So I've been looking for main ideas for us to focus on, details about snacks that have evolved through history. This site is good and tells about the history of mealtimes, starting from the time of the Romans, and dating all the way to present America.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq7.html
There is a section right before the appetizers that talks all about American Mealtimes. It says that they mainly have evolved around:
- religious/monestary mealtime practices
- structured time in a church/war, easier to manage
- social status
*Definitions: Dinner-main meal supper-meal that follows
*Breakfast is also a new development, intended first for workers, small children, and invalids who needed frequent, small meals during the day; later, around the nineteenth century, the wealthy ate long and late breakfasts as a sign of their wealth.
*Colonial mealtimes were modeled off of European mealtimes.
*Meals in between meals are equal to snacks: tea, religious meals, second breakfasts, etc., they were just like scheduled snacks before the 20th century trend of snacking
*meal times changed dramatically in the 20th century as men's jobs changed, factory jobs and hours prevented them from coming home for lunch; public schooling also dislocated the children from the home at lunch; lunch and snacking, quickly around midday, became unscheduled and nonstandard because of the removal from the home.
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