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[quote=Anonymous]The phrase actually goes back to 18th century England. "Dinner" was the big meal and served in the dining room.  "Supper" is a small dish meal, eaten in the kitchen and is usually hot or cold "soup", from whence came the term "Supper".  American farming communities usually had their large meals mid-day and it was called "Dinner".  Then they had a small soup-based meal in the kitchen by candlelight called "supper" before they went to bed.  As the large meal in America moved toward the evening, the label went with it so we now call the large evening meal - eaten in the dining room "dinner" and the term "supper" is largely unused.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper.

The reason we still retain the "Easter/Thanksgiving" dinners at 1:00 or so was to allow farmers the time to walk to church, have church services, eat, and then walk or ride back to home in time to milk the cows and have "supper".   That is why Lutheran and Methodist churches dot the midwest and west - there needed to be one located every six miles on the theory that a parishioner could walk three miles to church and three miles back.  Communion in the Methodist church was served only once a quarter because the Methodist minister had to make the circuit of churches and could appear only once a quarter, hence the term "circuit rider".[/quote]

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