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What do you call the last meal of the day?
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etky
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 Fri, Jan 22 2021, 6:32 am
So here in Israel we have no such semantic deliberations.
Sort of like the unimaginative names of the days of the week and the months (in Tanach).
There's aruchat boker, tzaharayim and erev and for those who must have a snack in between there's aruchat eser and arba and for the really hungry - aruchat chatzot 
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Raisin
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 6:47 am
[quote="Debbie"] | amother [ Navy ] wrote: | I grew up in London. The midday meal was called dinner, at school we had a dinner room and dinner ladies (to confuse things even more, weirdly, in school, snack was called lunch - we had one regular lunch and one fruit lunch). The evening meal was called supper.
I worked in a school in Stamford Hill and never got used to the morning snack being referred to as 'lunch' to me lunch is sandwiches or a salad, not a few chocolate biscuits or a bag of pretzels.
Mind you I also didn't get used to a cheese sandwich being called 'A bread with cheese' or a salmon sandwich 'A bread with salmon!' |
we definitely didn't do this in my stamford hill school.
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Crookshanks
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:02 am
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Supper. Dinner sounds stuffy. Lakewood yeshivish
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amother
Honeydew
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:05 am
I always say "suppertime!"
Does anyone say "dinnertime"?
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amother
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:06 am
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Yes, that's exactly what we say. "Everyone to the kitchen, it's dinner time!"
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Crookshanks
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:15 am
In one of the old tapes, maybe the mitzvah tree kinder, they say "it's suppertime Nomi, please clean up!" This has become a family joke 
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NotInNJMommy
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:16 am
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I grew up in the midwest calling it "supper", but like many things, I've adopted the lexicon of where I am now (NYS, not in tri state area, but with lots of people from the tri state area originally)....and I now refer to it as "dinner".
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amother
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:25 am
Depends on what we are eating.
Motzi Shabbos it is supper. Most weeknights we have fleshichs and it is dinner.
If we have pizza on Monday night (shout out for all of you who have cheap pizza nite on Monday-who live in the community someone mentioned on the other thread where the Reformed Synagogue parking lot is used at night for Mikva parking) we sometimes call it supper.
Supper is informal and thrown together.
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amother
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:52 am
| Raisin wrote: | | we definitely didn't do this in my stamford hill school. |
YES! My husband is British and often calls lunch dinner. Now I know why lol
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amother
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 8:53 am
| amother [ Honeydew ] wrote: | I always say "suppertime!"
Does anyone say "dinnertime"? |
me!!! 6;30 is dinner time in our family!
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sub
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 9:46 am
I associate the word dinner with the fancy school dinner
So at home it’s supper time
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Rutabaga
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Fri, Jan 22 2021, 9:51 am
Both!
I grew up saying one, DH grew up saying the other and over the course of many years of marriage we've gotten so used to both that we've started saying whichever one comes to our tongues first.
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Chickensoupprof
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 11:44 am
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mommymama
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 11:52 am
| amother [ Coral ] wrote: | FFB native OOTer now living in-town (wow that's a lot of labels).
We always said "dinner" growing up, and I still call it dinner. My kids occasionally say supper but it drives me crazy (like the other in-town-isms, like "briefcase"). I was very happy to see the new Dinner Done cookbook  |
Just curious, what is the alternative to "briefcase"? 
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amother
Copper
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 2:31 pm
| balaboosta wrote: | | Just curious, what is the alternative to "briefcase"? |
bag/handbag/purse?
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amother
Purple
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 3:31 pm
A briefcase is the hard rectangular case with a small handle, like men used to take to work a couple of decades ago.
What else are people calling briefcase these days?
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amother
Crimson
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 4:41 pm
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What we OOT call a backpack, kids in NY call a briefcase. Nothing to do with the old fashioned briefcases men used to take to work - they are regular backpacks.
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amother
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 5:31 pm
| Crookshanks wrote: | | In one of the old tapes, maybe the mitzvah tree kinder, they say "it's suppertime Nomi, please clean up!" This has become a family joke |
Oh my goodness- nomi of the one with the garbage can that grew and grew until it was the most beautiful garbage can in the world?
Yeah- she definitely ate supper!
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amother
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Sat, Jan 23 2021, 5:36 pm
I do associate Dinner with an event at a school.
But I notice my Sefardic friend calling the evening meal dinner.
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amother
Lilac
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Mon, Jan 25 2021, 1:08 pm
| amother [ Purple ] wrote: | A briefcase is the hard rectangular case with a small handle, like men used to take to work a couple of decades ago.
What else are people calling briefcase these days? |
Backpack!
My daughter recently started going to high school in Brooklyn from OOT and she laughs about all the different cultural words. We’ve never said the word briefcase and looseleaf- it’s backpack and binder lol
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