Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?
Growing up in Alabama, we mostly had breakfast, lunch, and supper. If either lunch or supper was somehow bigger and fancier than normal, it magically became dinner.
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Susan W. - Feb 17, 2005 11:42:56 am PST #8655 of 10002
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tommyrot - Feb 17, 2005 11:43:05 am PST #8656 of 10002
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Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?
Gave the family a chance to come in and relax in the middle of the hottest part of the day, eat themselves stupid and then go back out to burn it off. Supper was a light meal in the evening.
But in our family, the third meal of the day was always the big meal, no matter what we called it.
ChiKat - Feb 17, 2005 11:44:42 am PST #8657 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Growing up in Alabama, we mostly had breakfast, lunch, and supper. If either lunch or supper was somehow bigger and fancier than normal, it magically became dinner.
Yep, me, too.
sarameg - Feb 17, 2005 11:45:26 am PST #8658 of 10002
For mom's family, grandpa (& whoever else was out in the fields) very often didn't come back to the house for supper. They took dinner leftovers out into the fields after dinner and that became supper for them.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 17, 2005 11:48:03 am PST #8659 of 10002
What is even happening?
I think my folks' families must have used different words in the lunch/dinner/supper shuffle, because I will use dinner for either lunch or supper, but I also use the words lunch and supper, for lunch and supper. Clearly, I need more food.
I'd prefer to have the larger meal at midday, and a lighter meal in the evening, but then I'd never cook for my dh.
Betsy HP - Feb 17, 2005 11:48:08 am PST #8660 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yup. The only dinners in my family are Sunday dinner, Christmas dinner, and Thanksgiving dinner, all of which take place in mid-afternoon.
Stephanie - Feb 17, 2005 11:50:09 am PST #8661 of 10002
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We always had breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but I grew up in Minnesota. I'm pretty much always eat three meals a day, unless I'm under a lot of stress. I just feel wrong if I don't.
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Gudanov - Feb 17, 2005 11:55:15 am PST #8662 of 10002
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-t - Feb 17, 2005 11:56:08 am PST #8663 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But in our family, the third meal of the day was always the big meal, no matter what we called it.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 17, 2005 12:21:24 pm PST #8664 of 10002
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Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?
In Arkansas dinner was kind of interchangeable with lunch or supper, although it tended to refer to the latter more. My family always had the big meal in the evening, but I'm tending to larger lunches (take-out) and smaller suppers (soup, sandwiches) these days.