On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:32:29 -0400, jmcquown wrote:

> 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

Being an Army brat,I lived in a number of places also. Attended the first
grade at Frankfort American School in Germany, lived in Tennesee a few
years and in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks. While in Hawaii, I developed a
real taste for Li Hing Moi which are sweet and sour dried plums. After
the initial shock of the first one, it was a taste that grew on you. I
was also fond of dried red cuttlefish tenticles. They were not overly
fishy or salty but were deliciously chewy. This was in the mid '60s and I
attended Leilehua High School in Wahiawa where I quickly learned that
"Like beef Haole Boy?" was not a question about food!