Have you ever met up with friends for dinner and their dinner time is way, way different from yours? If you usually eat dinner at 5:30, their 8 p.m. reservation might seem extremely late, and vice versa!
On a typical day, what time do you usually eat dinner? Before 5? Around 6? 7? Does it just depend on the day?
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You need to know that in the Midwest, dinner is often the noon meal, and supper the evening meal. Hense the term “supper clubs”. If you’ve ever been to a good Wisconsin supper club, you’d respect the difference.
Didn’t Culver’s family start out as a Wisconsin supper club?
Yes, it was mentioned in one of their early commercials.
Supper Clubs, Friday Fish Frys, and Brandy Old Fashions are still in “fashion” here in the Great State of Wisconsin!
The fishing is great, the beer is cold, and you don’t have to go far to find either.
Come on up and visit us when you can.
Smelt frys in the spring. I remember all-you-can-eat smelt fries with a small salad bar, and French fries at the local VFW.
Sven, you from down by Westby way?
Growing up, dinner was the mid-day meal. Supper was the evening meal.
Supper/dinner was always between you 6-8 with 4 kiddos and balancing work schedules, sorts, boy scouts. Then became empty nesters and time was between 5-6 the retirement came and time moved to 5. So meal times are breakfast at 8, lunch maybe it’s a hit and miss the dinner. Growing up it was supper in the military it was dinner and 20 years later it never went back to the term supper.
I too grew up with the term supper for the evening meal. “Dinner” was a noon-ish, or a bit later on holidays and Sundays. (Until I was in high school, I was able to walk home for dinner at noon.) I still call the evening meal supper most of the time.
We generally eat at 4:30-5 at home, and it’s not a huge, fancy meal. I can’t really eat a meal after 6, due to digestive issues, so if it gets too late, I settle for yogurt or such.
When we’re camping, we eat when it seems right, which can be as early as 4.
My husband and I usually eat dinner/supper between 5 & 6. When we visit our son and family whose time zone is an hour behind us it makes it challenging because they usually eat around 7pm which is 8 pm our time. We try and eat a snack to hold us over.
When I was growing up we did not eat dinner, in fact I don’t think I ever heard the word until I was in my teens. We had breakfast, lunch, and supper. Even today, I seldom use the word dinner.
I’m from the south. I always eat dinner around noon. Dinner is often the main meal with supper being leftover dinner or a light meal. Lunch is what you carry in a brown paper sack. Supper is the evening meal.
My grandma grew up on a farm where the meals were breakfast, dinner and supper.
Growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, supper was at 5:00PM sharp. It coincided with the evening news, and preceded the evening milking/chores. No longer on the farm, so no set supper time now.
Here at home ( sticks and bricks) it’s 6 pm (jeopardy time). Later in some time zones but never earlier than 5 pm
Before my wife’s failing health we would eat dinner every day at 6:05 pm; no special reason – the time was just how it worked out! Now, that I have to cook my own dinner, (my wife no longer eats regular meals), I watch the news from 5 to 6:30 – then often Wheel of Fortune – then I prepare whatever – soup if I forgot to take something out of the freezer! Usually between 7-8pm. I’ve tried the easy, quick meals, however the salt (Sodium) content is extreme in those. I am not salt restricted and I don’t want to be either!
As we have aged, my husband and I find that we do not sleep well if we eat much after 6:00PM.
Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 It varies, but usually either when I get hungry, or when supper is ready, whichever comes first.
Usually between 4-5pm.
I eat “dinner” about 11:30 am and I eat “supper” around 6 pm. Yes, I’m a Southerner. Dinner is the midday meal.
At home, we normally eat between 5 and 6:30. When eating out it’s between 4 and 5 to beat the crowd.
We eat the evening meal between 6 and 9 pm. Back in the Midwest, on the farm, we ate Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Lunch and Supper. Lunches were brought out, by the “womenfolk”, to where the “menfolk” were working.