Do you call it lunch & dinner, or lunch & supper?

ok .. just to confuse you ...

when I was growing up in Southern New South Wales in Australia... the midday meal was called DINNER

the evening meal was called TEA

and a snack later in the evening was called SUPPER

BUT I now call the Midday meal Lunch

the evening meal DINNER ( sometimes Tea still)

and I don't have that snack anymore...

Interesting Question....

I grew up in the ranch lands of the Great Plains, near the Colorado Rockies.

There, the noon meal was dinner with meat, potatoes, veggies and bread, and the evening meal was supper much like dinner, but with dessert.

"Lunch" was reserved for a light meal on a day when we were not exerting much physical effort.

We've lived all over the south and southwest. Lunch and supper are the most common names given those meals in our experience.

Our daughter-in-law is from outside the USA. She normally fixes a larger meal with soup, a protien dish, and veggies at noon, and supper is a much lighter meal of a salad and fruit or soup and a salad. She calls them all "meals." "The meal is ready."

I tend to think of an informal evening meal with family (and maybe close friends) as supper. "Dinner" to me generally implies something more formal....I know I would say I have attended countless "dinners" or "dinner parties" over the past 15 years or so.

When I was at school, I am fairly sure that some of the kids I grew up with would refer to lunch as "dinner"....but I don't think I ever did.

I have always lived in England....but my mother is originally from New England.

Breakfast

Lunch

tea

When we lived in Springfield we called it supper, then when we moved up near Chicago we heard everyone call it dinner, so now we say dinner.

Oh, and my relatives in North Carolina call lunch dinner, y'all.

When I was a kid we called it lunch and supper, now it's lunch and dinner :)

In the olden days, the midday day meal was usually the heartiest and called "dinner." Lighter, evening meals were called "supper." I think it's kind of a generational distinction nowadays.

Ha Ha . Here we say eats . Really we say lunch time & supper time .

Mostly we just say eats . Right about now i have a huge pot of stew & dumplings ready for Bri when he gets in the door .

House smells so good . Hugs K Girl . D :)

Lunch & dinner.

Lunch and dinner.