To hate hearing the word SUPPER

[newnameoldme]

Even at my ripe old age I don't know exactly when or what it refers to.

It makes me cringe at the pretentiousness whenever I hear it used. Only slightly less if elderly posh person!

So saying you hate people saying "supper" (when it's perfectly natural for those people and they've always called it that) is reverse snobbery.

I know, but I was commenting on "supper" being taken from its working class origins by the middle class. If the word was adopted by the middle class in an attempt to look less posh, then that would have been reverse snobbery too. Even if these days it's used without that connotation.

Kitchen supper is worse.

Yanbu. Can't bear it. Also can't bear "dinner" and my mother used to go barmy if I used "tea."

So I am left with

"Come over for something to eat/pizza/something specific."

and

"IT'S REAAADDDYYY."

Hum.

I have always used supper for a meal at home and dinner if the meal is out or at somebody else's house. It has never occurred to me that anyone would think the word supper is pretentious. Crumbs. I've obviously led a very very sheltered life.

I don't actually like the word 'supper'. For some reason it ranks alongside 'moist' in my lexicon of words to avoid.

Aye it's the word rather than the connotations for me, with sppr.

Whereas "dinner" always makes me think of dog food.

What's annoying is people on here saying 'tea' is a Northern term. No its not! I live in the south-west and everyone here calls it tea.

Can't stand supper or tea, I only like dinner!

Supper is what you eat if you have an early, light tea and skip dinner. Or the very last meal of the day after an evening out. So a kebab on the way home after the pub could be your supper. So not posh at all.

Stranger And I'm northern and "tea" is dinner! Supper was toast before bed though growing up or a glamorous imagining of people in cloaks eating after the opera!

Supper to me is the cheese and cracker my granny and grandad would eat when watching every night when watching the Nine O'clock news.

So a kebab on the way home after the pub could be your supper. So not posh at all

I dont agree with that. Supper was a light snack before bedtime. Not something that would have sunk a battle ship.

YANBU it's so pretentious.

I would call supper a snack before bed.
We would say breakfast, dinner, tea and supper.

I just felt I had to point out that Jesus and the disciples didn't speak English but Aramaic and the Gospels were written in Greek, so they hardly would have used the words 'supper' or 'tea'. I think the phrase 'Last Supper' goes back to the authorised translation, from the 17th century so that does make the word somewhat old fashioned if referring to the evening meal (and the Last Supper was that).
For me the word supper has always referred to a snack before bedtime.

Interesting...........

I don't think of the word as posh at all, it sounds very working class to me. It makes me think of someone taking their boots off in a weary way and sitting down to a huge chunk of bread and some stew

Breakfast, lunch and dinner here (south coast) If you have a large late lunch you would have tea.

My theory is that 'supper' is what posh people say, to let you know they are posh.

In other words, posh people cannot wait to say the word 'supper'.

Never heard posh people saying it. My nan would sat it of a late dinner (ie after 7pm!). Yes, worked/studied/know lots of upper middle class people of the kind this thread associates with the word but never come across it since childhood.

But then again I file 'people moaning about middle class bubble shit on mumsnet' as vaguely ironic and reverse-snobby in the same way as some view supper. People talking about these magic middle class people who are never them although they have the same income, career, lifestyle, education, child care/school as them.

I'm bog standard issue middle middle class. Cut me open and there's probably a John Lewis guarantee etched into my rib cage. I don't sound that middle class till you hear the stuff I say not my Lahndan accent. So what.
Too many people protesting it too much.

Yes!

I thought it was me.

I've found my people!!

Supper is the evening meal if not going out, although we went to the Sainsbury's café for supper tonight, that really doesn't conjure up "dinner" for me!

Growing up in London and Essex
We always said
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Except on a Sunday or Christmas Day when we had:
Sunday Dinner at 1pm
Tea at 5pm - Usually some sort of Shellfish following by cups of tea and cake
Supper 8pm Cheese and Biscuits etc

I also refer to pudding as afters and yes I know that is so common!

I'm northern it's snack before bed. It's definitely not the main evening meal.
But we still have cobbles. race pigeons and breed ferrets.

Northerner 'ere. When I was little supper was tea n toast before bed. Now I live amongst middle class types I don't use the word with my kids as it sounds poncey and people would think I was referring to our evening meal (dinner) and the only person ive heard say it round here is a rather annoying posh bird who lives round the corner and comes from chipping-somewhere (she went to private school and had a pony).
People from the manc town I came from still call their snack before bed supper and it doesn't sound pretentious coming from them I.e. "D'ya want a bitta cheese on toast fer yer supper"
Clear as mud.

How old are you OP, do you remember this...

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