Because most people think there are three ways of doing things.
The right (or correct) way
The wrong way
My way (their way, your way, etc.)

Many choose "my way"

 

I have always heard, and used, the term freeze plug. I have actually had them pop, but a very long time ago when I was'nt so mechanically inclined. Hopefully I am a little more vigilant now. As for Dinner & Supper, here in New England the old folks refer to the mid- day meal as dinner and the evening meal as supper. I suppose this is why they have Sunday dinners after church in the early afternoon. I have heard of Pot Luck Suppers and they are always in the evening. I would imagine, but I am not sure, one can trace this terminolgy back to the farming family in more agrarian times. The amount of the daily farm work necessitated a hearty meal in the middle of the day, of course to work with the proper amount of nutrition required for the afternoon chores. I suppose the evening supper was lighter fare due to the early bedtime schedule of the early rising farmer. Breakfast would be after the cows were milked and turned out , chickens fed, stalls mucked, and other animals tended to in the barn. After all those chores have an odor to them that one would rather pass upon after breakfast. I think the person who referred to lunch as a meal eaten away from home in the mid-day was correct.
Afterall, lunch wagons predate the birth of the diner of in the 20's, and they were simply a chuck wagon for the industrialized workers. Maybe they got the idea from the cow punchers in the west.

 

If you live in Mississippi, or even plan to spend any time here, it should be understood and accepted as gospel that dinner occurs sometime around noon and supper'll be ready some time late in the evening. Lunch does not exist in Mississippi, and if you come here and ask for it, we will look at you funny and laugh at you and make fun of you. It is not that we don't know what Lunch means in other places. We do. We just think you're funny and we aim to get yer goat a little.

 

You eat "Goat for Lunch" when you make fun of people ?

You Mississippian's are weird.

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Yeah, goat or possum, whatever's handy! We like to keep you folks from the Great White North guessing!

 

Sounds like somebody is "out to lunch".

 

Or out to dinner!!

 

>Yeah, goat or possum, whatever's handy! We like to keep you
>folks from the Great White North guessing!
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Come visit me in Calgary and I'll cook you something from my "Roadkill Cafe".
Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner,Supper,Bedtime Snack.
It doesn't make any difference to me.


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Actually, I'd love to. I spent some time one summer in Ottawa and Montreal and surrounding areas. Beautiful cities, and so much cleaner than ours here. I'd love to see Calgary. I'll even bring the goat, if they'll let me through customs with it!