Was reading another post and dinner time was brought up, it got me thinking. When I was a kid things were more relaxed during the work day. Lunch was mid morning and mid afternoon, coffee time basicly. Dinner was the noon meal and supper was the evening meal. I've noticed that the east coast folks call "dinner" lunch and supper "dinner". That may happen in other parts of the country also but it seems that the language is changing and coming to the midwest more and more. I read something my great great grandad had written and this would be back in the '20's or '30's. He said it was so refreshing to see folks still calling it dinner instead of lunch. Our local preacher is from N.J. and said it took him a long time to get used to the way we say things as the older generation calls it one thing and the younger another. I guess it doesn't matter as long as you don't miss a good meal. :lol:
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I am in NJ. The non-farm people ate lunch and dinner because their big meal was in the evening when they got home from their job. The farm people ate dinner and supper because the mid-day meal was the big one. Funny when two old neighbors who have lived next to each other for decades (one farm and one non-farm) can still confuse each other as to when they are eating what . . .
Around here we call 12:00 lunch and 5:00 or so dinner, or
supper,.however a few years ago I worker with a guy at a
horse farm, when the barn crew would stop for " lunch" he
was the only one I ever met that would call it dinner. Like u
sad its different all over, but as long as it's a good meal!
supper,.however a few years ago I worker with a guy at a
horse farm, when the barn crew would stop for " lunch" he
was the only one I ever met that would call it dinner. Like u
sad its different all over, but as long as it's a good meal!
Stan - Florida
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My wife's uncle, at 88 or so, still calls the noon meal "dinner". He once invited my sister-in-law, who converted to big city ways, over for dinner. When she wasn't there by 1:00 PM, he called her to find out what was wrong. She showed up at 5:00 PM.
I like to say, "Where I come from, dinner's at noon, stock's in the field, and engineers drive trains".
Stan
I like to say, "Where I come from, dinner's at noon, stock's in the field, and engineers drive trains".
Stan
Deere Scotty
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In this house its breakfast at 3:30pm. I work 5pm - 3:30am Monday - Thursday. I cant stand to eat straight out of bed either so I wait till at least an hour before work. Its 3:29 right now, & I have Garden beans on the stove, & a Broccoli Caserole with fresh garden broccoli coming out of the oven as soon I finish this story!
Janicholson
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Dinner Bell (top of windmill) rang at 11:30 AM and Dinner was served at 1/4 till the hour. Supper was after milking (hand milked, no machine) at 6PM. late was excused by not getting anything unless you were doing a calving or such, then you were really fed when you got their. Jim
I think it still all goes back to where the ansestors came from as well as a lot of the other terms. Dinner at noon came with the German imigrants and where they settled while dinner in the evening came from the English speeking areas of the old country. You notice the one that said dinner in evening was from where the English settled while the others I think had more of a german connection.
ShadetreeRet
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I think Leroy makes a good point concerning ancestry and terminology. I have always found it interesting that no matter where you go in this country, you will find things called by different names. What I don't like is hearing someone being ridiculed just because they use a different name.
Geo-TH,In
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When you were a kid in school and before the invention of a cafiteria, did you carry your lunch or a dinner to school?
Have you heard of a supper club or a dinner club?
Point is, people have been confused for a long time about what to call the noon and the evening meal reguardless where you are from.
Momma never had to call me twice for any meal!
Have you heard of a supper club or a dinner club?
Point is, people have been confused for a long time about what to call the noon and the evening meal reguardless where you are from.
Momma never had to call me twice for any meal!
Motorcraftman
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Yeeeep' it's Supper alright... of the Evening meal... At least in N. Ga.. LOL!! Larry
Motorcraftman
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And Oh Ya' in the Bible it is the Lords Supper, Not Dinner... that kinda clarifies it don't ya think. LOL Larry
It varies in the east coast. When I was a kid in northern New Jersey, the mid-day meal was "lunch" and evening meal was "dinner." When I later lived in northern Vermont and central New York, the mid-day meal was "dinner" and evening meal was "supper." First place I went to work in Vermont - my boss asked me if I'd brought a dinner-pail with me - and I thought he was nuts.
