Dinner verses Supper

United States
September 21, 2017 3:51pm CST
I have heard some people call the evening meal Dinner while others calls the evening meal Supper. It depends on who I am with on what I call the evening meal. What do you call the evening meal and why? There is no wrong answer.
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Kandase
@Kandae11 (53679)
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21 Sep 17
I've always known our evening meal to be called dinner.
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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl
@1creekgirl (40411)
• United States
21 Sep 17
Here in the southern US, most of us call the three meals, breakfast, lunch or dinner, and supper. It can get confusing.
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louievill
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
21 Sep 17
It's interchangeable in the Phillipines but supper is exclusive for night time meal while dinner could be any time except breakfast.
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
21 Sep 17
We used to call it supper at home Keith.
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Sabrina Traversa
@sabtraversa (12851)
• Italy
21 Sep 17
"Cena", Italian. Otherwise, I usually say "dinner" in English. It's the first term I learned in school, so I'm more accustomed to it. I know what "supper" means, but it is not a word I usually use. Supper sounds like soup, I usually don't eat soup in the evening.
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Marlina
@marlina (154166)
• Canada
21 Sep 17
Where I come from, we called it the supper.
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Catherine
@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
22 Sep 17
For me the evening meal is dinner, though I do have friends that call it supper, I suppose it depends on the individual.
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12614)
• Ireland
21 Sep 17
@scrapper In Ireland many of us refer to it quite often as tea.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
21 Sep 17
Abendbrot (German), aftensmad (Danish), cena (Italian).
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (57731)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Sep 17
Funny about that. I generally say I'm going to dinner when I eat out at a restaurant but say supper when I am home. My Mom was from farmers so dinner meant what I call lunch.
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