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!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. It's the reason I can't watch Nigel Slater on TV!

Haven't rtt but supper is just an evening meal! Tea is sandwiches & cakes around 4pm. Dinner is after 8pm with friends or out, but if we eat at home it's supper.
I don't see it as pretentious, just depends where you were brought up 😄

YANBU it makes my skin crawl!

Where I grew up in Ireland supper was your evening meal .
Moved to England and over time picked up the habit of calling the evening meal "tea" instead. That grates on my family back home... Tea is a drink not a full meal
I think it's a bit nuts to be offended by terminology imo.

My 5 year old is currently obsessed with supper and it irritates the hell out of me for some reason!

YANBU, you're well within your rights to object, even though it's plainly a matter of taste rather than objective right & wrong.

I only have one upper class posh friend and he calls the evening meal supper. Everyone else I know calls it dinner.

To me dinner is something grand or fancy e.g. at a posh party or restaurant. Supper is normal family evening meal. But say what you like! Who was it who said that it is impossible for an Englishman (or woman) to open his mouth without making some Englishman despise him?

I just think of hyacinth Bucket. It's either a class marker (Like owning an old hacking jacket) or a pretentious marker ( like pronouncing foreign word with an accent when you don't speak the language).

I'm with you Op totally. My sister uses it purely to sound posh and it absolutely grates on m nerves. I grit my teeth and say nothing.....

I love the word supper! . For me it's toast and hot chocolate or a bowl of soup at around 10pm. We use dinner at home but I do love when I hear supper instead of dinner , it sounds charming.

She also calls Mum Mother. No one would believe we are from the same family

Hubby calls dinner (as in the meal we have in the evening) LUNCH! Drives me nuts!!

I'm so common I hate it when people say'dinner' for the meal they have at night. It's tea.

I've always said
Breakfast...... obvious
Lunch........... obvious
Tea..............meal between 4.30-6pm (kids)
Dinner......., meal between 7-9pm
Supper....... snack between 10-11pm
Obviously we don't eat on all those occasions, when we he kids were little they had tea and we had dinner

Absolutely hate the word supper. Brings to mind horrible slurping dribbling ....uggghh!! DH (courtesy of southern prep-school upbringing) uses it, but I stick 100% to tea...which does sound much lighter than the full-on evening meal we have, but cannot abide supper.

What about Nigel slater do people find smug and pretentious?

Not keen on 'supper', although I make allowances because my mum sometime says it and I find it sweet when it comes from her. But generally don't like the way the word sounds!

I like Nigel's writing and quite like him on TV.

Blimey01
I'm with you Op totally. My sister uses it purely to sound posh and it absolutely grates on m nerves. I grit my teeth and say nothing

I'm betting your sister uses it purely to piss you off It's the type of thing I'd do to my sister, I love her dearly but I still enjoy teasing her.

What about Nigel slater do people find smug and pretentious?

Try googling Nigel Slater Smug.... there are literally dozens of hits 😁

Then try googling Nigel Slater quotes......

I think it's regional rather than snobby. Where I come from (rural) the traditional meals were breakfast, dinner ( hot meal), tea (bread, maybe salad, maybe ham or boiled eggs, or maybe something cooked like sausages) and then supper - about 8 or 9pm, sandwiches, cake etc. Posh people had lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner.

Someone above just used the word 'brekkie'. Now that reaslly does give me the rage. To me, supper isn;t a meal but a couple of biscuits and a glass of hot chcolate before bed (or similar.)

*mug of hot chocolate, obviously. Actually, hot drinks in glasses also give me the rage. Costa, take note.

I grew up in Yorkshire. We had breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner was at "lunch" time, but it was called dinner. Tea was the hot meal at home in the early evening. We very occasionally had supper later on the evening - crackers and cheese, hot chocolate, etc.

I'm now living in the south and we now have breakfast, lunch and supper. "Dinner" is reserved for eating out at a restaurant or at someone else's place after an invitation.