The bet was that you were going to take me to lunch or dinner, ... So what's it going to be?

What's it going to be, lunch or dinner?

Incidentally, you know that we made a bet?

I think some people take for granted where their lunch and dinner come from. I don't think they really stop and think about what it takes to get their food on the table.

And you can get a sit-down [meal] usually much cheaper at lunch than you can at dinner. So why not splurge on the midday meal and then try to economize later in the day?

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.