Why do Americans eat dinner so early?

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[Sierra85]

what time do americans eat dinner that constitutes "early" ?

[Kaldriss]

early? in comparison to what?

[lockedout]

I eat between 5:30-6pm.

[Phookah]

First, generalization is general.
Second, what do you think is early? I eat dinner at anywhere from 5 pm to 8 pm.

[lockedout]

early? in comparison to what?

Non Americans?

[muto]

Is 7 pm really that early?

That's really late. I usually eat dinner around 4:30 to 5:30.

[lockedout]

That's really late. I usually eat dinner around 4:30 to 5:30.

I see you're one of those early Americans I've heard so much about...

[Fragarach]

Well, I'm Australian and I eat dinner anywhere from 7pm til 9pm if that helps people with something to compare to.

[Chingylol]

I eat 5-6pm.

[Dremall]

Usually around 630pm after I get home and shower. Seems kind of late actually.

[Tryuk]

It varies quite a bit from household to household sooooo....

I eat between 6:30pm to 7:30pm usually

[Buttonmasher]

5pm is like lunch or maybe a semi-late lunch to me. My friend eats dinner at like 5pm. I also tend to stay up much later, but even then I'll have dinner around the same time (9pm maybe) and then any food I want after that is just pretty much midnight snack like granola bar or something.

Then again, the sun pretty much never sets during the summer where I live (Alaska.)

[monkmastaeq]

if you're up at 6 am eating breakfast , lunch becomes 11 ish , eating dinner at 5 isnt unreasonable at all

[WintersLegion]

We normally eat between 5:30 and 6:30 mostly because one of the people in my house goes to bed not long after that to get up early in the morning for work

[Revoldt]

Most (white collar) working class people in SE Asia (Hong Kong), don't get off work till 6-630pm (standard practice).
So eating dinner after 8pm is pretty common here.

Guess Americans get off work early...

[Nathreim]

Cause its not good for you to eat dinner late.

[Synadrasa]

Who fuck waits until 8-9 to eat? I mean maybe for my second or third supper but definitely not my first.

[Zyster]

I eat dinner anytime after lunch till before I go to bed.

[Auxora]

We usually eat about 8pm and I'm in the US, so generalizing is generalizing. If Americans all at at 5pm the restaurants in the US wouldn't be open until 9-11pm as most are (and many later). But many folks do eat earlier. It's all personal preference, and overall it's better health-wise to eat earlier before bedtime.