Do you say dinner or supper??

Question

Do you say dinner or supper??

Answer 1

They are really interchangeable these days but:

I use supper for the everyday meals

  

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I use dinner for the more formal times like when we have guests or on holidays, etc.

Answer 2

We say dinner for the meal about 6:00 pm (also called tea), and supper is a snack before bed.

Answer 3

depends on what time I am eating. I eat four meals a day.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Supper.

Answer 4

I would rather dine than sup, so it's breakfast, brunch, lunch, & dinner.

Answer 5

Around here Dinner is the largest meal of the day. If you eat dinner at noon then you have supper at night. If you have dinner at night then it was lunch at noon.

Answer 6

it really depends on where you live and where you've grown up.

i say dinner,

but my grandparents ( who live in the north) say supper

i live in TX

it's really up to you.

Answer 7

I like using both, because variety is the spice of life!! :-)

Answer 8

depends what time you eat it,i say supper is the last meal before bed, and normally something light,depends where youre from too i think,as to what its called,.

Answer 9

I say dinner or tea, which is a British (or maybe just Norfolk) thing.

Answer 10

In our home, the last (evening) meal is dinner, unless it is on Sunday or a holiday when we might eat early, then dinner would be the main meal and we might have supper ( a small meal) later on.  Sprechen se Duetch?

Answer 11

I use both.

Answer 12

i say dinner!!

Answer 13

I have always said dinner :)

Answer 14

I say dinner... isn't supper what people used to call lunch?

Answer 15

When it's with the Family I say Dinner and just part of the Family I say Supper

Answer 16

dinner, supper sounds Amish.

Answer 17

HEY I was just about to ask this question!

I actually say both.  For some strange reason, I tend to say dinner if we eat earlier and supper if we eat later.... I dont know why, I jsut do

Answer 18

dinner

Answer 19

food time

din din

dinner

Answer 20

Lunch is at noontime, and supper is in the evening. But "dinner" is a large more formal meal, whether it is served at noon or in the evening.

Answer 21

I say dinner. To me, supper is something people use to say... until they started saying dinner...

Answer 22

its all according, this is how itgoes for me

Breakfast

Dinner

Supper

Answer 23

supper