all of these sweet confections were considered perfectly acceptable as a main course for lunch The part that's going unsaid here is that these things were acce

all of these sweet confections were considered perfectly acceptable as a main course for lunch The part that's going unsaid here is that these things were acceptable main courses because Americans at the time were not obsessed with putting things in their mouth every hour of every day. It wasn't nearly as common to eat breakfast, lunch, and then shove a thousand-calorie snack in between lunch and supper.