Supper?

[Chicken Run]

Can anyone explain what time one might have this, I ask as I'm hearing it more and more, "Kier and Cressida are popping round this evening for supper". Is it a posh word for dinner, a hipster name for an evening meal or and extra meal taken after dinner at say 10pm?

 

[GreersElbow]

I thought it was

Morning - breakfast
11:30-2:30 - Lunch
4:30-6:30 - Dinner
6:30- - Supper.

But living up north, apparently lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. Barbarians

 

[Pogue Mahone]

When I was growing up it's what we always called the evening meal.

I call it 'tea' now, which I previously thought of as a northern term.

It seems to have become the posh word, but I don't remember it having those connotations in the past.

 

[Bakero]

I thought it was

Morning - breakfast
11:30-2:30 - Lunch
4:30-6:30 - Dinner
6:30- - Supper.

But living up north, apparently lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. Barbarians

Dinner at 4.30?

 

[seagullsslimjim]

From the web -

Technically, dinner is the main meal of the day served at any time from midday onward. Luncheon is the midday meal if the principal meal is in the evening, while supper is the evening meal if the principal meal is a midday-midafternoon.

 

[bhanutz]

Can anyone explain what time one might have this, I ask as I'm hearing it more and more, "Kier and Cressida are popping round this evening for supper". Is it a posh word for dinner, a hipster name for an evening meal or and extra meal taken after dinner at say 10pm?

As someone that went to a private school!

 

[Stat Brother]

Why pop round for a bowl of weetabix, in their jimmyjimjams?

 

[dazzer6666]

'Supper' is whatever is in the fridge when I get home very late and a bit drunk.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Can anyone explain what time one might have this, I ask as I'm hearing it more and more, "Kier and Cressida are popping round this evening for supper". Is it a posh word for dinner, a hipster name for an evening meal or and extra meal taken after dinner at say 10pm?

Yes, just as dinner is a posh term for tea.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

When I was growing up it's what we always called the evening meal.

I call it 'tea' now, which I previously thought of as a northern term.

It seems to have become the posh word, but I don't remember it having those connotations in the past.

You're posh, and ahead of your time

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Is it a posh word now? Growing up it was whatever my dad ate about an hour after he'd eaten dinner. Usually cakes, bread, penguins(the chocolate biscuit not the animal) and anything else he could get his hands on before getting shouted at.

Dinner being the main evening meal(I wanted to say dinner there but....). Apart from on a sunday when we had a roast dinner at lunch time and then tea(sandwiches or egg and beans or something similar) at dinner time. Lunch, of course, was at lunch time which was the meal in between breakfast and dinner(unless it was a sunday in which case...). Breakfast was always in the morning. Until I went to uni then it was at lunch time, lunch was at dinner time and dinner was a kebab after chucking out time at the pub.

 

[tonyt]

It was once explained to me as dinner but without ties.

 

[GreersElbow]

Dinner at 4.30?

I put a range for a reason...

 

[brakespear]

breakfast, lunch, tea, supper

 

[British Bulldog]

breakfast, lunch, tea, supper

The old way I remember was breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. Lunch appeared later in life.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

You're posh, and ahead of your time

Well...yes, to both.

 

[Brian Parsons]

My mother worked in service and there is no set time for breakfast. Then came elevenses followed by lunch followed by afternoon/ high tea. Evening would be an evening meal if dinner wasn't being taken. If dinner was on it was usually taken quite late in the day 9 ish. There would often be a cold table left for nibbling often called supper cigars and brandy a la Downtob Abbey.

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[Thunder Bolt]

Breakfast 6-8
Lunch12-2
Afternoon tea 3.30-4.30
Dinner after 6pm
Supper after 9pm

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

[MENTION=11350]LamieRobertson[/MENTION] is the man to ask.
He is always preparing it-eating it-or washing it up when I call him!

 

[UTT]

I thought it was

Morning - breakfast
11:30-2:30 - Lunch
4:30-6:30 - Dinner
6:30- - Supper.

But living up north, apparently lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. Barbarians

Lunch does'nt exist up here.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Pudding
Afters