Is it any wonder we’re starting dinner at 5?
Remember the good old days, when Americans callously mocked the early bird special crowd? Who’s laughing now? Precisely no one. We’re too busy wolfing down meatloaf at 3:30 p.m.

Between the Nov. 1 time change that makes dusk feel like midnight, the nation’s growing anxiety and depression, and the fact that we’re constantly home, it seems like dinner is getting pushed earlier and earlier. But who can blame us?

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