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meyers7

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Depends on what you have, not when. Dinner is a sit down "big" meal. Not associated with time of day. Such that Sunday Dinner is usually at lunch. Supper is just the evening meal. It can be dinner also, depending on what/who is being served, or how formal it is.

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What's for supper? Probably just leftovers, maybe I'll have a bowl of cereal.

What's for dinner? The Jones are coming over and we are having roast duck before we play bridge.
 

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Assuming you're referring to the evening meal. Growing up in suburban Connecticut, it was generally referred to as dinner. It's the same here in western Wisconsin.

When I was an 4-H agent in Aroostook County, Maine, the noon-time meal was called supper and dinner was the evening meal.
 
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Assuming you're referring to the evening meal. Growing up in suburban Connecticut, it was generally referred to as dinner. It's the same here in western Wisconsin.

When I was an 4-H agent in Aroostook County, Maine, the noon-time meal was called supper and dinner was the evening meal.

Not at my grandparents farm near Edgerton. Dinner was midday and supper was in the evening.
 

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If you're out and about New York it certainly depends on when.

A good sized meal after the opera is Supper.

A big sit-down at 7:30 in one of your fav restaurants is Dinner.

I remember my family in the Jewish neighborhoods of the North Bronx referring to the evening meal as supper but his idea of Chinese food was sub-gum Chow Mein and I don't remember even trying Pizza as a child.

Oh, in New Zealand it was having "Tea."
 

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Not at my grandparents farm near Edgerton. Dinner was midday and supper was in the evening.

Cal - they're not far enough west! I'm on the border with Minnesota! :p
 
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Dinner is midday and supper is in the evening. Lunch is a smallerish dinner.
 

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Lunch and dinner at midday differentiated by the meal, sandwiches or full Sunday meal at 1:00 or 2:00pm. Evening meal was supper.
 

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Andy Rooney always said Republicans had dinner, Democrats had supper.
 

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Our cat and dog call it all "Din Din." Or at least that is what they respond to when called.
 

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Growing up, the evening meal was supper; dinner was the big meal of the day.

Now, I don't think I use supper much at all; dinner is the evening meal.
 

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As a kid the evening meal was supper and the mid day meal was lunch. Now it's lunch and dinner. When I occasionally slip and call the evening meal supper my wife will correct me. :(
 

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If you're out and about New York it certainly depends on when.

A good sized meal after the opera is Supper.

A big sit-down at 7:30 in one of your fav restaurants is Dinner.

I remember my family in the Jewish neighborhoods of the North Bronx referring to the evening meal as supper but his idea of Chinese food was sub-gum Chow Mein and I don't remember even trying Pizza as a child.

Oh, in New Zealand it was having "Tea."

Yes, my yuppie son who works in Manhattan and lives in Westchester sends me to my room without getting to eat my , hmm. whatever it's called, if I use the word supper in reference to the evening meal. Growing up as the child of parents who suffered through the Great Depression, we called the evening meal supper, but really didn't care what someone called it so long as there was something good to eat. If we went out to eat, it was going out for dinner. I think people who don't have much to eat don't give a rotten tomato what the meal is called.
 

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Not at my grandparents farm near Edgerton. Dinner was midday and supper was in the evening.



It was the same in my small town in SE Kansas.
 
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For me Supper is the meal that occurs between 5:00PM and 6:00PM, Dinner, on the other hand, is the meal eaten after 6:30PM up to and including 10:30PM. No one eats between 6:00PM and 6:30PM that is when cocktail's are served.
 

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Dawn to 9:00 am = Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:30 am = Brunch
11:30 am - 2:00 pm = Lunch
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm = Lunner
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm = Dinner
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm = Supper
10:00 pm to Bedtime = Munchies (usually associated with apres drinks)
 
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Less formal with just family it was supper, anymore formal or more of a lavish meal or guests it was dinner. Gramps use to call lunch, dinner.(his biggest meal of the day). He rarely ate heavy toward the end of his day.
 
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Dawn to 9:00 am = Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:30 am = Brunch
11:30 am - 2:00 pm = Lunch
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm = Lunner
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm = Dinner
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm = Supper
10:00 pm to Bedtime = Munchies (usually associated with apres drinks)
We call lunner 'linner'
 
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