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[ftmichael]

Nathaniel just posted asking what everyone calls their evening meal. I generally call it dinner, but when I commented, I realised that I don't really know what people in other parts of the US do, other than that people in the South seem to call it supper more often and people in the North seem to call it dinner more often. I was reminded of The Pop

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[morgwensraven]

I was born and raised in the south and was always told it was dinner.. though I live in new york state now and I hear different answers depending on where the person is from.

[ganimede]

Northern England, specifically Lancashire, and here it's tea. Generally eaten somewhere between 5 and 6.

The poll seems to lean very strongly towards dinner being the word of choice in the US. No one has picked anything else and I'm the only person in the entire poll that doesn't say dinner. Bunch of freaks, the lot of you :P

[ftmichael]

I've been surprised by that too! It seems skewed somehow because I'm sure lots of Americans call it supper. More people should vote. I'm considering linking to it on Facebook.

[ely_m]

it is good idea to link it on facebook since many people are using facebook.

[ice_cream_eyes]

I call it dinner and we eat around 7pm. The mid-day meal is lunch.

However . . .

My grandparents always called the evening meal supper and called the midday meal dinner. They were from the Depression Era and raised their 3 sons (my dad and uncles) in the 50s. We are in Massachusetts.

So maybe it's a generational thing...

[sheppeyescapee]