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Interestingly 'three meals a day' comes from an American advertising campaign. The book 'Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal' goes into it all[0]
by groffee 5y ago
Interestingly 'three meals a day' comes from an American advertising campaign. The book 'Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal' goes into it all[0]
It's kind of crazy that such fundamental parts of our society are shaped by advertising and after a couple of generations we all just accept it because it's 'always been like that'.
[0]https://b-ok.cc/book/2226584/5b1aad https://b-ok.cc/book/2226584/5b1aad
- pigeonhole123 5y agoSimilarly I’ve heard our fear of the sun can be traced back to a L’Oreal campaign in the 80s
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoNonsense. Us vampires predate L’Oréal by centuries.
- jwarden 5y agoI read a lot of history, a lot of old books, and travel a lot, and I think that makes me more resistant to the frequent claim that “such and such is a recent invention of (oppressive, capitalistic) contemporary society.” Throughout the world that I have observed first- and second-hand, morning and evening and in-between meals have always been pretty common.
- jwarden 5y ago“Eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a peasant at dinner” (Moses ben Maimon or Maimonides. 1135-1404)
- kzzzznot 5y agoKellogg’s also told everyone that breakfast was the most important meal of the day https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfa...