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!

'spose so. It just seems such a very ridiculous thing to 'hate'.....now a good parking thread, that's a different matter

I say pudding................and I say dessert.

I never say sweet or afters though. I have some standards.

dessert is bringing an americanism or restaurant term into the home - no call for it

brunch is specifically a meal eaten out in my opinion, usually on sundays - no reason to call a mid morning bacon sarnie at home anything other than a snack is there?

Altered - but were you "raised" or "brought up"? Isn't "raised" more an American term? Like trash/rubbish etc?

Do you know, I've never eaten supper.

I don't like the word hobby, especially when used enigmatically on a MN thread.

squoosh

newnameoldme I have had many a brunch at home, but they were usually more than a bacon sandwich. Brunch also replaces breakfast, and often lunch , but a snack replaces neither.

I was brought up to have lunch and tea, now say lunch and dinner and have a IL family member who used to say lunch and supper but has married someone from up North and now says dinner and tea!
(which I find strange as in other ways she tries to be very naice)

Very confusing is language. And class.

I'd use the word supper for a later meal, post children bedtime

Isn't "raised" more an American term? Like trash/rubbish etc?

I thought you were being v controversial and implying all Americans are raised like trash. Then I read it properly!

StarHeartDiamond I spent part of my teenage years in the US so I am trouble like that.

altered

Oh, cool. I don't think I've ever heard somebody use the word sweet. But it does make a lot of sense. More than the whole pudding "thing".

I remember being terribly confused by the word pudding. Seeing as it could be used for sweet foods and savoury foods (like black pudding etc)... But that's what we were taught when studying English...

I'm common as much and my old granny used to make my sister and I a nice supper before bed.

We ate breakfast, dinner, tea and supper.

(Golden syrup butties and a milky coffee. How the hell did we survive childhood?!)

Nope, not a posh word round here (up north but not as far as Scotland )

Supper is typically when you get the nibbles later on in the evening after dinner/tea or whatever you call your main meal Probably around 9-10 pm in my house. But could be earlier or later I guess it depends on how long it was since your last ate. My dad used to finish work at 10pm and he would always have supper when he got home. Nothing too heavy - bowl of soup or piece of toast or cheese and crackers or my fave - garlic bread

Altered - I thought so!

Supper , the 730-8pm meal!

It depends doesn't it.

Some people use it to mean a later dinner, think Hyacinth Bucket and her candlelit suppers. Others use it to denote a late evening snack, something along lines of cheese on toast or crumpets.

I only use pudding, not dessert or afters.

'Supper' used to describe the evening meal makes me cringe. IME it's usually used by grown adults who refer to their parents as Mummy and Daddy. And who use the words 'gosh' and 'golly' and sometimes both together.

QuietNameChange I think pudding is confusing because it can refer to a sweet course at the end of a meal, a steamed sweet dish, like treacle pudding, or a sausage type savoury dish, like black pudding and white pudding. Then there's Yorkshire pudding, which falls in to none of these categories.

I wondered if black and white pudding just comes from the French "boudin", and was anglicised as pudding,

Seriously that's daft do you have lots of class issues?

I think pudding is confusing because it can refer to a sweet course at the end of a meal, a steamed sweet dish, like treacle pudding, or a sausage type savoury dish, like black pudding and white pudding. Then there's Yorkshire pudding, which falls in to none of these categories.

And that's before we even get to the minefield that is mincemeat.

Southern, working class - breakfast, lunch, supper.

My DC are northern middle class, and have breakfast, lunch and tea.

Although I think the real class indicator here is giving a shiny shit about what other people call a meal they eat in the privacy of their own homes.

YANBU.

My father famously came home from work one evening in the 70's and asked my mother in what she later described as 'the most chauvinistic way,' what was for supper. The question so annoyed her that she hurled a bread knife at him.

For the record, yes he is still alive and they are still married. There was a big dent in their freezer for many years after that however where the knife hit.

It's only pretentious if it's a "kitchen supper"

altered

Yes, I used to be very confused by this

But I've gotten used to it. And when I moved to the UK and most people around me actually spoke English it all kind of started to make sense. I think it's often like that when studying a foreign language.

At home we simply have what roughly translates to morning meal, 9am meal, midday meal, 4 pm meal, night meal. It's simpler in my personal opinion (but then again, I grew up using these words. So anything else would probably be somewhat weird).

I have no idea where the word pudding comes from, tbh. But so many modern English words were originally French, it would make sense, I guess?