The original meaning of "lunch" is a light meal inbetween bigger meals. So for many, that meaning fits for mid-day. The part of my family from southern France has their big meal of the day around noon and a light meal at night. That's something I never got used to. Eat a five course meal at noon and I was pretty ruined for the rest of the day. Maybe that's why France has labor problems now?
The original meaning of "lunch" is a light meal inbetween bigger meals. So for many, that meaning fits for mid-day. The part of my family from southern France has their big meal of the day around noon and a light meal at night. That's something I never got used to. Eat a five course meal at noon and I was pretty ruined for the rest of the day. Maybe that's why France has labor problems now?
Yep. I work 7p-7a three days one week, four the next. On the days I work back to back often I don't get in bed till 11am or so, have to leave at 6:20. Most of the time I take my "breakfast" and eat as soon as I can between rounds because I hate eat'n as soon as I get up and then eat dinner some time after midnight. Supper is when I get home and get a chance to set down to left overs between or after chores.
Dave
Dave
Yep. I work 7p-7a three days one week, four the next. On the days I work back to back often I don't get in bed till 11am or so, have to leave at 6:20. Most of the time I take my "breakfast" and eat as soon as I can between rounds because I hate eat'n as soon as I get up and then eat dinner some time after midnight. Supper is when I get home and get a chance to set down to left overs between or after chores.
Dave
Dave
jwal10
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Lunch if I carry it, Dinner if I sit down to a mid day meal. Supper in the evening. Sunday dinner right after church....James
Rollie NE PA
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We call it breakfast, lunch and supper. We call it dinner when we have company
Like Thanksgiving dinner, Easter dinner, Christmas dinner, etc.
Just my own thoughts, but saying Easter Supper, or Christmas Lunch just doesn't sound right. IMO! In my house the last meal of the day is somewhere between 5pm to 8pm.
Like Thanksgiving dinner, Easter dinner, Christmas dinner, etc.
Just my own thoughts, but saying Easter Supper, or Christmas Lunch just doesn't sound right. IMO! In my house the last meal of the day is somewhere between 5pm to 8pm.
Nebraska Cowman
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Lunch and Supper. All I have is coffee and maybe toast in the morning. And the only time I get "dinner" is on holidays
Rollie NE PA
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Living in the deep coal mine area, The miners ate the big meal for breakfast.
Some of the local dairy farmers milked at 2:30 in the morning so they could get the milk to the miners for first thing in the morning. I am talking horse and wagon days. LOL
Some of the local dairy farmers milked at 2:30 in the morning so they could get the milk to the miners for first thing in the morning. I am talking horse and wagon days. LOL
I grew up with breakfast in the morning, lunch midmorning, dinner
at noon, lunch at 3:00 and supper whenever the day was done. Still
call it that way but my daughter is trying to mess my wife up with
her lunch at noon. Grandson has been helping out a little at work
and I tell him it's lunch time and he looks at his watch and then at
me like what are you talking about. He said the other day I was
confusing him with lunch in the morning and dinner at noon.
at noon, lunch at 3:00 and supper whenever the day was done. Still
call it that way but my daughter is trying to mess my wife up with
her lunch at noon. Grandson has been helping out a little at work
and I tell him it's lunch time and he looks at his watch and then at
me like what are you talking about. He said the other day I was
confusing him with lunch in the morning and dinner at noon.
huskers86phone
Member
I could get going about soda or as I call it "pop" or some say in the south "a coke" :wink:
RandyB(MI)
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Age 61 in Central MI , Breakfast , Dinner and then Supper! Lunch was something brought out to the field when haying etc so you didn't have to stop and clean up and go to the house for Dinner at NOON! "BRUNCH" is something city slickers made up cause they don't get up till 9 or 10am. So I agree with the others that say all that is left is Breakfast/Dinner/Supper on a normal day on the farm. City people eat any time because they have not much else to do. As such they have to make up different names to call their "nibblings".
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