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🍇 The History of Snacking and Why We Do It

LIP #198
Aug 01, 2024

Did you know the word snack comes from an old Dutch word meaning to bite?

Way back before grocery stores, people picked up small bites like berries and nuts while hunting or traveling. Snacking was actually a survival skill.

After World War II, America built a culture around being productive, and that is when modern snacking took off. But chips and cookies are very different from the whole foods people used to eat.

Think of a snack like a pit stop in a car race - you are not stopping for a full meal, just quickly refueling to keep going strong.

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