Meals

[CanadianGuitarist]

I need this settled.

 

I referred to a meal I had today around 3 as supper.

 

I got my bluff called on it, but I feel that supper is the main, or most memorable, meal of the day.

 

I was argued against, that supper was nothing more than a synonym for dinner.

 

Thoughts?

[Guest *KNK*]

My best meal of the day is lunch.

 

Supper=Dinner.

[Guest Fook]

KNK is right on all counts.

 

But a meal eaten at 3pm is neither lunch nor supper. It's kind of a "lupper" in the same vain as brunch.

[treble]

If I'm eating at 3, it's going to be lunch, since I probably couldn't go the rest of the day without eating anything else, even if it was something small.

[Guest Undertow]

Possibly could be called a Mid-Afternoon heavy snack.

 

Or Linner I guess.

[CanadianGuitarist]

But, let's use last Saturday as an example.

 

A co-worker and I went for lunch. The Plaice's mix and match, a platter of fingers, wings and fries, along with 6 beers between the two of us.

 

That's a hell of a lot more memorable than the can of whatever I ate for dinner alone in my apartment 7 hours later.

 

Can't I call the Plaice excursion supper?

[MrRant]

Because the dictionary says you can't.

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=supper

 

You didn't have dinner first nor have this mean before bed.

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

So supper is dinner, and dinner is lunch.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Dinner is whatever you want to call it. I've had early afternoon dinners before, especially if it's Thanksgiving and I'm going over to the in-laws...

[CanadianGuitarist]

Dinner is whatever you want to call it. I've had early afternoon dinners before, especially if it's Thanksgiving and I'm going over to the in-laws...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

So if you had dinner in the early afternoon, what did you have at the in-laws?

 

Tick tock, tick tock, I may be a winner.

 

If not, gimme this one anyway. I'm on my ninth brew of the evening and it's occuring to me that I suck at arguing.

 

Actual conversation between me and Red BAron 51 one day:

 

Me: I may go into politics one day.

RB: Nope, you're a pushover.

Me: yeah, you're eright, I am.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

That ticking is the sound of the bomb about to go off in your computer...

[Slayer]

Call it whatever the fuck you want to call it and fuck convention

 

When I worked overnights I would sometimes call my first meal (eaten at 6PM) breakfast and my last meal (5AM) dinner just to confuse people, although usually I would just say "I'm gonna eat" and not attach a title to my meal

[Corey_Lazarus]

It depends upon your schedule of sleep, really. If you woke up at, say, 11 PM to work at midnight? Then what could traditionally be called a "midnight snack" would be breakfast. What is "breakfast" would be your lunch, and what is "lunch" would be your dinner/supper.

 

Supper is just another synonym for dinner, not the most memorable meal of the day.