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!

If you're not posh, it's a snack before bed. If you're posh it's a light version of dinner. If you're neither, it doesn't exist.

So many ironic typos...sigh.

When I was a kid, only very rough families called the evening meal supper. Now i only ever hear very posh people say it. Here we would have breakfast/lunch/and either tea or dinner, used pretty much inter-changeably. (Going out for tea would be somewhere like Pizza Express, going out for dinner would be fancier, three courses and wine.)

We often use tea or supper but the most common thing we use in the privacy of our own home is 'sup' as in (Kids) 'Mam, what's for sup?' Or (Me) -- 'sup's up'

Is that making everyone's toes curl. 😁

Oh shit it is supper not super, ignore my post! (I am dyslexic!)

We used it growing up and it's what I call an ordinary mid week family evening meal. I can't use tea for anything other than 4pm (even come over for tea after school means 4pm-right?). However I think it might be pretentious as I don't think DMIL who is much posher than me (borderline aristocracy) ever uses it. I think it's just really middle class (and probrably southern).

It's also quite American to say 'supper' for the evening meal. In old Hollywood films, children were sent to bed without supper as a punishment. That was clearly a meal and not just a bedtime snack.

We also have 'dinner at lunchtime' when we have cooked main-type meal at lunchtime, at least that's what I call it. It irks my husband for some reason.

I never use the word supper, in any context, personally. Though I've attended suppers, on rare occasion, late evening meals at homes of friends.

What happened there, Abernathy. You've taken up most of a page there

As hobbits would say:

Breakfast - 7am.
Second breakfast - 9 am.
Elevenses - 11 am.
Lunch - 1 pm.
Afternoon tea - 3pm.
Dinner - 6 pm.
Supper - 9 pm.

Have a look at this I hope it wasn't Blackpool Rock my nan was going home and having for her supper after a hard night's work

I'm not posh, but I say supper for evening meal at 6:30 ish and not dinner - which I think of as a posh dressed-up meal at 8 pm, as in a dinner party ( I've never actually hosted a dinner party at home).

Lunch is at lunch time.

We have breakfast, lunch, tea or dinner (we use both) and then supper.

People round here are so keen to use the word supper that they even use it to describe their three-course dinners, often in dining rooms, with linen napkins and silverware, as suppers. I'd imagine that if they were invited to dinner at Buck Pal they would still say they were going to supper with the queen. In their desperation to be seen as posh, they don't realise the faux pas they are making. I swear it's become a more recent thing, almost as a pp said, a way of self-branding oneself as UMC.