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Fri Feb-01-08 09:08 PM
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What do you call your evening meal? Here in Canada, dinner is eaten around 6 or 7 o'clock. Supper is eaten after we get back from the movies, theatre, etc. usually very late around midnight.
And you?
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:10 PM
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1. Dinner and Supper are completely interchangeable in my personal lexicon |
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I grew up calling the evening meal supper, but as I have gotten older I find myself calling it both dinner and supper.
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:11 PM
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:14 PM
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My parents call it supper...We call it dinner, usually...Weird.
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:14 PM
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When you eat at midnight...........what do you call it?
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:17 PM
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querelle
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:21 PM
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8. Oh That's Good........ |
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I have been known to do that! Last night I woke up at about 3:00 AM an got up and made myself a PBJ sandwich. I really don't why, but I just wanted one. Isn't that odd?
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:27 PM
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I tend to go with the cravings. Because if I don't initially, I end up eating everything else AND whatever I craved to begin with and that is not good.
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Fri Feb-01-08 10:24 PM
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Sat Feb-02-08 10:03 AM
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19. Growing up it was supper |
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Now it's dinner in my house.
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:10 PM
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It just rolls off of the tongue easier
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:13 PM
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4. Dinner = biggest (usually formal ) meal of the day |
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Dinner can be the midday meal or the evening meal, if it's the main big meal of the day.
That's why it's Sunday Dinner if it's a midday meal on Sunday with china and everything and Dinner if you go out to a restaurant in the evening.
Supper is a light evening meal. In certain parts of England supper is also called tea.
English is a funny language. :crazy:
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:45 PM
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10. Hello fellow Kanukistanian. |
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"Here in Canada, dinner is eaten around 6 or 7 o'clock"
Weird thing.We live in the same great country and there's little differences:
Frog meals: Breakfast in the morning,dinner is eaten around 12:00,Supper is eaten around 17:00-
18:00. What can I say ?
Except I heart you.
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Sat Feb-02-08 06:47 AM
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Es-tu francais? Moi? Je suis, sauf ma mere vien de Bruxelles et le repas a soiree etait toujours souper, mais en anglais on le traduit comme "dinner".
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Sat Feb-02-08 10:10 AM
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20. Same with this French-Canadian-American! |
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Dinner was at noon when I was growing up.
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Fri Feb-01-08 09:56 PM
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11. It was dinner for me... |
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even though Canada's just a stone's throw away.
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Fri Feb-01-08 11:06 PM
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and I've never heard dinner/supper referred to the way you mentioned.
It's quite possibly a regional thing.
For me, "dinner" is a bit more formal, whereas supper is much more casual.
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Sat Feb-02-08 06:41 AM
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15. It Is A Regional Thing |
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Here in Ottawa (aka centre of the universe) we eat dinner in the evening. My parents in Winnipeg eat dinner around noon and supper in the evening.
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Sat Feb-02-08 06:19 AM
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Supper is the evening meal taken between 7 and 9ish depending on how much gin I drink before starting to cook. Dinner is a more formal meal, typically involving guests, and a bit of time tarting myself up.
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Sat Feb-02-08 07:16 AM
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unless I'm online where I call it whatever.
Dinner around here is lunch for some strange reason :)
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Sat Feb-02-08 08:59 AM
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18. It's dinner while I'm still in the States |
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Edited on Sat Feb-02-08 09:01 AM by kedrys
It'll be supper once I move to Montreal. I grew up with "diner" being the midday meal.
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