Our meals are called what????

@jer31558 (3683)
United States
April 24, 2008 11:46pm CST
Having grew up in the south, when we talked about our morning meal, we referred to it as breakfast, the middle meat was dinner, and finally supper. How about you, what is the order, and how do you call your three names.
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11 responses
• United States
25 Apr 08
I have always just called them breakfast,lunch and dinner. But my grandpa always calls dinner super.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I have seen many like that, in fact most everyone I know. lol
@Kowgirl (3489)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I was born and raised in the south and it was breakfast, lunch ,and dinner. If we had a meal after 8:00 PM it was supper. I had never thought about why it would be called by another name just because it was served at a later time. I do remember we had brunch on the weekends but never during a weekday. I found out latter that dinner could be the midday meal or evening meal. I wonder what a meal would be called if we ate it between noon and evening??? dinper or lunner or lupper We could start up a new trend and add a new word to our vocabulary.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I actually never heard of brunch until probably my teenage years. And then I thought it was something that only the rich folks did. I will cast my vote for lunner..
@buldwgz (1489)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Breakfast, Lunch and supper...sometimes that was called dinner at my house growing up. But, Always breakfast and Lunch were the first and second meal of the day.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I thought it sounded odd the first time I heard someone call dinner lunch. Now I am quite comfortable calling dinner lunch...lol
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@emma412 (1156)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I'm from the confused south and my husband is from the south. We call them breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have never heard of the middle meal being called dinner before.
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@emma412 (1156)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Which part are you from? I grew up in Virginia Beach. That's why I called it the "confused South" we just can't quite decide what we want to be there. Maybe I've never heard of it since my mom is from another country and my dad is from Colorado.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
25 Apr 08
The times are changing thats for sure and come to think of it, I hardly hear anyone refer to supper as any meal at all anymore.
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@jrsmith (292)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Well for all my life Mama and Daddy said breakfast dinner and supper. Resturants are so not country like us!!LOL
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
26 Apr 08
Ahhh country cooking, I can smell it now. Country cooking and country living, theyre both for me.
@meglovesb (347)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I always call it breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
26 Apr 08
The use of supper is kinda disappearing but considering who your grandparents are, I am kinda surprised...LOL
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
25 Apr 08
For me its always been Breakfast, Lunch and either Dinner or Supper..I rarely refer to the final meal as Supper these days though, usually I just say Dinner.. and a LATE morning Breakfast was called Brunch
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Most people that I know are pretty much that way. If I have a late breakfast or a mid morning snack, I call it just that a mid morning snack. I dont think that to this day I have every used brunch in reference to a meal or snack I consume.
@whittby (3072)
• United States
27 Apr 08
We've lived all over the country and it's always interesting to hear what people call things. I was raised with breakfast, lunch and supper and Sunday dinner in the afternoon.
@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
28 Apr 08
I have seen it referred to just as you have on many occasions. Thanks for your comment.
@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
26 Apr 08
I grew up in the southeast. Breakfast is the morning meal Lunch is the midday meal and supper is the final meal of the day , except on sunday then the midday meal is called sunday dinner (family and friends gathered on sundays after sunday school so it was a huge meal) and you usually do not have supper just a snack before bed.
@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
28 Apr 08
We too had Sunday dinner, we just referred to each midday meal as dinner.
@lagrooms (119)
28 Apr 08
Breakfast, Lunch and supper.
@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
3 May 08
Thanks for responding.
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
21 Mar 11
The main meals here are Breakfast, Dinner, then Tea. That last one can be used interchangeably with the hot drink, especially if one couldn't be bothered preparing the meal. I believe it comes from the English terms in common use when we were first settled, but if you look at the what the English name their meals now, one would never guess! The English tend to eat smaller meals & more often too. So there is also Morning Tea, eaten typically at around ten o'clock & Afternoon Tea at about three in the afternoon. We tend to have larger meals here (probably due to the influence of German Settlers to many areas). Working as a Roustabout in shearing sheds here, they revert to calling these smaller meal breaks "Morning Smoko" & "Afternoon Smoko". They were looking to phase that out in the early nineteen nineties, but they couldn't stand the English names either!