My sister has started calling her evening meal supper ...

[TheFateofOphelia]

She was talking about having friends round for "supper" on Friday. I was puzzled as she knows, and I know, that supper is a piece of toast if you're feeling peckish at bedtime.

Apparently, now she's moved to Surrey she no longer has her dinner between 12 and 1, she has lunch. Now I'm ok with that but AIBU to draw the line at her having supper at tea time?

I eat all my meals at the sitting room table because my kitchen is too small and I haven’t got a dining room.

I do use a tablecloth and cotton napkins though and it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner in my house.

YANBU. That sounds so twatty to my ears, and all the more so as she never used to say that and you share a common upbringing, where supper means a snack before bed.

It's taken me thirty years to get used to dinner being an evening meal, rather than a lunchtime one. Supper is just a ponceyness too far.

Jim jams and hottie bottie 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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If the people your sister is spending time with use different words then she needs to adapt. Otherwise she’ll be turning up to someone’s house at lunchtime when she’s been invited to dinner (by people who would otherwise be having supper at the same time if other people weren’t invited).

supper is a piece of toast if you're feeling peckish at bedtime.
It isn't.
SUPPER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

It’s a slippery slope. Next she’ll be calling it “kitchen sups” and before you know it she’ll have had a full lobotomy.

Love it 😂

Ahhhhh but a table cloth is not posh. Conversely cloth napkins are.

But jilly cooper says you can invite people round for " kitchen sups"

It is indeed the law here.

You can informally have guests for supper.

The more I think about, the stranger the rules are.

Surrey here - it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is a drink!

🤣🤣 love this ( RIP Patricia )

Mrs Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) would disagree!

Does she have a sofa or a settee?

Toilet or loo?

Movie or film?

I have only ever heard it used by people much older people and it is something they eat after their dinner shortly before bed

I’m from Sheffield.

Breakfast, dinner tea is what we have. Supper is hot chocolate and a biscuit before bed.

I’d go NC

How To Get On In Society
Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.

It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me

Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

Tea time is little sandwiches and cakes.

Or if you were my granny, also a salad (lettuce) and some hard boiled eggs.

All with a tea pot on the table.

Me too and a meal in the middle of the day is lunch. My husband is from the North and calls lunch dinner . I'm a Southener.

And with riparian entertainment? (RIP Patricia Routledge).

I know someone who dumped someone because their use of 'supper' ground his gears. 🤣

Vacuum cleaner or hoover, living room or lounge, toilet or loo?