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Default What's for Supper??!!?


"Sky" > wrote in message
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> Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:35:04 -0600, Sky >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >hahabogus wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Don't you just hate when you can't make up your mind what to cook for
>> >> supper? When all the old standbys just don't appeal?
>> >
>> >Heh, you've described a dilemma I suffer rather often, and yes, I hate
>> >it. There're are many times when I cannot decide what I want to eat.
>> >Therefore, I tend not to eat for that meal. I call this my "special
>> >diet," and it's worked to some degree some of the time <vbg>.
>> >
>> >Sky, who hasn't yet figured out what to have for dinner tonight

>>
>> I thought it was "supper?"
>>
>> Lou

>
> I think there's a long standing debate whether the evening meal is
> called dinner or supper? Perhaps that's a geographric and/or familial
> thing? To me, the evening meal has always been called "dinner."
>
> Sky
>


True or not, I don't know. But we were told as kids, that city folks call
it dinner and country folk call it supper. And/or peasants call it supper.
Dee Dee