Is it Dinner or Supper?

[Bob Stepp]

What do you call your evening meal?.....your noon meal?
Being raised on a farm in North Central Texas the noon meal was dinner and the evening meal was supper. Lunch was a sandwich you took to school or something you ate in the shade of a Cottonwood tree at the edge of the hay field. If you were near the house at noon, there was a meal...not a snack.

[Bob Stepp]

Right. Robbie.....lunch was what we had if for some reason dinner wasn't available, and...lunch was pretty much just a snack of some sort.

[Jaylee53]

That must be why I think of it that way....USAF...or just my East coast parents...

[Stir Young]

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner or Supper (pretty much interchangable terms up this way)

[Quinn]

Lunch is the noonish meal no matter what you eat or how much or how little.
Dinner is the evening meal.

And, brunch is just wrong--if you're hunrgy for eggs, eat breakfast, if it's cold cuts you want, eat lunch...

[Bob Stepp]

We always figured if you ate "dinner" around dark-thirty you were from the 'city"

[Quinn]

Dark thirty--I like that!
My boss quits at 4:30, or as he fondly refers to it--beer thirty.

p.s.--I'm from the "city" ;-)

[Bob Stepp]

I won't hold that against you....;-D

[Quinn]

Thank you! *huge sigh of relief* ;-))

[Aggie]

Breakfast, dinner at noon, lunch at 3pm and supper at dark.

[Bob Stepp]

That works...

[Goldilocks46]

Breakfast
Brunch (if we're too late for breakfast)
Lunch
Supper or Dinner

[d's girl]

I grew up knowing both sets of these, Bob.
I grew up in white collar 'burbs, where it was breakfast, lunch & dinner.
But my grandparents still followed the "farm" ways of breakfast, our 'big' meal was an early afternoon 'dinner'
& then 'supper' was a light evening meal.