So "supper" is just like "lunch" in terms of a-meal-eaten-on-a-certain-time, and "dinner" can replace either when it specifies the large meal of the day?

Yep! And, to quote the immortal Snoopy:

It's suppertime!
Oh, yes, it's suppertime!
And when suppertime comes
Can supper be far away?

Bruch is a fun portmwhateveryacallit, but breakfast is one of our more poetic words for ordinary tasks.

Lee,

Insent. Also, you'll see I cc'd someone. That's just me I cc'd. I meant to note it in the body of the email, so you'd have my more reliable address.

I've always thought the word breakfast has a certain poetry to it that the other meals lack.

Me too. It means something, rather that just being a label.

Oh, come on -- "brunch" is a beautiful word!

No! Brunch implies one less meal!

Oh, indeed. I would never slight Teh Brunch. But that's a different sort of thing.

Brunch implies one less meal!

But what a lovely meal!

Though it's become lazy. Or maybe it's just that I can never do brunch before noon these days.

"Supper" does mean something--it's not its fault that we don't use "to sup" instead of "to eat" anymore.

That's just me I cc'd. I meant to note it in the body of the email, so you'd have my more reliable address.

Oops. I didn't notice, and replied to the first address.

I just tried the Chantico, and I was right -- it was Way Too Much for me. That one sip was OK, but I couldn't have a second.

it's not its fault that we don't use "to sup" instead of "to eat" anymore.

With my kids, sitting down to dinner definitely does not mean that eating will actually take place.