It’s certainly an element to it, combined with a lack of leisure time resulting from longer working hours and weaker unions. The power of the automobile industry in infrastructure design certainly didn’t help either.
Still, the way we eat is so deeply ingrained in culture that I can’t help but feel it goes deeper than this. People will not eat in their cars in Turin even though it’s very much a car city. I’m from up north in Scandinavia where distances are greater (though more in time than in distance, as we travel on small winding roads rather than highways), and eating in the car still seems somewhat unheard of there.
Not that you’re wrong - I think there’s a profound change in culture that has taken place, but I agree the distances in the US would certainly be one of the mechanisms behind it.
I’m curious if people eat in their cars in Latin America now.
It’s certainly an element to it, combined with a lack of leisure time resulting from longer working hours and weaker unions. The power of the automobile industry in infrastructure design certainly didn’t help either.
Still, the way we eat is so deeply ingrained in culture that I can’t help but feel it goes deeper than this. People will not eat in their cars in Turin even though it’s very much a car city. I’m from up north in Scandinavia where distances are greater (though more in time than in distance, as we travel on small winding roads rather than highways), and eating in the car still seems somewhat unheard of there.
Not that you’re wrong - I think there’s a profound change in culture that has taken place, but I agree the distances in the US would certainly be one of the mechanisms behind it.
I’m curious if people eat in their cars in Latin America now.