Deciphering the Southern Conundrum: Why Do Southerners Call Lunch Dinner?
Prepare yourself for a culinary caper through the quirky world of Southern semantics, where lunch masquerades as dinner and linguistic mysteries abound. Growing up in the South, where Grandma's kitchen was a sanctuary of savory delights, I often ponder the perplexing paradox of mealtime nomenclature. While the rest of the nation adhered to the conventional wisdom of lunch at midday and dinner under the evening stars, in the heart of Dixie,...