What Do You Call Your Mid-Day Meal? Your Evening Meal?

[fly girl]

Lived in Midwest (Michigan and Cincinnati) and Southwest (Arizona).

Noon meal: all regions used lunch.

Evening meal: all regions used dinner. Supper was used in Michigan, but dinner was said most of the time.

Carbonated beverage: pop in Midwest, Coke in AZ. And in Michigan, your only ginger ale is Vernor's ... don't give us that weak *** Canada Dry.

We all pushed a shopping cart, but interchanged grocery store and supermarket. Although Cincinnatians simply say they're going to Krogers (with the 's' on the end.)

A three way in Cincinnati is referring chili, not a ménage a trois like it would be just about anywhere else.

And in Michigan, with the older generation, you sat on the davenport not the couch. None of those regions really said the word sofa very much.

Growing up in Michigan it was always breakfast, lunch/dinner, and supper. The word "dinner" was referred to like "Sunday dinner", the noon meal.

About the only time we use the word "dinner" meaning the evening meal is when we're on a cruise as that's what they call it.

We never used dinner for lunch. Lansing girl here, what region in MI are you in?

What debate? It's pop.

It sure is!!!

 

[xjillianpaige]

Lunch and Supper.

I do use dinner as well, but my first instinct was "supper." I'm from the Boston area.

 

[nancygirl1]

Lunch and dinner, but as a kid I called the everyday evening meal supper, as my parents did, and once in a while I still do slip and say supper. Growing up, we only called it dinner when it was something special, like if we had company or went to my grandparents' house for a more formal meal, usually on a Sunday afternoon around 3:00 or on holidays. Dinner meant we were sitting in the dining room instead of the kitchen and using the good china and cloth napkins.

That's the way it is with me. And a cart at the grocery store is a shopping cart or a carriage.

It's funny how you don't really think about the words you use until you compare areas and cultures, etc. No wonder English is so difficult to learn and understand. Then you add in my Boston accent and it makes it even crazier. lol

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

My meals in order.
Breakfast.
Second Breakfast
Elevensies.
Brunch.
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper.
Midnight Snack.

 

[MIGrandma]

Lived in Midwest (Michigan and Cincinnati) and Southwest (Arizona).

Noon meal: all regions used lunch.

Evening meal: all regions used dinner. Supper was used in Michigan, but dinner was said most of the time.

Carbonated beverage: pop in Midwest, Coke in AZ. And in Michigan, your only ginger ale is Vernor's ... don't give us that weak *** Canada Dry.

We all pushed a shopping cart, but interchanged grocery store and supermarket. Although Cincinnatians simply say they're going to Krogers (with the 's' on the end.)

A three way in Cincinnati is referring chili, not a ménage a trois like it would be just about anywhere else.

And in Michigan, with the older generation, you sat on the davenport not the couch. None of those regions really said the word sofa very much.




We never used dinner for lunch. Lansing girl here, what region in MI are you in?



It sure is!!!

Gratiot County, all my life.

 

[loves to dive]

I'm in Georgia. My family had lunch and supper. My ex-husband's family, who were country folk, had dinner and supper.

 

[Hannahinwonderland]

Grew up on Long Island, NY. It's lunch and dinner. "Supper" is a bizarre, weird term to us.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

I use Lunch for midday and Supper/Dinner interchangeably for the evening meal.

My mother argues that Dinner is supposed to be lunch, because in regional french "diner" is lunch and "super" is supper. But it turns out that's a regional thing, sooooo... yah.

 

[blana]

Lunch and supper.

Growing up, we'd use dinner for lunch, but at some point that morphed over into lunch and supper most of the time, with big meals (Christmas, Easter, etc.) being the only time dinner is usually used.

And, lived in NC all my life.

(Actually, I irrationally dislike the fact that Disney uses dinner for supper in their reservations. It grates every time I see it.)

 

[mousefanmichelle]

Ok - it's breakfast, lunch and dinner here in MI (Troy). My in-laws say supper but they mean dinner (Richmond, MI) and they also serve something called night-lunch which is a whack-a-do term for after dinner meal on certain nights and it was pizza. It's also pop not coke or soda or anything else. We call it a cart at the grocery store.

 

[bethbuchall]

Here in NY State it's lunch in the mid-day and dinner in the evening. But don't get me started on the "soda" vs. "pop" debate.

Lunch and dinner in the parts of NYS that I've lived in, too. (But I've been in both pop and soda regions, and sometimes I use the "wrong" one for where I am.)

 

[bethbuchall]

I can't stand the word "pop." Even reading it online is like nails on a chalkboard in my brain.

That's how I used to feel about "soda" when not referring to an ice cream soda or club soda. Now I'm used to it.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Lunch at Dinner at our house.

We live in the South, but we are from the North.

We say soda, cart and couch.

But we drink tea, not coffee. (I lived in England during my informative years, and can't stand coffee and like my tea with a little milk/cream)

 

[melanielll]

Breakfast, Lunch and Wine...just kidding

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Growing up it was Breakfast, Dinner and Supper. I stopped using that when I went to college.

 

[Stacy's a freak]

Neither.....its just coke. Any and all kind of carbonated drinks are cokes

Ugh, I find myself saying in a restaurant "coke or pepsi or whatever" to avoid the inevitable "is pepsi ok?" from the waitperson.