Supper or dinner?

[ole]

Back in the days when only Prroh, Southland and Larry were dirtying short-pants, it was supper.

The main meal was around noon and it was dinner. A lighter meal came around dusk and it was supper.

They had the right idea. Main meal get's worked off in the afternoon. The lighter meal in the evening isn't quite so inclined to pack inches around the hips and waist.

However, my genetic people eat at least five times per day. There is breakfast, morning coffee, dinner, afternoon coffee, supper, and the pre-bedtime coffee with cake and pie and cookies. Each of those "coffees" involved sandwiches, pie, cake and cookies. There were no skinny ladies serving.

I'll suspect that those of you raised in or near farm country got a good taste of that eating thing.

 

[Southland]

Yawl remember them big bells farmers used and were found in back yards. That was called a dinner bell and was rung at 12 noon.
That is good enough for me. Then the 6 oclock meal was supper. However, in school the 12 noon was lunchtime. I used a brown bag which was called a lunch bag. When I was working, I carried a lunch box. I have no idea how that changed.

 

[K Hale]

Hey, I carried a lunch box to school. It had Charlie Brown and Snoopy on it. This was the 1970s. God knows where it is now, but it'd be worth $$$ today.

 

[K Hale]

And originally one's lunch was carried in a cylindrical tin pail, was it not? Now that is old school.

 

[Nathanb1]

Hey, I carried a lunch box to school. It had Charlie Brown and Snoopy on it. This was the 1970s. God knows where it is now, but it'd be worth $$$ today.

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.....

 

[Copper 83rd PA INF]

I always heard "supper" when I was younger. I'm not sure when it transformed to "dinner".

 

[JWheeler331]

Supper here for the late meal. Dinner or lunch for the midday meal.

 

[Borderruffian]

Supper.

Dinner is the afternoon repast.

Never question Grandma.

 

[historian69]

Don't forget to Supersize everything so it will be a specila dinner/supper-lol

 

[ole]

We all carried lunch boxes. I have four of them. Wonder why nobody else wanted theirs?

 

[larry_cockerham]

I never cared what they called it, long as they called me when it was ready. (Now I have to fix my own. Thank God for Cracker Barrel, O'Charleys and Outback.)

 

[ole]

Gonna have to instruct you in $3.00 dinners. As being in Tennessee has not yet affected your brain, simple, filling, nutritious meals can be made for less than $5.00. Yeah, they can get boring, there's only so much cheesy macaroni you can eat before going postal, but you can press the edges. A time or two at Red Lobster and Applebee's can be worked in. There is nothing you can buy that you can't make at home, except someone has to clean up the kitchen. But you don't have to figure the tip.

 

[larry_cockerham]

Gonna have to instruct you in $3.00 dinners. As being in Tennessee has not yet affected your brain, simple, filling, nutritious meals can be made for less than $5.00. Yeah, they can get boring, there's only so much cheesy macaroni you can eat before going postal, but you can press the edges. A time or two at Red Lobster and Applebee's can be worked in. There is nothing you can buy that you can't make at home, except someone has to clean up the kitchen. But you don't have to figure the tip.

$2 or 10%, whichever is less. My wife won't let me use that old rule very often. You are quite correct, Sir. There are still places in Tennessee and other parts of Dixie where a man can get a thick slice of baloney and some free crackers. Soft drink prices have gone way up while the taste has gone way down. Thank the Good Lord for water, every chance you get. Otherwise coffee just wouldn't be the same. I guess I've been around construction crews too long.

 

[Savez]

Supper at night, dinner at midday.

 

[bama46]

We all carried lunch boxes. I have four of them. Wonder why nobody else wanted theirs?

Yankees have lunch boxes, southerners have dinner pails

 

[K Hale]

Gonna have to instruct you in $3.00 dinners. As being in Tennessee has not yet affected your brain, simple, filling, nutritious meals can be made for less than $5.00. Yeah, they can get boring, there's only so much cheesy macaroni you can eat before going postal, but you can press the edges. A time or two at Red Lobster and Applebee's can be worked in. There is nothing you can buy that you can't make at home, except someone has to clean up the kitchen. But you don't have to figure the tip.

I sure as heck cannot make Pei Wei's kung pao chicken at home. I have seen the cooks fixing it, and it involves flames shooting three feet into the air.

Guess what's for lunch? Oh and it's considered a quick service place so there's no tipping... although my standard for tipping is 20%, though it may expand or shrink depending upon attitude and services rendered. My policy is to be really good to the people who handle my food, if you know what I mean.

 

[Nathanb1]

My daughter and son in law love Fo King. Seriously. Do they have one in Dallas?

 

[K Hale]

There's no Fo King restaurants here.

Seriously... my favs are Pei Wei and its big brother, P.F. Chang's. Droooool....

 

[ole]

Snicker .

Ole

 

[larry_cockerham]

Yankees have lunch boxes, southerners have dinner pails

Whatever happened to the paper sack? You city boys are too formal.