{"id":45068,"date":"2025-08-05T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:18:10","slug":"gen-z-are-eating-dinner-at-6pm-and-its-because-theyre-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45068\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z are eating dinner at 6pm &#8211; and it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, where eating dinner at 10pm is common, there\u2019s even a word for the joy of drawn out dining: sombremesa. Literally translating as \u201cupon the table\u201d, the word describes the convivial time spent chatting and laughing with friends after a meal. (Americans, on the other hand, tend to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=45843X1573846&amp;articleId=b1241442&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fannals-of-gastronomy%2Fthe-underrated-pleasures-of-eating-dinner-early&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/gen-z-eating-early-dining-alcohol-b1241442.html\">eat dinner between six and seven<\/a>, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and there is no equivalent term for the joys of leisurely, communal feasting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Spain, where eating dinner at 10pm is common, there\u2019s even a word for the joy of drawn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25626,25625,59,4998,25627,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-45068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-dinner","tag-eating-habits","tag-gb","tag-gen-z","tag-ruby-tandoh","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}