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!

Poor Nigel Slater. I think he's great, heebie jeebiness and all!

Supper is fine.

It's a bedtime snack for us (SW).

What you say is pretentious sounds like some inverse snobbery to me, OP.

Except on Christmas day when we have pork pie, pate and cheese and biscuits.

Before settling down for a nice bout of gout

I had no idea so many people had toast or cereal before hitting the hay.

Supper is a cup of tea or glass of milk and a slice of toast/digestive biscuit/pancake before bed. Haven't had supper in years but my granny didn't like to go to bed without a wee bite.

Maybe it's a UK vs elsewhere thing then, because I don't know of a single Canadian who would assume supper meant anything posh! It's just the meal you eat at 6pm

Now then... class war, North - South divides and all other issues can be put aside, anyone using either "picky tea" , "picky bits" or similar needs to be put up against the wall and machine gunned. Now.

It reminds me of Bridget Jones when she always has to go to suppers alone. What posh people call dinner parties

Elevenses is not brunch!

Brunch replaces at least one meal. Elevenses is additional. And brunch is a proper meal - eggs benedict or something - while elevenses is a KitKat with your cup of tea.

Yes OP I hate it too! I know it's a perfectly valid word but it makes me squirm. Especially when pronounced SAPPAH! by someone very posh (sorry posh people). Or even worse, "It's just a kitchen supper"

To me it's dinner that's pretentious.

Dinner is a smart or formal supper only.

Calling spaghetti bolognese 'dinner' seems odd.

But I'm aware it's just idiom. I like the northern 'tea'.

YANBU at ALL

Someone invited us to a kitchen supper once, I was convinced we would be given toast and hot chocolate.

"Picky bits" brings to mind extracting botfly larvae, or sifting through mealworms. Ugh.

Yes to the PP who mentioned Nigel Slater! He really gets on my wick with his simple supper pretentious rubbish. We have to turn the tv off when he pops up 🙈

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Never ever supper

Here supper is the evening meal DH and I share at 8ish. Dinner would be in a restaurant or more formal meal with guests at home.

YANBU

Brekkie
Dinner
Tea

Supper is a piece of toast before bed.

Yes I also feel a bit uncomfortable if I'm invited to "picky bits" :o it makes me think of chimps grooming each other.

hmmm I still hate the word and the connotation which to me is a feigned pretence at being the sort of people who eat supper, ie landed gentry/ etonians/ the bloomsbury set/ theatre lovies!

the confusion over when and what it is seems to underline this point.
it makes sense that some service staff would adopt it and misapply it at home..

therefore i conclude it is classist and naff and pretentious as well as a pointless word as there is a universal confusion about what it refers to!

I think it's rather pretentious too. I mean, I don't mind Nigella Lawson saying it quite unironically because that's the background she's from, but Nigel Slater –sorry mate but I just know you had breakfast, dinner and tea as a child.

NB so did I [common as muck] and although I now say lunch and dinner instead, I could not use the word supper seriously for an evening meal. Supper is a snack before bed.

I hate "tea". Unless you drink tea and eat cakes to go with, why do you call it tea?

I use dinner to differentiate from the schools, where the last meal is called supper, but I am not that bothered. Nothing fancy in the word dinner, it's just a normal meal.

Tea is just the word for the evening meal in certain areas/classes.

In my house "picky bits" is called "random fridge crap".

I'm aware some people object to this usage of "random".

I hate the word supper too, for no other reason than I simply hate the sound of the word.