Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

fortytwo@gdn.net writes:
>Speaking of dinner: when is dinner for y'all?
>
>I use dinner synonymously with supper for the final meal of the day.
>But, my room-mate last year used it for lunch, confusing me at one
>point, when he said that he had dinner with his parents, and I looked at
>my watch, and it was only 2 in the afternoon or something like that!  He
>realized that it was a dialectal usage, tho, and clarified that he meant
>"lunch".
Dinner for me is always the last biggest meal of the day. It usually falls
around 5 pm here at home (sometimes later, but never past 8 pm). With
friends, dinner can happen any time from 6 pm (as it was tonight when i
went out to eat with them), to 8pm which was out usual time last semester
(we all had late classes and didnt get out til about 8 pm). My Grandmother
who is from Kansas always calls the meal in the late afternoon supper. I
dont think i've heard her call it dinner much. However, I usually take
supper to mean a light meal, even if it is at dinner time. Heavier meals
are most definately dinner for me.

For the other meals, breakfast can be at dinner :) (I call any meal
involving eggs, bacon or sausage, and toast a breakfast meal).I usually
don't eat breakfast in the morning (i can't stand to eat then......).
Lunch for me happens from 11 am til 2 or 3 pm.