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Cake day: November 7th, 2025

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  • Thank you so much for the detailed answer which considers the entire scope of human history. Much insight into different cultures.

    In the 80s it was rare to see people drinking water, except for “health food nuts”. It was far more common to see soft drinks/sodas. Over the years, society has become more accepting of drinking water.

    This is very interesting to think about


  • Swaus01@piefed.socialOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldWhy do we eat dessert?
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    If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.

    False.

    Yes your principle is right though. I just wonder how the society evolved to like eating sugar as the last meal of the day. Is it rooted more in hunter-gatherer lifestyle or in, say, rennaissance onwards lifestyle from after the Old World discovered sugarcane in the caribbean? I know there was an insane effort to use sugar in as many foods as possible, so as to make good on the investments into the expeditions and colonisation projects there.


  • milk-based Has it’s own natural sugars and usually comes in the form of custard (Added sugar) or ice cream (added sugar) or cream (extra fatty)

    fruit based Has it’s own natural sugars and usually comes with added sugar in the form of a pie, ice cream, jelly, jam, sugared fruit, canned fruit, et cetera

    Not only do we not eat dessert right before bedtime

    I do 😉 busy life i guess.