Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.

I only come for breakfast and lunch.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

That's hard to say. For lunch, I like the lasagna. For breakfast, biscuits and gravy.

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.