Dinner is lunch?

WTF??

yep...you catch my meaning just fine.

yeah i have heard the whole lunch dinner supper thing. so do you use the word lunch for anything?

killdeer wrote: By the way, dinner is what i had at noon, and supper is cooking on the stove for tonite, when the 'sun lays'.

It originates from pre-industrial times when people used to actually have to go work out in fields (I know, scary to some of you)...dinner was the work break to eat during the middle of the day (what a lot of people call 'lunch' now) and when the supper bell rang, work was done for the day. You would come in from the field, eat, shoot the shit and relax, and then go to bed.

Lunch on the other hand: "Lunch comes from a Middle English word 'chench', meaning a noon drink. It seems that it came to mean a light snack between breakfast and midday meal". Similar to tea time in old England, once the custom change and a midday drink was done away with, people turned it into a midday snack, which turned into a full meal, gradually replacing the "outdated" term "dinner" for a meal in the middle of the day.


http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question24954.html

Obviously, dinner still hangs around some instead of lunch...my dad used to say this all the time, and so I looked it up several years ago. Pretty interesting stuff, to say the least.

Pop in my book, and I am the obnoxious guy who when asked "would you like a soda" at a restaurant I always tell them no thanks but that I would like a pop

Pop here, though I sometimes say "orange soda" thanks to Kenan & Kel.

My sister goes to a small college in northern Georgia, and she is really annoyed by everyone calling it "coke." She's always getting into debates down there about it. There have been a few times at restaurants down there that I have asked "what kind of pop do you have?" and received a confused look.

Now it would pretty funny to see that the other way around:
southern guy in Ohio: "what kind of coke do you have?"
waiter: "um, just regular and diet" (or) "none, we have Pepsi products here"

as for the lunch/dinner/supper thing, my grandma is one that calls the middle meal dinner and the last meal supper. She also calls a couch a davenport

People who call it Coke need to be body slammed off the top of a cage into shards of glass by Mankind.

And looking at that map on the first page, I wonder what the deal is with St Louis. Looks like everyone in range of its TV channels calls it soda. Same goes for Milwaukee/Eastern Wisconsin, but for a smaller area. Those are the only 2 "soda" strong holds away from the coasts.

I guessing it has to have to have something to do with the way soft drinks have been marketed in those 2 regions over the years, or maybe some popular local company that had "soda" in the name?

NOL fan wrote: ........She also calls a couch a davenport

same here.

I was at a cookout in Georgia and a young man asked me, "What kind of cokes do you want? We've got Dr. Pepper and Orange Crush."

Lunch is noonish, supper is later in the day. Dinner is the main meal, either lunch or supper time, but never for breakfast.