Where did the idea of three meals a day come from? Ancient Greece and Rome had two, as do most aboriginal groups apparently. The concept of "breakfast" seems to vary by culture, but whether or not the culture at anything in the morning doesn't seem to have had an impact on the total number of meals per day.
Rome had three traditional meals a day for the most part.
>>575092
>Ancient Greece and Rome had two, as do most aboriginal groups apparently.
source?
>>575122
Romans did not eat breakfast.
All I know is that I want to drink that coffee. It looks perfect. I'm drooling.
>>575092
I know that Rabbinical Judaism usually assumed that you'd have one meal a day, and 2 was for a holiday; with certain special feast days had 3.
speaking of ancient food, what was the typical Roman diet?
>>575689
Shitty fish, bread, olives, copius amounts of wine
>>575694
Mind you they diluted their wine, I think it was 1 part wine and 9 parts water.
>>575092
"Two meals" didn't include snacks, senpai.
>Eat snack before work
>Eat bigger meal mid-morning
>Eat afternoon snack
>Eat larger evening meal
>>575765
>I'll make up some shit and greentext it as if I know something about the subject
>>575926
he's not wrong
physiologically speaking your body would be healthier if you were constantly nibbling, followed by one or two heartier meals, as opposed to stuffing yourself two or three times a day. similar thing with sleep.
>>575995
Bro science
>>575092
Probably when food became easily accessible and affordable for the layman in Europe and the concept just spread via cultural/colonial osmosis.
Just pulling this out of my ass though.
>>576638
More meals doesn't imply more food tho
>>575709
I like to drink wine and beer over lots of ice.
>>576603
>When I drink wine I still water it down, mostly I add warm water to it because I keep the opened bottle in the fridge. I think I drink it 50/50.
You disgusting parasite
You should be stabbed
In the eyes
>>575709
Was is for economic reasons?
>>576680
I am sorry that you fell for the "wine is a sophisticated drink for sophisticated people that should only be consumed thus and thus" meme.
I imagine there is a special place in hell for people who believe marketing so bad that it defines their culture, and that its crowded as fuck.
>>576647
It's not so much the quantity of food and more how easy it is to get, store and prepare it.
>>575092
>Where did the idea of three meals a day come from?
With the industrial revolution I assume.
Workers had a morning bite before work for energy. A lunch break, and then an evening meal when they got back home.
I think it's a modern thing, particularly since the industrial revolution. That is when coffee in the morning became a meme too.
>>576694
I just happen to like wine and come from a country with an actual wine culture, don't tell me about marketing. Just admit you're an awful pleb, I rest my case
>>575092
Japan also doesn't do breakfast, at least not to the extent that we do. A small snack before work/school isn't uncommon, however.
>>576712
I too come from a wine country, but I am intelligent enough to realize that wine is a lower drink than even beer, and wine elitists are the most brainwashed cattle on the planet.
I dont like cold wine, and I live alone, so I either have to drink the whole bottle, or throw half of it away. Coming out of the fridge its cold, adding warm water fixes it.
Its something greeks, romans, and every living person have done for the longest time, until some genius decided to market wine as a fancy drink for fancy folks, and the elitism around it began.
>>576723
People started diluting their wine when it started tasting good, when it stopped being used as a water purifier. What the greeks and the romans drank barely contained 6% alcool when the average nowadays is about 12%.
It's winter so unless you live in the southern hemisphere you should be able to store it in your kitchen at room temperature. Btw I assume you're talking of white wine since red wine is supposed to be drank at room temperature.
>>576736
>stoped diluting their wine
>>576736
Red wine loses its taste if an open bottle is kept in room temperature over night. You arent very good at wine elitism, are you?
>>576745
Not if it's properly closed mate
And it can't taste worse than cold red wine heated with hot water
>>576682
>>575709
As far as I know is that in Ancient Greece they hadn't figured yet a way to control the amount of alcohol in a precise manner. This meant that the wine from back in the day was far stronger than the wine we consume today.
They also had a specific water/wine ratio depending on the activity and people involved.
Drinking wine without adding water was seen as barbaric.
>>576751
Even properly closed it NOTICEABLY loses taste. Not the made up 0.02% more bitter taste that people will spend thousands of dollars on, actual noticeable difference.
Buy a couple of $4 bottles of wine, open one and have a glass, cork it and on the next day compare the opened bottle and the closed one.
Noticeable drop in quality.
Repeat the same experiment in the fridge. Taste remains the same. Refrigerating open bottled of wine works.
Those are facts, repeatable, observable, science. Try it and come back, threads on /his/ last long enough to allow it.
>>576754
Addition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krater
>Ancient writers prescribed that a mixing ratio of 1:3 (wine to water) was optimal for long conversation, a ratio of 1:2 when fun was to be had, and 1:1 was really only suited for orgiastic revelry, to be indulged in very rarely, if at all.
>>576759
Here's one scientific fact : diluting your wine with water in order to heat it up is literally disgusting.
Now you we can discuss details, but all your arguments are swept away by the fact that you're a filthy wine duliting pleb.
>>576770
>muh feels
>muh opinions
I accept your surrender.
>>576762
Sounds about right t b h
The Greeks knew their shit
>>576770
the irony is that only plebs drank undiluted wine
>>576770
>scientific fact
>calling something literally disgusting
That's called an opinion anon.
>>575462
Well I guess now we know why their empire fell; Immigration, feminists, socialism and a lack of breakfast.
>>575092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UkZAwKoCP8
Guy from Hopkins/NIH talking about fasting and calorie restriction. I think there's something in here about when in the USA breakfast was marketed as the "most important meal of the day."
I know in Japan they wanted to push a new industry so they told people they'd be sick without meat. But then again if you have a waist over 31" your company gets fined because you're fat.
