Do you refer to the evening meal as "supper" or "dinner"?

[Anonymous]

Dinner, soda (not 'pop), 'aunt' (not pronounced 'ant'), eye-ther not pronounced eee-ther (either).

Supper is the evening meal. Dinner is after church - basically a hot, sit down version of lunch.

Any kind of soft drink is Coke.

Aunt is pronounced either ant or ain't

either = ee-ther.

I love regional differences. I am from Mississippi. My roots are showing.

[Anonymous]

I can top that (for outdated sayings). My grandmother referred to the refrigerator as "ice box" (it was once a container that held a square chunk of ice) and purses were always "pocket-bags". Love it. Wore a girdle and hose until the day she died (97).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can top that (for outdated sayings). My grandmother referred to the refrigerator as "ice box" (it was once a container that held a square chunk of ice) and purses were always "pocket-bags". Love it. Wore a girdle and hose until the day she died (97).

OH MY.I forgot, my mom calls her purse her pocketbook. Not bag, but book. At least your grandma's version makes sense!

[Anonymous]

My mom, from NYC taught me that the term supper is working class, or from working class roots. She is snobby about things like that - which makes me laugh. Still, I think in the circles she grew up in, very upper class, only the help had " supper" and it was eaten in the kitchen, not the dining room. I do call the evening meal dinner though. I have rarely heard anyone call it supper.

Along those same snobberies, My mom gets really upset that we do not eat in the dining room every night (mostly eat at breakfast bar in kitchen as it seats 4) and that we don't use cloth napkins or china plates every night. We use paper napkins except for special dinners and, when the children were small, melamine plates. L As they are older now we kind of switch around. The melamine plates are cute, bright colors. I like them. When she would visit she would get herself a cloth napkin and ask for her food to be on china. I just rolled my eyes to myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Dinner, soda (not 'pop), 'aunt' (not pronounced 'ant'), eye-ther not pronounced eee-ther (either).

Supper is the evening meal. Dinner is after church - basically a hot, sit down version of lunch.

Any kind of soft drink is Coke.

Aunt is pronounced either ant or ain't

either = ee-ther.

I love regional differences. I am from Mississippi. My roots are showing.

It is always a coke! Grew up in Memphis!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say dinner. My mom calls it supper and she is from Boston and is highly over educated!

16:21 here (pp also with a mom from Boston who says supper)

Were your mom's parents very educated (my maternal grandparents were not--grandfather didn't even graduated high school and was a police officer with the city of Boston, Grandmother graduated from high school but that's it)?
What part of Boston did your mom grow up in? My mom grew up in Dorchester--her parents were from South Boston.

I have no idea where she grew up in Boston, just Boston

Her mother was a daughter of Irish Immigrants that were straight off the boat and her father was a Austrian Soldier, fresh off the boat after WW2 and they were a bi-lingual home. I know her father was drafted to the German Army when he was 16 and served 3 years and nearly starved to death on the Russian Front, a miracle that he survived that that I'm here today....with that said, I would say he might have graduated high school at best. That did not stop him from becoming a widely successful American business owner and is still alive and retired filthy rich. My mother had a pretty affluent upbringing, hence her opportunity to be highly over-educated at fine New England institutions. Her mother even graduated college, which is quite an accomplishment for a daughter of Depression Era Irish Immigrants. I doubt they were New England society, especially considering her father's ethnicity, but they were most definitely not anything close to working class Boston.

She still says supper and calls the grocery store "Market" and calls PJs jammies. All of which annoy me.

Why does that annoy you? We say "jammies", and the store is often called the "market", and the liquor store often called the "Package store" or "packy". Not sure why that would annoy anyone.

[Anonymous]

"My mom gets really upset that we do not eat in the dining room every night (mostly eat at breakfast bar in kitchen as it seats 4) and that we don't use cloth napkins or china plates every night."

My mother taught me that only the help or poor people eat in the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Do you refer to the evening meal as "supper" or "dinner"?

Dinner, because we are not farmers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Do you refer to the evening meal as "supper" or "dinner"?

Dinner, because we are not farmers.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can top that (for outdated sayings). My grandmother referred to the refrigerator as "ice box" (it was once a container that held a square chunk of ice) and purses were always "pocket-bags". Love it. Wore a girdle and hose until the day she died (97).

Mother in law called the microwave, "the radar range" and sometimes called the car, "a machine." (Along with all those other old lady words like pocketbook, icebox, market, dungarees, luncheon, parlor, galoshes, and the front stoop.). Oh, and "Bully for you!"

[Anonymous]

Loved my southern college boyfriend who would ask what kind of Coke I wanted. It was all Coke.

DH is from NY, near manhattan, and calls oatmeal porridge. Who says that?! Besides Goldie Locks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can top that (for outdated sayings). My grandmother referred to the refrigerator as "ice box" (it was once a container that held a square chunk of ice) and purses were always "pocket-bags". Love it. Wore a girdle and hose until the day she died (97).

Mother in law called the microwave, "the radar range" and sometimes called the car, "a machine." (Along with all those other old lady words like pocketbook, icebox, market, dungarees, luncheon, parlor, galoshes, and the front stoop.). Oh, and "Bully for you!"

I say pocketbook, market, luncheon, parlor, galoshes and front stoop.

[Anonymous]

I never understood why anyone would say "ant" when it is spelled a-u-n-t. Makes no sense.

Brit poster, me too!

[Anonymous]

Grew up in Ohio. Mid-day meal was lunch and evening meal was dinner, and those are the terms I use. Only exception was Thanksgiving dinner, regardless of the time of day.

Paternal grandparents were from NE Ohio with their roots in the deep south. Lower class, uneducated (didn't finish HS), and they used supper and dinner interchangeably, and said "warsh".


BIG change was moving to the east coast and learning to say soda instead of pop! Pop now sounds so strange when I go home to visit family.

[Anonymous]

How about just calling it 'eats', 'a meal' or 'food'?