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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 04, 2012, 06:05:36 PM
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Oh my.
You know, using "dinner" incorrectly for "supper" must be a regional thing.
"Dinner" is a big meal, a special meal, that can happen any time of the day, such as on Sunday or a holiday or during special occasions.
Otherwise, it's breakfast - lunch - supper.
Lucinda (15,151 posts)
What's for Dinner - Satuday Aug 4th
The empressof all (27,399 posts)
1. Oy I didn't know it was gonna be hot here and I committed
But I was smart and got up early and have Sunday Gravy bubbling away. I have a feeling we won't be interested in eating a heavy pasta meal but some braciole and salad may be nice after the sun goes down a bit. And if you are curious, there is sausage, country ribs, meatballs, and a huge braciole made with flank steak rolled with prosciutto, onion, garlic, bread crumbs, provolone and parm. I also added onion, carrots and fresh tomato to the usual sauce made with paste and canned tomato
GoCubsGo (10,181 posts)
2. Going out tonight.
Meeting a friend at an Italian restaurant at which I have never eaten.
livetohike (13,336 posts)
3. Black Bean and Barley Salad, some Quesadillas and slices of honeydew and cantaloup
Too hot to eat, although it did rain a few minutes ago, it never cooled down.
cbayer (109,562 posts)
4. Lamb chops with eggplant
Also, just cut a huge and perfectly ripe papua and someone brought me a heavenly mix of greens, herbs and flowers - so, will make a salad with those ingredients
NJCher (14,842 posts)
5. Pasta and grilled chicken kabobs with vegetables
Red and yellow pepper, onions on the kabobs. Using plum sauce for the marinade.
Pasta is flavored with coriander and ricotta salada.
For dessert, pound cake with vanilla yogurt and fruit: banana, plums, cantaloupe. Chopped mint and walnuts on top.
I deserve a great meal tonight. I cleaned my storage shed from 6:30 a.m. through 2:30. Dirty job involving the eviction of many spiders, who I sent scampering into the woods. Now I have showered and relaxed and I am ready to enjoy the evening!
Due to the heat--the Great Barack Drought of '12 still burns--franksolich usually eats light.
Digesting food ups the body temperature.
So I went to the convenience store in town and bought a $2 bag of Frito-Lay salted popcorn for supper.
Really.
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Dinner > Supper
I've never called it 'supper'. I don't use that word.
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Why do they always claim to eat fancy and uneconomical meals when they cry of being sooo poor as to not know how to survive another day?
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Why do they always claim to eat fancy and uneconomical meals when they cry of being sooo poor as to not know how to survive another day?
I've been eating the same thing almost every night for the last month.
Variety takes up too much of my time.
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Maybe Mike dude the Internet laughingstock and fast food critic can help them out.
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Dinner > Supper
I've never called it 'supper'. I don't use that word.
It must be a southern thing, this reference to supper as "dinner."
I suppose it's because traditionally southerners eat the major meal of the day at supper-time, while the rest of us eat the major meal of the day about noon-time.
Lu's from the south.
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I don't know. The neighbors across the street were from Baton Rouge and Mobile, and always had "supper" at about 1-2pm on Sunday afternoon. It was the only time their house was quiet.
I'm not sure what they did the rest of the week. My parents are Yankees and always called that last meal of the day "dinner".
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My parents are Yankees and always called that last meal of the day "dinner".
Maybe it was the major meal of the day for them?
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Usually.
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Usually.
Okay, I nadined it.
Supper is a name for the evening meal in some dialects of English. While often used interchangeably with "dinner" today, supper was traditionally a separate meal. "Dinner" traditionally had been used to refer to the main and most formal meal of the day, which, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century, was most often the midday meal. When the evening meal became the main meal, it was referred to as "dinner", and the lighter midday meal was called "luncheon."
Dinner is usually the name of the main meal of the day. Depending upon culture, dinner may be the second, third or fourth meal of the day. Originally, though, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten around noon, and is still occasionally used for a noontime meal, if it is a large or main meal.
I knew "luncheon" was more proper than "lunch" for the noon meal (noon around here), but "luncheon" sounds too hoity-toity tea-shoppe-ish, as if something the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive would do.
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Usually.
Dinner to me is going out to eat in a restaurant, holiday meal, any big meal I do not have to cook every day.
Us Yankees of my generation switched meals in the winter, breakfast was what one expected to get for supper and supper was what one got for breakfast.
These were the days when woman stayed home and worked part time if at all outside the house. Of course woman did NOT work they stayed at home feeding and cooking and cleaning up, no dish washer, shopping for food, washing hanging cloths out to dry, ironing clothing, dusting and sweeping and washing floors, cleaning windows, Sewing on buttons or making the kids clothes from a patten, repairing husbands clothing, darning socks and in spare time hooking rugs and sewing quilts.
Summers added to all this they worked the garden and set up a winters worth of canned goods. Ledgers, most woman had them to track every penny spent on anything. No, in no way did they work, husband had the load to bring in the cold cash to keep them going.
SIL was telling me how Hubby's family were raised, 7 kids, both parents worked in the Mills. As soon as one of the kids turned 16 they quit school to work in the mills also to help the family. As mother had a baby every 2 years , Catholic family, life was constent problem of how to feed and cloth all these kids. 3 of them needed glasses and the oldest boy became sick and lost his ability to read and write at age 8.
Food for them was just opening cans and eating pasta. On the religious Holidays in came the Aunties and Grandmothers that cooked up a storm for 3-4 days. real food, salads and milk and MEAT. Mother did not cook she was either pregnant or working 12 hours a day.
So, at the age of 48, mother had massive heart attack and died. There were still 3 children under the age of 18 and then 6-8 weeks later their father died of meningitis. Great, 3 minors with no parents and for some reason they were left to fend for themselves, Hubby being one of them.
Years later when I met him, I told him my kids had all run away as I could not cook. He had no problem with this as he had never married an had lived on peanut butter and crackers for 20 years.
Strange but his siblings all made out well, both his brothers can and do cook, his 4 sisters pulled them selves up by the boot straps, and have a good life.
After 20 years Hubby has come to expect the unexpected for supper, but, I have been teaching him 200 ways to cook Ramen noodles just in case I kick the bucket before him.
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My grandma calls it supper (lived on a farm), my mom calls it dinner. Both were born in Iowa close to Omaha, Ne). I never call it supper.
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I call the evening meal supper.
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My grandma calls it supper (lived on a farm), my mom calls it dinner. Both were born in Iowa close to Omaha, Ne). I never call it supper.
I'm an Iowan originally and the men in my family call it supper and the women--who are a bit more cultured--call it dinner.
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Them primitives just braggin' unnecessary like. Waht was my supper? Burgers that we had to hole, sittin' on the deck with me regaling the inkids with stories about Arizona, New Mexico, and their adopeted Uncle Shawn and the 7 MPs. I also go to listen about the son's trip the plans to take on a rocket ship to Mars when he gets older and my daughter's olympic figure skating medal. Good Supper.
Come to think of it, I'm bragging. Life is good.