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hydrospanner t1_jefm389 wrote

Reply to comment by Lopsided-Ad-6696 in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

My dad uses that terminology and it drives the rest of my family nuts.

Not so much just using the term "supper" even though I do think that's an odd term, but using "dinner" to mean the meal the rest of us call lunch.

It's made worse because sometimes dinner means dinner with Dad but sometimes it means lunch.

When I still lived at home we had a few incidents where this confusion ruined plans, so every time we're making meal plans, I will ask him now "midday meal or evening meal, dad?".

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hydrospanner t1_jeflimj wrote

Reply to comment by Wodan1 in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Seems like a little of both makes the most sense.

Long factory shifts and employers discouraging long breaks from productive work coinciding with a greater ability to cook and eat at home in the evening.

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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_jeflh1i wrote

Reply to TIL: About Earth trojans. Two asteroids that share our orbit, leading us around the sun. by RevolutionaryAd94

Asteroids and Trojans. Part 1: Introduction to asteroids and setting the scene. A look at the early formation of our Solar system and how that in turn relates to the general conditions of how and where the asteroids formed within our Solar system. https://youtu.be/Il_DM-_Sw0g

Asteroids and Trojans. Part 2: Kirkwood gap and the density and distribution of the asteroids. A look at the difference between the portrayal of an asteroid field in films and the reality of the one in our Solar system. The asteroids are widely scattered and even occur in distinct bands creating the Kirkwood gap due to the synchronisation of the orbits of the asteroids and Jupiter. https://youtu.be/ibXLAewSTCs

Asteroids and Trojans. Part 3: Asteroid composition and the Lagrange point. Looking at the three major asteroid types, Metallic, Carbon and Silicon and how the distribution of the Trojan and Greek asteroids around Jupiter relates to the Lagrange point and the three body problem. https://youtu.be/QUEJYsGNRWE

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