Do you eat dinner or supper?

I am from Cincinnati and we eat supper. The only time we eat dinner is if it is out at a resturaunt or something.

In my region, English is not our mother tongue but most of us use dinner instead of supper. Although so, most of us still know what supper means.

I didn't eat dinner today...i just did not feel like it hehe.

Actually I eat both. It just depends on which one I feel like saying at the time. I lived in Alabama for a year and I think I carried some of it with me to VA. Both of them are very edible.

hi sunnflr....i'm originally from michigan and now live in missouri and my family has always had supper in the evening. dinner was sunday after church in the afternoon. now here in missouri people around me have dinner in the evening and laugh at me when they hear me say supper. and i grew up in michigan in a small town not in the country. and here in missouri again in a small town not in the country. it is breakfast then lunch then supper. only on sundays did we have dinner.

uggghh... Sorry but what is the difference of dinner and supper? Here in my country I think supper and dinner is the same, you eat it at night. So anyway, I do eat dinner/supper. I eat rice at dinner/supper and a viand. I get used to that setup here. I also eat breakfast and lunch.

We have always called it dinner. When I was a kid the only day that we called it supper was on Sundays and Holidays. I really do not know why we separated the Sundays other then we usually eat earlier.

We eat dinner. If you'd ask my children, they are 2 and 5, they would tell you every meal we eat is dinner. LOL! For my 2 yo I don't think she has learned how to say lunch or breakfast yet.

Interesting question, sunnflr. Well, I grew up in IL and my parents always called the late afternoon meal, "supper." Somehow, I morphed in to a person who calls that same meal, "dinner." I notice that my husband also uses the term, "dinner." So, I'm not quite sure when I changed from using "supper" to using "dinner". My husband and I lived in central IL for several years and I can't honestly remembered which we called it while we lived there!

I am from the UK, and the part of the country that I am from we have breakfast, dinner(lunch) and tea(evening meal) and then anything after that is supper. I have to remember to get the terms right on here if I am talking about food because if I say I am going to have my tea, no one knows what I am going on about!

I'm not from the US but I thought dinner and supper is differentiated by the time the meal is taken. If it's 7-ish, they we call it dinner. If it is taken very late, like 11 o'clock, it's called supper. I usually eat dinner.

"Technically, the word "supper" refers to a light evening meal, and "dinner" is a more formal, hearty meal. In colonial days, farmers were too busy to eat three meals a day, so they only had breakfast and dinner, and the wealthy had three meals a day: breakfast, dinner, and supper. Back then, dinner was a hearty meal that one ate in the middle of the day, and supper was a lighter meal that one ate before retiring for the evening." I got this from this site: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/surveys/survey-dinner-or-supper-046379 I think that, these days, people don't think about the true meaning of the words 'dinner' and 'supper'. They take it as the evening meal. We have 'dinner' here, but only because that's the way we were raised. I am in Virginia, which is a southern state, but originally from Maryland. Even though Maryland is technically a southern state as well (right below the Mason-Dixon line), the people there "think" more like northerners. But, since you raised such an interesting question, I'd say that, technically, I eat "supper" not long before going to bed, since it originally meant 'a lighter meal'. I usually call it a "late night snack". It always follows 'dinner' by a few hours. Everyone else around here, the people born and raised here in Virginia, call it "supper". We moved 100 miles due west from Maryland to Virginia; not south at all. It's funny how there can be such a big different in just a few miles! I'm getting used to calling it "supper" now.

We have a supper here,in te morning we will have a small breakfast,and then a small lunch ,and then we will have a good supper.I generally relate to dinner as being a meal that you will eat in a restaurant,maybe that is just me thinking that way.But we have always known it as supper time,after that we eat nothing more until the next morning

Wow .. that is good you have only 3 meals .. in my country eating is everthing and evertime .. we have Breakfast (7.00am) / Morning Break (10.30am) / Lunch (1.00pm) /Afternoon Tea Break (4.00pm) / Dinner (8.00pm) and followed by Supper (11.00pm).. EAT ! EAT ! and EAT !

I already responded to the post on Michy's forum but I will post it here too. We eat dinner but I grew up listening to my grandparents calling it supper. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a late night snack. :)