The Goat Pen

hedge wrote:So two of the answers for the supper/dinner question were: "Supper is the evening meal, dinner is eaten earlier" and "Supper is the evening meal, dinner is the main meal". What makes any meal the main meal? I think of supper as the main meal, but mainly b/c I don't eat breakfast and rarely eat lunch...

quality or quantity - in both terms of food and people

I didn't get questions re: yard sale, mountain lion, or supper/dinner...guess my other answers pretty much locked me in?

"quality or quantity - in both terms of food and people"

But most of the time you ain't eating lunch with alot of people and it's usually not a particularly high quality meal. I think of supper as the high quality meal of the day with a variety of foodstuffs. Until I hooked up with the MIF, I lived on ice cream and booze...

hedge wrote:"quality or quantity - in both terms of food and people"

But most of the time you ain't eating lunch with alot of people and it's usually not a particularly high quality meal. I think of supper as the high quality meal of the day with a variety of foodstuffs. Until I hooked up with the MIF, I lived on ice cream and booze...

well I do to, but you ain't ever had a big meal after church?

my first wife's family was the same way - big meal after church on Sunday and they'd have fucking popcorn for dinner on Sunday night.

every damn Sunday. I was like - get in the car woman, I'm going to sonic

I guess I have heard and maybe even used Sunday dinner for the meal after church, but it's specific to Sunday. I don't ever say "Wednesday dinner"...

Supper doesn't exist in Philly...but (in black households, at least) if you came by for Sunday Dinner at my house, you sure as shit were not trying to eat anything else later in the night. You may not have had anything more than hot tea for breakfast the next day.

I put supper and dinner are the same thing which in my citified upbringing always means an evening meal. Now my grandparents from rural central Texas called the midday meal dinner, and the evening meal supper. I think on the farm the biggest meal was served at lunchtime (dinner).

Freeway access/frontage roads being the "feeder road" seems to be the main bullseye that points specifically to the Houston area.

Yep, it was a friend of mine from Austin who sent that to me, when I went thru the quiz with her, almost all of her answers were the same as mine except that one. She tried to insist that the grassy area b/w roads was called a grassy knoll, but then she admitted that that was just b/c she is obsessed with JFK's assassination...

One or two of her other answers must've been different from yours, though, b/c the quiz had her as New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Jackson, MS (I think the other one was Jackson, might've been Shreeveport)...

Pittsburgh, Lincoln, Omaha

That is pretty good.

I wonder what the giveaway was? Hoagie?

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Fuckin Hilljacks

Rat is correct.

So supper is not in the lexicon at all?

Hoagie and you'uns

Dinner is the main meal of the day whether it falls during lunchtime or suppertime. If its not the main meal of the day its lunch or supper.

Case closed

Pittsburgh peeps say "hut" for "hot" and "turlet" for "toilet." I almost hate to claim them as part of my home state...sometimes I just pretend they are Ohio.

Step off

We don't use supper at all...breakfast, lunch, and dinner...if you eat dinner early on Sundays, that's "early dinner"...

Subs and y'all...

My grandfather never ate lunch in his life. Dinner was served at 11 a.m. and supper at 5 p.m.