You moran, its all about the time

I had supper at my grandmas house and then walked home for dinner after at my house.

This is what my grandma told me when I asked.

Dinner is for people who eat their last meal of the day at 5 or 6pm
Supper is for people who eat their last meal of the day at 8pm (which we did)

I had a chick spread her legs and tell me dinner is served.  Since this was before I finished in her I'm going to say that supper is the correct term for eating a whil after dinner.

In the trades the old timers called their lunchboxes "dinner buckets"

Not if they were "brown bagging" it.
On a side note, the pail in lunch pail was also used to carry beer.

Do y'all have second supper? It's usually around 11:30pm to 1am.

Born and raised in Lancaster county and my parents always called it supper.

Dinner is largest meal of day after breakfast.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Breakfast, dinner, supper.

In the above you had largest meal last then second.

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Supper is soup you eat before bed.

dinner is the big meal regardless of what time of day.  my in-laws have breakfast, dinner and supper... with the mid day meal being their biggest meal.  my family has breakfast, lunch and dinner... with the final meal being the the biggest meal of the day.

Red Neck Noise

-Junior

The words Dinner and supper are interchangeable in NH

this right here

North and south.

In my family dinner was lunch and supper was what we ate on Thanksgiving.

All I know is that I got to supper clubs to eat my dinner

All the old fellas called them grub box.

Lol no. Dinner and supper are the same thing

We got some confused mofos up in this biyotch!

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

The rest of ya'll are soulless hillbillies!

All joking aside, it really is a location thing. North, South, East, West all have a different way of life, and vocabulary.

two kinds of people, hillbillies and assholes

Screen name is appropriate

And will agree with your statement, been called worse.

I'm shanty Irish and my family called it supper my whole life. My wife is lace curtain Irish, and she despises the word supper.

Supper is the correct name for the evening meal, dinner is lunch, around noon.

Jesus held the Last Supper the evening before his trial and crucifixion.  Not the Last Dinner.

So true!

My dad is from far northern Maine, been gone from there since the early 70s.  He still sometimes calls lunch dinner and dinner supper.  He's never really been able to explain why it's like that, he just says that's how it was when he was a kid.

Dinner is served at 5:00PM.

Supper is served at 7:00PM.

Blue collar versus white collar timing of the last meal of the day.

For most of history dinner was at midday, with supper being a light meal later.
Being mostly agrarian in the early days the US made supper the big meal as people were out in the fields at dinnertime.

I think a lot of you guys are pretty smart. The rest are fags.

I like where this is going:

-Breakfast
-Brunch
-Lunch
-Linner
-Dinner
-Supper

I feel really full just thinking about it.

It’s a super supper or a dandy dinner…your choice.

When I weight 135 pounds and ate 8000 calories a day to not lose weight, I ate five meals. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and supper. Supper is the last one.

but when is Chow Time?

A lot of older people here call lunch (dinner) and the evening meal is supper.

According to my germanic agricultural roots on the prairies of the upper plains, the daily meals were served as follows.

5:00am Coffee often served with a small roll or pastry.
           
6:30am Breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon, pancakes and sausage.
           
9:00am Lunch always consisting of tea with cookies or homemade oven made treats known as "bars" i.e. peanut butter bars covered with chocolate, or fruit bars, etc.
           
12:00 noon Dinner full mid-day meal comprised of the entire food pyramid.
         
3:00pm - 4:00pm Lunch  same sort of items as the morning lunch break.
           
6:00pm-7:00pm Supper  Full pyramidal meal
           
9:00pm-10:00pm Evening Treat   In my case was nearly always ice cream and leftover pie or "bars"

My grandfather was adamant about this feeding schedule, especially tea at morning lunch for a reason I never knew. Lunches, both morning and afternoon were delivered to the field year round except in the winter. Of course this schedule shrunk or expanded, time wise, based on the season due to sunrise/ sunset times. Suppertime would sometimes be delayed until later in summer months if work required it. But mealtimes were overall extremely punctual.

You may thinking that is a lot of calories in the course of a day and you would be correct. I think it is a legacy effect from when farming was extremely labor intensive where one would burn copious amounts of energy throughout the day.  This tradition of eating carried into the modernization of farming which contributes to obesity in farmers today. I don't remember seeing any fat farmers in the seventies, but by the mid eighties I noticed the expansion of beltlines. Another contributing factor was the pride and servitude of those serving these meals. Farmers wives and daughters took a great deal of pride in their craft, especially if neighbors were over to help on projects, etc. Some of the most delicious meals were served on a tailgate of a pickup or around a large wood table on linoleum.

As a sidenote, the term "brunch" was invented by slovenly "cityfolk" too lazy, drunk, or hungover to get their asses out of bed to make it to morning coffee,breakfast or morning lunch and their tender tummies couldn't hold out untiil dinner.    

Dinner and supper are borrowed words from French.  Diner and souper.  They're used in differently depending on location and age, just like in the US.

I grew up in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. Lots of dairy farms and agriculture. Dinner was always a large meal at noonish and supper was generally lighter fare served some time after the sun went down.

Except dinner need not be in the evening, it's often early afternoon.

You can have supper after a dinner, but you wouldn't have dinner after supper.

The people who then twist this to suggest the sandwich they bring to the jobsite to eat at noon is "dinner" are just retarded. Then again, odds are they also think a 7-up is a Coke.

This I how I was raised.

Our family farm still has morning and noon lunches too and my coffee's poured at 5AM daily. Lunch is a bar or cookie, small sandwich, more coffee usually. My great grandparents always had coffee in the field, even if it was a hundred degrees outside. They said if you were hot you needed to drink hot coffee to help you swear so you'd cool off

well, one is midday and one is evening

we'd have never won dubya dubya 2 without knowing the difference...

monica!

Dinner is a meal between 12:00 and 14:00

Supper is a snack at around 21:00, usually cheese and crackers or some toast

What happens between 1400 and 2100? Just drinking?

It’s an age thing to , when we were kids it was always supper . Always . Mom and dad are from rural Indiana .

I enjoy calling it supper now just to annoy my kids

Dinner is the evening meal, and occasionally is an earlier meal if its a holiday (i.e. Christmas dinner and Easter dinner are sometimes in the afternoon)
Supper is an archaic term for dinner.

  Well, we also regret the unfortunate time you were here.
 Midday meal is lunch or dinner, evening meal is supper. Never heard evening meal called dinner till I went to boot camp.

Supper is the evening meal.

Dinner is an arbitrary time in the south.

For instance:

Take your car to the mechanic and ask, "when do you think it'll be ready?"

Mechanic says, "Ah, come back bout dinner."

Lunch is the noon meal.  Supper and dinner are both the evening meal.