Supper or dinner?

[101combatvet]

Interesting to see this thread but now I am confused. I just saw a WW2 inscription about rations that referred to lunch as supper and the evening meal as dinner. How can the Army be wrong?

 

[Glorybound]

Interesting to see this thread but now I am confused. I just saw a WW2 inscription about rations that referred to lunch as supper and the evening meal as dinner. How can the Army be wrong?

Cool post, 101. I wonder what "Ration type K" means? (Obviously I was never in the military)

 

[Hannah]

For my grandparents it's always been "supper." Mom calls it "Dinner" or yells "it's soup!" For Dad and my uncle just yell "food!" and they'll come.

 

[Glorybound]

For Dad and my uncle just yell "food!" and they'll come.

Yeah that's pretty much all I'd need to hear...

 

[Union_Buff]

I call it dinner or sometimes "tea".

 

[Tar Heel Blue]

I was raised and still consider that any meal around noon is dinner. The meal in the evening is supper.

 

[101combatvet]

Cool post, 101. I wonder what "Ration type K" means? (Obviously I was never in the military)

Actually, I now think the picture maybe reversed. Well, according to this site at least...

http://www.ww2rationtechnologies.com/History.html

 

[Dugger]

I call breakfast "coffee". Since I cook for myself these days I call lunch "barf" and supper "barf II". Actually I am a pretty good cook. I will say one thing...thank God for the microwave.

 

[Republican Blues]

Cool post, 101. I wonder what "Ration type K" means? (Obviously I was never in the military)

The K Ration was a type of Field Ration during WWII. you had A's (hot chow usually made in a chow hall, B's Hot chow made from canned food and preped in the field, C's (canned rations) K's and 5 in 1's. The Ks were not popular, but were lighter than Cs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_ration

 

[Greg Taylor]

Even worse...I had one of those Roy Rogers ones that looked like a covered wagon, complete with thermos. Hardly worn....my mom gave it to the Salvation Army. Look that one up. Talk about wanting to lose one's cookies.....

As a first-grader I was the proud owner of a Roy Rogers lunch box with a Dale Evans thermos. Dale Evans was my first love. About one day a week I got to eat in the school cafeteria. We called it lunch. At night I had dinner. I was a city boy. I thought only farmers had "dinner" at midday and "supper" in the evening.

 

[Dugger]

As a first-grader I was the proud owner of a Roy Rogers lunch box with a Dale Evans thermos. Dale Evans was my first love. About one day a week I got to eat in the school cafeteria. We called it lunch. At night I had dinner. I was a city boy. I thought only farmers had "dinner" at midday and "supper" in the evening.

Seems like everyone that has any years on em had a Roy Rogers lunch box at one time or another. I wonder how much Roy made on that deal? He was from Ohio ya know. Born in a shack on the Ohio River not far from downtown Cincinnati.

 

[Greg Taylor]

Seems like everyone that has any years on em had a Roy Rogers lunch box at one time or another. I wonder how much Roy made on that deal? He was from Ohio ya know. Born in a shack on the Ohio River not far from downtown Cincinnati.

Amazing that a guy born in a shack named Leonard Slye would end up on millions of lunchboxes!

 

[Dugger]

Amazing that a guy born in a shack named Leonard Slye would end up on millions of lunchboxes!

Yup. Rags to riches. The American dream. Happy trails to ya!

I should add Roy Rogers to my great things about Ohio thread.

 

[Mina_LeBrun]

My grandma called an early meal between 2 and 5 supper. Dinner was later. Lunch was lunch and served at noon. Breakfast was always grits, very filling, and made as soon as waking to have it done before it got hot. She thought it was humorous to hear us talk about breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner...I wonder what she would have thought of elevenies, tea and refering to lunch as dinner or tea as dinner. She made it perfectly clean that she wasn't cooking all those meals. Frankly, I think only a Hobbit would cook all those much less eat them.

 

[Nathanb1]

My grandma called an early meal between 2 and 5 supper. Dinner was later. Lunch was lunch and served at noon. Breakfast was always grits, very filling, and made as soon as waking to have it done before it got hot. She thought it was humorous to hear us talk about breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner...I wonder what she would have thought of elevenies, tea and refering to lunch as dinner or tea as dinner. She made it perfectly clean that she wasn't cooking all those meals. Frankly, I think only a Hobbit would cook all those much less eat them.

Servants. That's why you'd have 'em.....servants to cook and wash up. I'd eat all day long if someone else would take care of the cooking and cleaning

 

[proud texan]

Breakfast, Dinner, then Supper

 

[Dave Hull]

The Army kind of changed how I thought about it, it was always dinner at noon and supper in the evening for me, but the Army ran on lunch and dinner. Since we infantrymen are so easily confused, the NCO's made it easy for us, they just called everything "Chow".

I use Chow now for all meals, which drives my wife nuts. She uses lunch and dinner, which is odd to me as she is from SW WV and my family is from western Virginia. It must be the Scot influence on my side and the Irish influence on hers

Dave

 

[Mina_LeBrun]

I think it's more of who family had been in service in the old country. Dinner was commonly at noon because time was need to look after the family in the evening. Also many European countrys ate and still do there big meal at noon, whatever they called it.

 

[Bob Owen]

Dinner was used for the evening meal more so in the South. Supper seemd to have been used more in the North and Mid-West.

 

[TinCan]

It was always breakfast, lunch, and dinner at our house. I had the neatest Davy Crockett lunchbox (Fess Parker displayed on the front) I'm like K Hale, I wish I had that thing back now (Pawn Stars here I'd come).