Dinner

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What is the difference between dinner and supper?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

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Clive · Answer

Hi,

When speaking of the evening meal, usually no difference is intended.

However, 'dinner' is the main meal of the day, and in some places people eat this in the middle of the day.

Clive

TMM · Answer

An American friend of mine said that in the US supper is eaten in the evening and that dinner can be around noon or in the evening. Breakfast is early in the morning.

In Brazil we usually have 3 meals a day. Breakfast (usually from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.), midday dinner and evening supper:

Our breakfast varies from region to region, but it usually consists of bread rolls, butter or margarine, coffee, and milk. Some prefer instant chocolate milk mix (some famous brands: "Toddy" and "Nescau") instead of coffee in the morning. Northern states also have couscous (traditionally made from cornmeal or flour ground rice) or beiju (more info here http://www.perthgluttony.com.au/2010/04/beiju-discovery.html ). Actually, Brazil is such a huge and multicultural country that "anything goes" is a rule of thumb for breakfast here. Nevertheless, everybody should agree that the first list of ingredients above could sum up a typical breakfast.

Our midday meal is our most nutritious diet. We usually have rice, beans, tomato and lettuce salad, meat, (and manioc flour in northern states). For meat we may have beef (cooked in many ways, but beef steak is the most common), roast or fried chicken, fish, lamb or pork. Not all families can afford meat, though. On weekends we usually have feijoada (a kind of stew with black beans, jerked beef and pork. You'll find more about it at Wikipedia.), fish, spaghetti or chicken. Lamb is less common, but again... It all depends on the region we are talking about since Brazil had many immigration floods. Portuguese, French, and Dutch in the North. Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German immigrants in the South. Besides, African and native Brazilian cuisine is spread all over the country.

Supper is usually what was left from midday dinner. Some families have soup, others snack, some eat out, specially on weekends.

We also have snack around 3 or 4 p.m., which usually consists of one, two, maybe three of these ingredients: coffee (or chocolate mix) and milk or fruit juice, crackers or sandwich cookies, maybe a ham and cheese sandwich or a breakfast roll, Brazilian fruits or some sort of industrialized stuff: potato chips, coated peanuts, bagged snacks... The multicultural aspect stilla applies.

Most Brazilians are heavy meat eaters, and we are proud of our sweets and desserts. Our most famous drink concoction is "caipirinha" (sugar cane rum, sugar and lime).

If you ever visit my country, do try as many kinds of foods and drinks as you can. You won't regret. However, take care not to overload your stomach (and liver)... Some of our recipes are really spicy and/or fatty. We love sugar! Some of our dishes are very salty and others may look... strange to a foreign eye.

Bom apetite! (Enjoy your meal!)

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