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My casual observation is that a lot of Americans are obsessed with snacking. They can’t imagine going without food for a few hours.
by vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago
My casual observation is that a lot of Americans are obsessed with snacking. They can’t imagine going without food for a few hours.
- Xenoamorphous 1y agoHonest question (and I’m not from the US), do you have kids?
- Milpotel 1y agoQuestion as a parent: kids do need constant snacking now? I know some kids who do but they are overweight.
- cpursley 1y agoSnacking is an American/Anglo world thing. As are terrible manners in general. Civilized people sit down and eat at the table, and that includes having their children do the same - even for snacks (there are some exceptions, of course). That also goes for devices at the table, either at home or restaurants (truly incredible that people abuse their children this way). Yes, I have very strong opinions on this as a father who's seen that there's another way called "being a parent".
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Snacking is an American/Anglo world thing It’s spreading. The notion that if a child is hungry the only solution is to feed them immediately.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoExactly. People seem to think being hungry is not acceptable.
- Xenoamorphous 1y agoAs a spaniard, we had the concept of “merienda” way earlier than any globalisation happened.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoMerienda isn’t mindless snacking though.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoI don’t have kids but I was kid. We almost never had snacks. There were no parents that would bring snacks after soccer practice. You just ate what you got during regular meal times. And sometimes you would pack a sandwich.
- llm_nerd 1y ago>They can’t imagine going without food for a few hours. The best example of this phenomena is the movies. People start snacking the moment they enter and continue through the whole show, which is a conditioned response that theatres quite literally created -- normalizing that it's a "part of the experience" -- for revenue production. Can people really not fathom going a couple of hours without stuffing their faces? It's bizarre. I feel the same way about flying. It's amazing how demanding people are to be fed on even short flights, when the whole process is just annoying and overbearing.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoAnd both on flights and in theaters you are given the worst quality possible food.
- cpursley 1y agoHuh? International flights generally have very good food.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago“Very good” is relative and I meant more the snacks you get on domestic flights.