OT: On this seemingly slow day, may I take this time to ask meal questions?

[OhioLion]

I believe the meal we consume after rising from our sleep is consistently called breakfast.
What I am curious about is what the next meal of the day will be called? What meal are you eating at mid-day around the noon hour?
Are you having lunch or dinner?
When arrive home this evening and assist in the preparation of the evening meal, are you preparing your supper or dinner?

Like the PA foods and what different regions call the carbonated beverage we drink, I think meals also have a different label.

OL

 

[WDLion]

I believe the meal we consume after rising from our sleep is consistently called breakfast.
What I am curious about is what the next meal of the day will be called? What meal are you eating at mid-day around the noon hour?
Are you having lunch or dinner?
When arrive home this evening and assist in the preparation of the evening meal, are you preparing your supper or dinner?

Like the PA foods and what different regions call the carbonated beverage we drink, I think meals also have a different label.

OL

Breakfast, dinner and supper.
Never heard of a lunch bell.

 

[Nitt1300]

• 7:00am – Breakfast
• 9:00am – Second Breakfast
• 11:00am – Elevenses
• 1:00pm – Luncheon
• 4:00pm – Afternoon Tea
• 6:00pm – Dinner
• 8:00pm – Supper

 

[Gnat91]

I've always called it breakfast, lunch, dinner. The first time I heard my dad say "supper". I had no idea what he was talking about. I've also heard him call lunch "dinner".

 

[Gnat91]

Breakfast, dinner and supper.
Never heard of a lunch bell.

You never took lunch money to school?

 

[OhioLion]

Breakfast
Lunch M-Sat
Dinner was Sunday's noon meal
Supper when at home
Dinner if going out

My mom explained that dinner was normally your big meal of the day, but we will referred to it as supper. Whatever it may be, don't call me late for it.

OL

 

[WDLion]

You never took lunch money to school?

Dinner bucket.

 

[psuro]

Breakfast lunch and dinner.

I always equated "supper" with a very light meal well - maybe a small cup of soup or salad, well after the 3rd big meal of the day. And it was only if you were feeling puckish.

 

[PSU2UNC]

I eat brunch, linner and fourth meal.

Nobody in the 21st century eats "supper."

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

• Breakfast - 7am.
• Second breakfast - 9 am.
• Elevenses - 11 am.
• Lunch - 1 pm.
• Afternoon tea - 3pm.
• Dinner - 6 pm.
• Supper - 9 pm.

 

[WDLion]

I eat brunch, linner and fourth meal.

Nobody in the 21st century eats "supper."

Many churches, fire departments and other organizations in my area have suppers and they are held in the evening.

 

[sluggo72]

For me, Breakfast, Lunch, happy hour, Dinner
but for one of my neighbors he had Breakfast, Dinner, Supper. He ate his 'hot' or big meal during the middle of the day and called it Dinner, and they when he came home from work he just ate a Sammy or whatever and it was Supper.

 

[psu1969a]

Dinner is the main meal of the day.

Supper an evening meal, typically a light or informal one.

 

[rudedude]

 

[Nitwit97]

I call lunch “dinner” and get reprimanded by my English major wife that the mid day meal is lunch and the evening meal is dinner. The next day? I call it dinner again.

 

[Roar More]

When I first started work, a coworker originally from MS, invited me to his house for dinner with his family on Saturday. We were both living in Western PA. We never discussed a time. I showed up around 4:00 pm and couldn't understand why he had been so worried about me. Seems he had expected me around noon. (This was way before the existence of cell phones.)

 

[PSU2UNC]

Many churches, fire departments and other organizations in my area have suppers and they are held in the evening.

Can I use your time machine when you are done with it? ;-)

(I'm just giving folks a hard time. But in the U.S. supper is NOT common usage, and most commonly dinner refers to the evening meal, not the biggest meal of the day. Language can be used in different ways by different people and that's OK, but don't expect to be understood when you are using non-standard terms).

