Re: A Saturday Afternoon Snack 12/14/2024 😋

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:07:51 -0500, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

On 12/14/2024 8:28 PM, Bruce wrote:

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:17:50 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:
 

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:56:05 +0000, BryanGSimmons wrote:

You could quit while you're ahead and have the pears and cheese *be*
supper.
>

1.  It was too early call that supper.
2.  It was not filling enough to carry me through
    the evening and until Sunday breakfast.
3.  Next time I'll eat three cans of green shavings.

 
Dinner/supper is that a north/south thing, a socio-economic thing, a
religious denomination thing or an age thing?

>
Dinner is mid-day meal, supper is evening meal.

Dinner as a mid-day meal sounds weird to me. Of course, I'm not an
American.

I think etymology suggests that "supper" was made from left over dinner scraps, into
"soup".

I don't think so.

Where I live, I hear either that, or "lunch" being mid-day
meal.  It's usually older folks who still have "supper" in the evening.
>
On Holidays, we regularly have, say, Christmas dinner, or Thanksgiving
dinner, mid-day.  I'm not sure when the large meal switched to the
evening, with a light meal mid-day, but it really makes more sense to
have the larger meal mid-day to have energy throughout the day.  Me, I
just snack through the day, I don't care for any large meals.

A large meal mid-day, especially the amounts Americans eat, would make
it hard to do anything useful in the afternoon.

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Bruce
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