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I've found myself having to say "supper" instead of "dinner" and "dinner" instead of "lunch" in order to avoid confusion.
I've always known the meal hierarchy as
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
But here, as in many parts of the south, it's
Breakfast
Dinner
Supper (SUP-pah)
Other quaint language nuances:
* A "dressed" sandwich is a loaded sandwich (specifically, a po boy);
* "On ice" means anywhere in the fridge, not just the freezer;
* "For true" means "really," as in, Me: "Wapner's on at 9." You: "Fah true?"
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Do they sit on a couch or a sofa?
Posted by ? @ 12/20/2002 10:42 AM EST
Maybe if we had started calling lunch "dinner" and dinner "supper" we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years. :-)
Posted by ~ @ 12/19/2002 07:47 AM EST
Yup, I'm in Baton Rouge. Stephen's mom is a great cook. We had grilled shrimp over bowtie pasta for din, er, uh, supper, last night, and tonight we had chicken gumbo with french bread for dippin'. Delish.
I recalled another quaint Loosianaism late last night. I've heard a couple of people use it: You don't "watch" TV or a TV show, you "look at" it, as in: "Is theyah anything to look at on the TV tonight?"
Posted by Huffy @ 12/19/2002 12:37 AM EST
Where y'at??? I love Louisiana. Never heard anyone else anywhere refer to lettuce and tomato as "dressed."
Posted by Tiff @ 12/18/2002 05:12 PM EST
Ah do declare they's a mite peculiar down south.
Posted by . @ 12/18/2002 04:17 PM EST