Talk:Supper

message: I'm pretty sure the Tagalog word "hapon" means "afternoon", not "noon". 198.70.193.2 (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc

message: In the US and Canada, there's pretty much no such thing as supper - by far the biggest meal of the day is dinner, which can be had as late as 7pm.  By contrast, in Russia supper is eaten at 8pm or so and is a lighter affair, with the biggest meal being dinner which is eaten at around 2-3pm (lunch is not eaten).
: Some people I know from the United States refer to the main evening meal ("dinner" or "tea") as supper, in common with the United Kingdom. --Mal 15:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My family comes from the upper Midwest of the U.S., and we normally call the last meal of the day "supper" (although we'd understand "dinner" to mean the same thing and use it occasionally). Food right before bed is called a "bedtime" or "nighttime snack," though I suspect this isn't particularly regional. :) Seethaki (talk) 03:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I grew up in rural North Dakota and the last meal of the day, served between 6 and 7 p.m., has always been called supper. The noon meal is usually called both "lunch" and "dinner," though I always associated dinner with a big family meal and lunch with lighter fare. I would assume "supper" is the usual term throughout much of the Midwest/Plains states. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 15:58, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

text: In New York (City), there seems to have been a change of usage during my lifetime.  When I was a small child in the early '50's, I usually heard the evening meal referred to as "supper," though, like Seethaki, I did understand "dinner" to mean the same thing.  By the time I was ten or so, "dinner" had taken over completely.  Perhaps this was a family thing, but others I have compared notes with say the same thing.  For many years I have only heard "supper" used for the Last Supper.  What do other New Yorkers have to say about this?  Kostaki mou (talk) 04:10, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I was going to say the same thing. I went to school in Australia, and school functions in the evening sometimes provided a "supper", which was usually sandwiches and cake and that sort of thing. (I figure it helped make up for the fact that you probably wouldn't have time for a proper dinner.) That was the only time we ever used the term "supper".  24.114.228.117 (talk) 04:58, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Which countries?

message: Where else can one find out where the word supper comes from! :D...
Zoiros 07.05.2007
For a farmer in western Canada there are the following meals:  breakfast, lunch which is a bag taken out to the field hence "bag lunch", dinner which is a meal eaten indoors at noon, and supper which is the evening meal usually around six p.m.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.142.209.23 (talk) 19:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GOD I LOVE WIKIPEDIA

message: Wrong.  Look it up in a dictionary, it's also the word for a midday meal.  My nana used to call lunch "supper" and I looked it up because I thought she was crazy ...  She was crazy, but she was right.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.186.128 (talk) 17:29, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you thinking of the term "dinner"? My grandmother used to say "dinner" to mean a midday meal (whereas nowadays it's usually an evening meal). But I'm pretty sure "supper" is always in the evening, and every dictionary I look at says the same. 24.114.228.117 (talk) 05:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Supper is always an evening meal ...

message: There is a section that reads: "In the South, traditionally "dinner" refers to the mid-day meal, and "supper" refers to the evening meal, though folks understand that outsiders typically are referring to supper when they say dinner." Shouldn't the term "folks" be something more appropriate like "Southern people" or "they" or simply left out altogether with something like "though it is understood that outsiders..."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.217.241.235 (talk) 02:38, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of term "Folks"

message: In this article, we are told that a "fish supper" is normally a meal of fish and chips. Wow! I do not think many readers would have guessed that   - I bet that most of them thought that a "fish supper" was a meal of roast lamb and mint sauce! Well, I am speaking in jest, but I do this to highlight the truistic nature of the statement  - do we really want to have truistic statements littering Wikipedia articles? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many other meals you could have with fish as the main course of a meal. If a fish supper refers to a meal of fish and chips, as opposed to a meal of trout and asparagus, that may be sufficiently noteworthy.--RLent (talk) 22:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Should Wikipedia include truistic statements?

message: Xiaochi includes the unsourced statement
:Xiaochi form a large part of the traditional fourth meal of the day, the xiaoye (宵夜; "supper" or "midnight snack").
where that xiaoye link redirects to here. Which... um... peachy... But over here we have no mention of China at all, let alone the idea that it has a secret fourth meal built upon midnight streetfood nosh. (I feel like Chinese culture would gain a great deal in popularity if this became more widely known...) Could someone please 
 source this?  include some more details over at supper? and  move the Chinese characters over there per ? — LlywelynII 02:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese

message: The claim in the section on etymology that supper "is related to soup" does not have any citations to support it. Vorbee (talk) 14:55, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Related to soup

message: Emily Post's 1945 book is cited as the basis for the Modern Usage section. I think that explains why that section seems a little... antiquated. I think there should be some kind of change here. Rlitwin (talk) 20:42, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Emily Post

message: The article says "supper was ..." but supper is something that I eat regularly and use the name "supper" for. If it is a meal still used in certain places should we remove the "was"? —Panamitsu (talk) 08:11, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's with the past tense?