 

[psuro]

• Breakfast - 7am.
• Second breakfast - 9 am.
• Elevenses - 11 am.
• Lunch - 1 pm.
• Afternoon tea - 3pm.
• Dinner - 6 pm.
• Supper - 9 pm.

Per Mick Jagger - I got nasty habits, I take tea at 3....

 

[gamblepsu]

Breakast -- Lunch -- Supper

Whichever is the biggest can be called Dinner.

 

[Air Force 1]

Growing up in PA I called the 2nd meal dinner then supper (3rd meal). But after living/traveling all over I now call it lunch then dinner.

 

[PS4814]

Me - breakfast, lunch, dinner

My elder pa dutchy generations - breakfast, dinner, supper

Bonus fact: I did not fully experience the meal called "brunch" until moving into east halls and going to the commons for food on Sundays.

 

[CF LION]

 

[sluggo72]

My Cousin Vinnie(y)?

 

[CF LION]

My Cousin Vinnie(y)?

You are correct sir.

 

[91Joe95]

Quickie, breakfast, nooner, lunch, afternoon delight, dinner, watch sports, nightcap, snack

 

[IANit]

I generally use breakfast, lunch and dinner, though I sometimes refer to dinner as supper.

 

[STPGopherfan]

Many churches, fire departments and other organizations in my area have suppers and they are held in the evening.

Supper clubs have supper as well.

 

[WDLion]

Supper clubs have supper as well.

In 1940 they advertised 1130 WJJD-AM as "The Largest Independent radio Station in the Nation."It was probably even true at 20,000 watts over Chicago. Some announcers left WLW for slots at WJJD. They claimed the radio station was founded by the Loyal Order of Moose.. that might have been true as well. They did a lot of public service programming which was important to their image.. Unsurprisingly their sports programming was wildly more popular. But what has proved the most enduring was the Suppertime Frolic.


Billboard dismissed the program as "...a popular program for rural consumption, patched up to sell a number of products, most of them patent medicines." Ouch. It had been founded by A&R man Ken Nelson later famously of Capitol records. Early on it was hosted by announcer and emcee Uncle Ervin Viktor, the program was panned by city press.
The program aired Monday through Saturday from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/supper (interchangeable)

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/supper (interchangeable)

I concur!

 

[PSU73]

The steel workers in my youth south of Pittsburgh who worked night shifts, would eat a big meal at the end of the shift at 7am. They were also in a number of cases sitting in bars pounding down IC, Tech, Duke, etc. That was their “after work” time.

 

[PSU73]

A friend I went to PSU with never ate a lunch at midday. When he’d return from classes he’d eat what he called ‘lupper’, and dinner later. It was something his family used to joke about. Had never heard it since. Anyone else hear it?

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

It's really culturally very interesting if not completely unique; in the States, your big meal of the day is typically called 'dinner' - it's not really related to 'when' you actually eat it (for example, we always eat Thanksgiving 'dinner' around 2pm). In other cultures, the meal name and time of day are important - in German, 'Mittagspause' is lunch and literally means 'mid-day pause'; in Japanese, all three meals correspond to the time of day they are eaten (Breakfast 朝食 "choh-shoku" 朝 means "morning" and 食 means "meal", Lunch 昼食 "chuh-shoku" 昼 means "noon", Supper 夕食 "yuh-shoku" 夕 means "evening.")

 

[Ohio_Pirate]

I've lived in Ohio my whole life - this thread is seriously the first time I have EVER heard the noon time meal referred to as dinner. I'm legitimately shocked that is a real thing people say.
Dinner and supper are pretty interchangeable for the evening meal.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

 

[LafayetteBear]

• 7:00am – Breakfast
• 9:00am – Second Breakfast
• 11:00am – Elevenses
• 1:00pm – Luncheon
• 4:00pm – Afternoon Tea
• 6:00pm – Dinner
• 8:00pm – Supper

Thank you, Master Peregrin.

 

[hagberg]

I concur!

As do I, which pretty much seals it!

Now, if you want to add second breakfast, elevenses, afternoon tea, then split dinner and supper into two separate meals, I'm in!