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!

Anyway, i thought it was made quite clear Jesus and that lot were just having a bit of bread last thing at night. Hence, supper. They'd clearly had their main tea earlier in the day.

It's supper here, always has been!

Dinner is something that you go out for, or ask people for a formal type evening. Kitchen supper is what I say when I ask people over during the week for a relaxing meal around the kitchen table. It is so the recipient of the invitation knows what the occasion, and therefore dress, is meant to be.

Kitchen supper.

In our house Supper is the evening meal. Breakfast, lunch and supper. Children have tea a bit earlier and dinner is a more formal evening meal.

Pretentious 😂😂it's really not, it's what most people local to me with the same up bringing call their evening meal.

It's like me saying referring to 'lunch' as 'dinner' is common, it's not. It's just regional variations.

lots of lovely inverse snobbery going on here. par for the course on MN I guess. sigh.

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.

Funny you should mention that, I grew up near Chippy! 😂😂

I let the Last Supper pass as a child as a one off happening in Jerusalem of old!

My kids have it around 7pm, usually crackers, toast or cereal

Aw as a kid we had supper as a snack before we went to bed so that's what I think of if I hear the word "supper"

In the US, supper is a word (mainly South and Midwest) for a less formal evening meal. It's the opposite of posh.

Funny you should mention that, I grew up near Chippy!

I knew it!

Have you ever invited someone over for nibbles and sipsies though?

ooh Sapphire, where did you get that goss about Nigel and Nigella? my husband enjoys watching Nigella jiggle in the bosom area when mashing potatoes or similar. (Irrelevant. But, to me, quite funny.)

Supper and TEA Von

Vom even

I had always assumed supper was more casual and a maximum of two courses, but often just a main course. Dinner is normally a minimum of three courses, more formal, often with guests.

However, my OH insists dinner is at lunch time and his reasoning is that 'we had dinner ladies at school so it must be called dinner'. Could be regional, he's Northern, I'm from the South East.

I could also be wrong here but have always used dessert for something cold after supper/dinner, and pudding for something hot. So cheesecake or lemon tart would be a dessert but rhubarb crumble or apple pie (with custard) would be pudding.

Don't understand the hatred of people using different words though, I like that we're not all the same.

Supper is our regular evening meal, casual and usually at the kitchen table. Dinner is more formal, in the dining room, and with fancier food. Tea is a cup of tea/cake etc or small children's post-school snack.

Cromwell, either here or maybe Popbitch. It was a while ago.

Supper and Tea.

2 words that i really dislike hearing, irrirate me too. no yanbu

Scottish here, and we have:-

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper (which is a pre bedtime snack)

Born and brought up in NE Scotland,

We always called our evening meal supper

I never heard it called anything else until I met English XH and he called it Tea

YANBU! I cringe when I hear the word it sounds so try hard it's untrue. I also hate 'tea' it sounds so crap because tea is a beverage not food.

Anyway I'm working class North London born and bred. I've only ever had three named meals a day. These are: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Anything else is a snack or you say 'I'm still a bit peckish/hungry' or 'I fancy something' then eat said something. Those meals don't have a name.

"Picky bits" actually makes me want to hurl.

Tea/Dinner/Supper - it's interchangeable to me.

I have a vair posh friend who invited me for "supper". I was confused as in my house that's a bowl or Rice Crispies before bed.

I hate supper too. Such a horrible word. Sounds like someone slurping gruel