Dinner vs. supper. Some people
refer to the last meal of the day as supper and dinner as the midday meal. Then
there are those who refer to the last meal of the day as dinner and the midday
meal as lunch. I have always wondered why this is and how we came about to use
the two terms. According to English.stackexchange.com and various other
websites that said the same thing, dinner is considered the main meal of the
day. So technically it could be evening or midday. Apparently supper is a
lighter, evening meal with lunch being its midday equivalent. Sources say that
supper came about by farmers who would typically eat bigger meals midday and
meanwhile would have soup cooking throughout the day for the evening meal.
Apparently they would “sup” the soup which lead to the term supper. It’s funny
how within our own culture we say it differently. I for example call my evening
meal dinner, where as a friend of mine calls it supper.
This reminds me of pop vs. soda.
Whatever you call it depends on the culture. According to discovermagazine.com,
the Midwest largely calls it pop, maybe even sodapop. The east and west coast
typically refer to it as soda with the south calling it coke, regardless of
what kind it actually is. There are also some that refer to it as a soft drink.
Isn’t it funny how within the same
country we can have such differing terms for essentially the same thing?
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