Three-meals-a-day norm framed as socially constructed and illegitimate
[narrative_framing] The article traces the origin of the three-meal structure to industrial labor needs, not biological or cultural legitimacy, undermining its authority.
“The idea that we should sit down for three meals at roughly the same time every day has become such an essential part of how we organise our lives – even when we’re failing to do it – that we forget it isn’t the natural order of things. Instead, it is a regime that was created not to serve the needs of our bodies or to give us pleasure... but to fit in with a day of labour.”
