What do you call the two main meals of the day, lunch and dinner,or dinner and supper?!


Question: Where I am people use both terms. It seems to be most all older people call the three meals breakfast, dinner and supper. Younger and middle age use the terms breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Sometimes you have to ask if the "dinner" you are being invited to is noon or evening.


Answers: Where I am people use both terms. It seems to be most all older people call the three meals breakfast, dinner and supper. Younger and middle age use the terms breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Sometimes you have to ask if the "dinner" you are being invited to is noon or evening.

lunch and dinner

i thought it was breakfast and dinner...hmm...

brunch and duncher

Dinner and Tea

lunch and dinner

lunch and dinner. I personaly don't know of anyone who calls it supper.

lunch and supper

lunch and dinner, NJ

Gday
i call them, Lunch and Tea...

dinner supper

I use to call it dinner and supper on Sundays and lunch and supper the other days of the week.My husband calls it lunch and dinner so I have switched to that.I think it depends on what part of the counrty you are from.

So my options are:

1) Lunch and dinner
2) Dinner and supper

What's the difference between dinner and supper??

if at 12 pm lunch and dinner but if have lye in dinner and supper depends when u get up

lunch and supper... I guess I'm weird since that wasn't one of your options. Sometimes I call supper dinner, but usually it's supper. :)

I call them lunch and dinner, but traditionally (19th century or thereabouts) lunch was an upper class affair, manual workers had dinner in the middle of the day. High class urban people who got up late had supper after the opera or theatre very late. Of course if you lived in England, high tea was the meal served early in the evening, if you stayed up later, you had supper. Supper comes from the French word "souper" which indicates the last meal of the day containing... guess what... soup... but in the time of the Belle Epoque (late 19th early 20th century) a souper was often a romantic rendez vous in a secluded restaurant alcove... Actually your question is quite complicated to answer, it depends a lot on the time, the culture, and family tradition.

dinner and tea

Um, we dont call it either of them. We say Lunch and Supper.

lunch
use both supper and dinner except when dinning with royalty LOL

Lunch and dinner, I'm from the mid-west.

Well the people in the south call the main meals of the day dinner which means lunch at 12 pm and supper which is in the evening like around 5 or so....

lunch and dinner

lunch & dinner... i'm from the south.

I call them breakfast & dinner; your way would be lunch & dinner.

Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
In my day, I usually only get around to lunch and dinner.
I don't like breakfast very much.
But sometime I have a snack if I am REALLY hungry. :)





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