This has been debated by many for years. It is often thought that dinner is the noontime meal.
Some would say it’s a southern thing to call lunch, “dinner”, but I disagree. I am from the south and have always known dinner to be the evening meal sometimes referred to as supper.
I wanted to take the time today and clarify once and for all just what LUNCH is and what DINNER is.
DINNER
Dinner by definition is a meal normally consisting of a combination of cooked, or sometimes uncooked, proteins (meat, fish or legumes), with vegetables, and/or starch products like rice, noodles, or potatoes.
The word “dinner” comes from the French word dîner, the “main meal of the day”, from Old French disner. A dinner can also be a more sophisticated meal, such as a banquet.
Dinner typically takes place in the afternoon, but due to changing work patterns in developed countries (like the United States), dinnertime has slowly moved later in the day. In the United States, dinnertime is eaten as late as 7 or 8 PM, with two notable exceptions (Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner), which are still eaten during the traditional afternoon time. Continue reading →
