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>> 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!

"Like beef, Haole boy?" meant you were being asked if you wanted to
fight. Since there were usually several of them, I'd reply with something
like "meata eata" or "yuck fu" or even "ride the rod". This normally
mystified them long enough for me to make my getaway.