On 10/24/2019 8:30 PM, nemo wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:12:45 -0400, Alex wrote:
>
>> KenK wrote:
>>> Meals that is. I was raised in Chicago where I got my meal names.
>>>
>>> To me the noon meal is 'dinner' and the evening meal 'supper'.
>>> Evidently some use 'lunch' and 'dinner'. Maybe other names. Seems
>>> everyone calls the morning meal breakfast.
>>>
>>> Just curious.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I thought dinner and then supper was a Wisconsin thing. I was raised in
>> the Chicago suburbs and it was always lunch and dinner.
>
> The term dinner was only used for the large mid-afternoon meal on Sunday,
> usually centered around roast beef. Otherwise, they were breakfast, lunch
> and supper. I always thought the terminology was a Southern thing. In my
> case, Georgia.
>
I lived in lots of places all over the US growing up. It was always
breakfast, lunch and dinner. I've heard "supper" but no one in my
family ever used that term for the evening meal. Living in the south
for going on 40 years, I never once heard anyone call the mid-day meal
supper, either. Only on television. YMMV.

Jill