A Fish Supper

[naomi24]

Why do people never refer to a Meat Supper or a Vegetable Supper? Why just a Fish Supper? Any idea?

[roadman]

Dats a mad way to talk sounds like my nan i would never call it a fish supper just say im having fish and chips who refers to food as supper in 2021

maybe cus meat and veg is the normal they only say fish supper because it would be expected for supper to normally be meat and veg maybe

[Patsy33]

Perhaps, years ago it was a treat?

[emmie]

i am not sure, but i found this which i thought quite interesting at least i have learnt something.

Fish on Friday is an ancient Jewish custom There is an ancient Jewish custom to eat fish on Fridays because God created fish on the fifth day , man on the sixth day, and then rested on the seventh day–the Sabbath.

[emmie]

we always had a fish supper on friday.

[Sqad]

Well......a Fish Supper is notjust a FISH SUPPER.
Back in the "good old days, if one had a "cert" a hot date, someone really special 5hen one would treat her to a Fish Supper. All fish and chip shops or many had little cafes attached where you could have yourfish and chips sitting down,bread and butter and a cup of tea.
That was and is a Fish Supper.

[theshedman]

My mother laways used to call it a fish supper and any meal with meat was called a dinner didn't matter what type of meat. Maybe it's old school.

[emmie]

doesn't answer your question, but supper is generally a light meal of an evening, especially when you have dinner at lunchtime

[david small]

Meat and two veg, perhaps?

[naomi24]

Emmie, I know that’s the way it works for some - a cup of cocoa and a biscuit - but ‘Supper’ is also an informal dinner. I get the impression that those who refer to a fish supper regard that as a special treat - a bit posh.

[Sqad]

You can't have a Fish Supper at home.
It has to be at a Fishand Chip shop.
I thought that I had made that clear.

[naomi24]

Some seem to be unaware of that, sqad. They have 'fish suppers' at home. I didn't have a clue that it was supposed to be eaten in a cafe.

So if you ever took a hot date for steak, why wasn't that referred to as a 'steak supper'?

[barry1010]

I have only ever heard folk from 'oop norf' use that term - Scots and Geordies mainly

[Sqad]

Naomi......tradition.......in the "old days " one couldn't afford steak, but fish and chips was affordable and for that special occasion and just affordable, fish, chips, bread and butter, cup of tea, was Just affordable........the Fish Supper.

[Sqad]

Today it is just a meaningless term in this affluent new world which abounds, but yesteryear it was a meaningful concept.
Fish and Chip Supper.

[douglas9401]

It's from the days when the apostrophe was in every day use and fish was considered superior to the beasts of the field.

Towit, fish's upper.

[Chinajan]

// I have only ever heard folk from 'oop norf' use that term - Scots and Geordies mainly //

Point of order. Folk from the north of England don't generally pronounce 'up' as 'oop'. It's more like the 'u' in 'cushion'. Nor do we say 'norf'. That's mainly said darn sarf innit?

:0)

Anyway, came here to agree with Sqad that 'fish supper' refers to fish and chips from the fish and chip shop/cafe.

[barry1010]

Point of order, ChinaJan, where I live we say 'oop' and norf' :)

[Chinajan]

'oop' to rhyme with 'loop' Barry? Never!

[tiggerblue10]

I always associated 'fish supper' with a trip to the local chippy.

[FoxLee2]

I'm Jewish and it's never been the custom to eat fish on a Friday - I always thought that was a Catholic thing. Anyway, your working out doesn't make sense emmie as the Jewish sabbath is on a Saturday, not a Sunday.