 and 8

[4decadedukie]

Lunch and dinner when I'm at home in DC and dinner and supper when I'm with the cousins in AR. Of course, while in AR, we eat a full dinner at lunchtime and more of snack at supper time. I believe I prefer the dinner and supper approach myself.

I subscribe to BDB's comment.

[dukemomLA]

Usually DINNER for us 'northern & currently SoCal folk.' Although Sunday supper comes to mind. During the week, it is always referred to as dinner, but....on Sundays (and occasionally Saturdays), the final meal is supper.

[captmojo]

I had to vote - neither - due to the confusion.
Nowadays we just yell "FOOD!" and the little piggies run to the trough.

[Bob Green]

Supper! In the south, dinner is eaten once a week - on Sunday - after church.