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To hate hearing the word SUPPER

519 replies

newnameoldme · 10/05/2017 13:37

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!

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Addley · 10/05/2017 13:55

Meal when you get up or within a couple of hours: breakfast
Snack midmorning: elevenses
Meal midmorning in lieu of breakfast or lunch: brunch
Meal middle of the day - small: lunch
Meal middle of the day - large: dinner
Hot drink and tiny sandwiches in the afternoon: afternoon tea
Evening meal - normal: dinner OR tea, depending who I'm talking to
Evening meal - large, with guests or out of the house: dinner
Bowl of Rice Krispies or a crumpet before bed: supper

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 10/05/2017 13:55

How is 'supper' posh? 'Fish supper' has to be the most down to earth evening meal possible.... Confused

Brittbugs80 · 10/05/2017 13:57

My Mom calls it supper. She's 75, Scottish and uses it to describe her pre bed snack after tea.

I'm indifferent to the word but I massively cringe to read one Facebooker/Instagrammer/Blogger refer to herself as "cooking my family a gorgeous, nutritious and wholesome supper"

Addley · 10/05/2017 13:58

Not all in one day though usually.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 10/05/2017 13:58

I thought it was more regional than class based and also used to refer to a late meal that's not quite dinnery enough to be called dinner. Luncheon though, that is posh!

diddl · 10/05/2017 13:58

"Supper to me is a bit of toast before bed."

Naa!

Ovaltine & digestivesGrin

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squoosh · 10/05/2017 14:01

I don't mind supper although it's not a word I'd ever use myself as I'd feel like a fraud. 'Kitchen supper' does make me roll my eyes though. It's a bit too Chipping Norton set for me.

'Do come around tomorrow night, it will just be a kitchen supper I'm afraid as Jenkins has the evening off'.

scottishdiem · 10/05/2017 14:01

You can prize my:

Fish Supper
Burger Supper
King Rib Supper
Chicken Supper
Pizza Supper
Haggis Supper
etc

from my cold dead hands (probably death from clogged arteries and/or obesity but hey ho. The supper stays).

MaybeNextWeek · 10/05/2017 14:02

Supper as a kids snack before bed fine. 'You must come round for supper' as in socialising makes me cringe a bit too, strangely. Its dinner or drinks imo. Unless you're 5.

Louiselouie0890 · 10/05/2017 14:02

Supper is a snack before bed

StoatofDisarray · 10/05/2017 14:02

What else would you call the last meal of the day?!

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 10/05/2017 14:04

Supper in my family is the main evening meal unless we are dining out or having people over when it is referred to as dinner.
No idea why but had always the been the case.

Ilikecheeriosyum · 10/05/2017 14:04

You've got, breakfast, elevensies (brunch), lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper :

Which is way too much food in one person in a day I think, but when I visited care homes, they stuck to this to keep residents strength up and perhaps ply them with cake and biscuits ;)

squoosh · 10/05/2017 14:04

What else would you call the last meal of the day?!

Dinner.

mrsmalcolmreynolds · 10/05/2017 14:05

I used it throughout my childhood to refer to the evening meal when eaten at home. So, "supper is at 7:30" and would still use it in that way. Funnily enough, now I come to think of it I would never use it to refer to eating out in the evening though - that would always be going out for dinner. And the children's evening meal (about 5:30/6 usually) I would call tea.

I am professional middle classes as I suppose were my parents although they were both from working class backgrounds, first in their families to go to university and not at all pretentious.

I have to say OP that your protestations about cringing, not knowing what it means etc. are to me just as bad as trustafarians making jokes about not understanding when people refer to "tea" as a meal rather than a drink. Both are IMO pretty nasty.

LovelyBath77 · 10/05/2017 14:05

Definitely not posh here, raised in Scotland , Glaswegian father and Yorkshire mother, supper is a snack before bed, tea or dinner is the main evening meal.

randomer · 10/05/2017 14:05

tea....thats what it is surely?

Sunnydaysrock · 10/05/2017 14:06

Can't stand it either, it's on my list of words that make me cringe (joint first with holibobs). We always have dinner. If the kids want 'something to eat before bed', that is what we call it. Can't even put my finger on why I hate it so much.

mrsmalcolmreynolds · 10/05/2017 14:06

X-post with Keira!

InDubiousBattle · 10/05/2017 14:06

I use exactly the same set as Addley. Supper is crumpets/toast/cereal before bed. Except on Christmas day when we have pork pie, pate and cheese and biscuits. Just in case we haven't got quite enough food down us throughout the day!

HeyRoly · 10/05/2017 14:07

FWIW "supper" feels like a pretentious word to me, and I grew up in a working class Essex family.

It's also synonymous with Nigel Slater, so I get extra heebie jeebies Grin

cjt110 · 10/05/2017 14:07

supper is cereal or toast before bed at around 9pm

BeMorePanda · 10/05/2017 14:07

Dinner (evening meal or lunch?, and Tea (drink, 4pm, or evening meal) are not any less confusing.

Palmtree · 10/05/2017 14:07

Posh evening meal (either at restaurant or in friend's dining room with other guests = Dinner
Casual evening meal in kitchen or in front of telly = Supper.

Well, in our gaff those are the definitions (for context I was brought up in Brum and now live in the south-east).