DINNER or SUPPER?
T he word ‘dinner’ comes from the French word ‘disnar’,
which means ‘breakfast’. Traditionally, dinner was the first
meal of the day, eaten around noon, and the largest meal of
the day. A lighter meal came later on during late afternoon,
which was known as ‘supper’.
The word ‘supper’ comes from the French word ‘souper’
meaning ‘evening meal’. It’s said to come from Jesus’ last meal
before his crucifixion: The Last Supper.
As time passed and people began learning more about how
the body reacted to additional smaller meals and snacks in
between, with a relationship to healthier lifestyles, dinner and
supper became synonyms to ‘eating the last evening meal’.
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The use of ‘dinner’ or ‘supper’ may now depend on where
you grew up and how old you are. For example, British writer
Charles Dickens, made distinctions of the two words, much
as we would now for ‘lunch’ and ‘dinner’:
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“It is somewhere about five or six o’clock in the afternoon,
and a balmy fragrance of warm tea hovers in Cook’s
Court. It hovers about Snagsby’s door. The hours are early
there: dinner at half-past one and supper at half-past nine.”
– Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853
There are over 60 names for this familiar breakfast
dish, including toad in a hole, egg with a hat, egg in
a trash can, gashouse eggs, egg in a basket, bird drop,
bull’s eye, Marty Wilson, Mary Jane, one-eyed Susie,
lazy-eyed pirate, fireman’s toast, hole-in-one, bregg,
cartwheel, doughnut egg, moon over Miami, belly
button egg, spit in the eye, and a man in a raft. What
did you grow up knowing them as, and do you still
make them today?
Celebrating over 25 years
Some suggest ‘dinner’ became a later occasion with the rise of
industrialization, when more North Americans began working
outside of home and couldn’t return to eat their main meal
in the middle of the day. Dinner got shifted to the evening.•
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