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Sat 7 Aug, 2004 12:08 am
What is the difference between supper and dinner?
They're synonyms and both are used to convey the same chief meal, unless I'm missing something.
I consider "supper" quite a bit more southern than "dinner".
They're both the same. I was reared in Wisconsin, and we called it supper.
Breakfast, lunch, and supper or dinner.
American consider a midday meal lunch and an evening meal dinner and that is the way here with us.But when it comes to supper, it is an early evening meal like high tea.What I understand is that there is a difference between lunch and dinner, then how come that some people call a midday meal dinner? ( British)
Actually, in the south, Louisiana at least, dinner was the term used for the mid-day meal and supper the term used for the evening meal. I was born in the north but had many relatives in the south and the lunch/dinner thing was always a source of confusion for my brother when we visited as kids.
Actually, this differs in the USA and the UK.
In the UK, luncheon is a rather "posh" term for a midday meal.
The evening meal is called Tea/High Tea/Supper - when it is a lighter meal.
A 'real' meal at evenings is called dinner, while a supper is a snack before you go to bed.
(I like especially this, when I stayed as young boy in England - and disliked it later, because my guest parents always waited with their supper until I returned at night :wink: )
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