About a month ago, I asked you what you called your various meals.
Well, first of all, I am mad that I didn't get more answers. I count on you guys! Second of all, I'm mad at my sister, Louise, who grew up with the SAME Daddy I did, but who somehow escaped the idea of calling Sunday's meals "dinner" and "supper."
Her thoughts? "I don't remember ever using the word "supper" except when referring to the Last Supper or when I fed my cat "Super-Supper" flavor cat food."
Great. Cat food.
When I was growing up, most days, we ate breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Lunch at noonish, dinner around 5 p.m.)
On Sundays, though, it was different. We ate breakfast or brunch, then we ate "dinner" at about 1:30 p.m., and "supper" at about 6:30 p.m. or so.
Jo does almost the opposite of that. She says: "I tease my York friends who eat supper at five o'clock, as if a five o'clock whistle has blown. Personally, I eat dinner around 6:30 or 7:00 and lunch around 1."
Here is a page with more than you ever wanted to know about what some people say are the differences between dinner and supper - and why you can eat both in the same day. I would say that around here, most people say either one or the other for whatever their evening meal is, and that we're pretty steady about calling the first two meals breakfast and lunch.
But is there anyone else who ate breakfast, dinner, supper like me?
Sorry for not posting on this the first time. I am with you, I had Sunday Dinner at 1pm. Then Supper in the evening. Every other day, it was dinner at night.
Also, since I am such an early riser, I have adopted the hobbit way -- 1st breakfast and 2nd breakfast. 1st breakfast is usually around 5am. Second breakfast is around 8. I never make it to lunch without second breakfast!
Ok, I have to go with Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. Sundays was breakfast (later then most other days, but not brunch) then dinner and Supper. Have no idea why...Here in Austria you have Frühstuck (literally - early piece of bread), Mittagessen (midday food or eating) and Abendessen (evening food or eating). There really are not other words for these meals and translated are interchangeable with dinner and supper. Regionally in PA I think it is pretty much similar, Western PA (where I went to college) was the same, breakfast, lunch and dinner except on Sundays where it was mainly brunch and dinner. Thinking a little bit, with a brunch, you normally only eat twice on Sunday, so with this logic, the second meal would be called dinner with supper omitted. These are just my thoughts.
Bis später,
von Österreich,
Mark
I'm sorry Joni,
I guess I ate too much at dinner and wasn't hungry for supper, or maybe I was out running around with my friends. Or maybe since Mom and Dad were younger then, they found more fun things to do than cooking..wink, wink.
I have been in Jersey too long, maybe.
Love you, Weez