PEAK DINNERTIME IN THE U.S.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has compiled data on when Americans in each state eat their dinner, and the results might surprise you. (* Yeah, if you’re a weirdo who eats dinner at 8 in the morning.) A small percentage of Americans are eating dinner as early as 3:30 p.m. and as late as midnight. The vast majority, though, are eating dinner between 5:07 p.m. and 8:19 p.m., according to survey data. The peak time for dinner eating is 6:19 p.m. (* So, during the commercial break before Final Jeopardy.)
– The earliest peak dinnertime is Pennsylvania at 5:37 pm.
– The latest peak dinnertime by state is Washington, D.C., whose peak dinnertime is 7:10.
* Do we really want to be revealing this information to our enemies? Now they know the best time to attack us, right between “Come and get it” and “Pass the butter.”
* “The vast majority are eating dinner between 5:07 p.m. and 8:19 p.m.” Eating dinner for over three hours? No wonder Americans are getting heavier.
* If this is a “Labor Statistic,” they should include the time it takes to cook the damn dinner.
* Do these numbers take into account the vast number of grandparents eating the earlybird special at Golden Corral?