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Is the Esperanto word for "supper" really necessary? Or any of the other languages- this is an encyclopedia, not a multilingual dictionary.

I agree that the translations of the word supper are irrelevant, no other pages have that kind of thing. Hence I've deleted them. Lexy lexy 17:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

In Spain, supper can be as late as ten or eleven p.m., although this is partly because Spain uses a time zone that is almost two hours off true local time.

I doubt it: dinner at 10 or later was a well established custom in Spain long before the country adopted Central European Time. -- Picapica 22:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Am I the only one that thinks the first sentence makes no sense? How can the "last meal of the day" come "before" any other meal?

Supper is never used as a term for the evening meal anywhere in the United Kingdom. I grew up in London in the 1980s-90s, and supper was the normal term for the evening meal; indeed I rarely heard anything else. This sentence, therefore, seems misleading.

I agree. I always use the word supper for the evening meal. The differences between "dinner". "supper" and "tea" in the UK are related to area and social class - rather complicated. I've simply removed the sentence. Rueful Rabbit 11:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Supper is the name for the evening meal in some dialects of English - ordinarily the last meal of the day, usually the meal that comes after dinner. I'm judging by my own reaction and the previous two posters that the first line of this page is not entirely true. I've always referred to the meal of "dinner" or "tea" as supper. Suggest rewrite to be "can be either the main evening meal or a light meal after dinner" to cover both usages. Or similar. Segat1 15:43, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Which countries?

In the US and Canada, there's pretty much no such thing as supper - by far the biggest meal of the day is dinner, which can be had as late as 7pm. By contrast, in Russia supper is eaten at 8pm or so and is a lighter affair, with the biggest meal being dinner which is eaten at around 2-3pm (lunch is not eaten).

Some people I know from the United States refer to the main evening meal ("dinner" or "tea") as supper, in common with the United Kingdom. --Mal 15:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I think that something should be mentioned about these different eating patterns. Esn 06:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

  • When I was a kid, my Dad and I visited farming cousins in Manitoba. What I called "Lunch" they called "Supper." So, Breakfast, Supper and Dinner were the three meals of the day. (They also said Grace, which was new to me.) Has anyone else seen this use of the word "Supper" for the mid-day meal?

[edit] GOD I LOVE WIKIPEDIA

Where else can one find out where the word supper comes from! :D... Zoiros 07.05.2007

[edit] Supper is always an evening meal ...

Wrong. Look it up in a dictionary, it's also the word for a midday meal. My nana used to call lunch "supper" and I looked it up because I thought she was crazy ... She was crazy, but she was right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.186.128 (talk) 17:29, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Should Wikipedia include truistic statements?

In this article, we are told that a "fish supper" is normally a meal of fish and chips. Wow! I do not think many readers would have guessed that - I bet that most of them thought that a "fish supper" was a meal of roast lamb and mint sauce! Well, I am speaking in jest, but I do this to highlight the truistic nature of the statement - do we really want to have truistic statements littering Wikipedia articles? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

There are many other meals you could have with fish as the main course of a meal. If a fish supper refers to a meal of fish and chips, as opposed to a meal of trout and asparagus, that may be sufficiently noteworthy.--RLent (talk) 22:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)