In Spain we are famous for having dinner very late. However, when we travel, it seems to us that in other countries dinner is very early and we are surprised if we find restaurants closed at 10:10 at night. But who is right? Who consumes the last meal of the day before nine o’clock or those who do it after this hour? A map showing the abysmal difference between the hours for dinner that exist from one country to another It has gone viral and has reopened the debate.
There are cultural reasons behind the time when you usually eat in a country and those in Spain should be studied because this map made by the specialized account @loverofgeography makes it clear that our country is the one that dines later in all of Europe: between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
This supposes a distance of up to five hours with the earliest of the continent that are the Norwegians. In Norway, dinner starts at 16:00 or 17:00. as much. A few hours in which in Spain we have not even finished eating yet, or we are having a snack.
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Norway wins but the rest of the Nordic countries are not short either… Thus, in Finland they start with dinner between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., in Sweden between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Nevertheless, The most common thing in European countries is to have dinner between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., being only southern Europe where it arrives at 9:00 p.m. More specifically, we have Italy and Greece on our side with a schedule that goes from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Although, the one that is closest to us is Portugal with a time frame that covers from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. In this way, the Portuguese do not leave us alone in reaching the closed night with the plate on the table.
In networks, users have commented that these schedules look very influenced by the time at which the sun sets in each country, as well as the one in which people leave work. To this, in addition, we should add that Spain is not in the time zone that corresponds to it by nature, but rather that we are an hour ahead of the one that corresponds to us, which contributes to the days being longer and dinner being delayed.
Photos | @loverofgeography
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