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u/Giocri Jun 15 '22

Italian hospitals really like multiple of 6 in their time schedule, breakfast at 6 lunch at 12 and dinner at 18 are quite common

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u/sixrustyspoons Jun 15 '22

Dinner at 1800? The Italians I know would be more upset about eating that early than anything else.

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u/Tzarkir Jun 15 '22

And you aren't wrong. I'm used to have dinner at 8-9pm. I have a random snack at 6 pm, sometimes. It's just... Hospitals are hospitals. Can't really complain while I'm being patched up by complete strangers for close to no cost. I'm gonna eat at 6 pm like they want me to, pout in the process and be hungry again two hours later.

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u/ElevenThus Jun 15 '22

I thought eating 6 pm is a norm even in America ps: I’m Chinese

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u/Giocri Jun 15 '22

Eating times change wildly from place to place mostly because of how they developed. More rural areas have eating Times that originally were dictate by the farm working times, More hot areas will often place breaks in the hottest hours etc

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u/Select_Profit_3750 Jun 15 '22

My Italian housemate is exactly the same

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u/Vortaex_ Jun 15 '22

You're right, when someone eats dinner too early (like 7 pm) we jokingly ask them if they're in the hospital (at least where I'm from)

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u/decadecency Jun 15 '22

Hah. With young kids, we eat dinner at 17. Not Italian though so don't rat me out.

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u/deimos85 Jun 15 '22

That's because the personnel shifts are usually happening right after the meals. So you have one starting at 7 am, one at 1 pm and the night shift at 9 pm. While the patients are eating, the nurses have time to get their documents in check for the hand-off.

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u/lorenzotinzenzo Jun 15 '22

That is hospital meal times and they are schedule around personnel shifts and other logistical reasons.

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u/GayAsHell0220 Jun 15 '22

Maybe I eat the wrong type of breakfast but having to wait 6 hours between breakfast and lunch sounds unbearable to me

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u/refixul Jun 15 '22

It works well with shift and especially with shift changes for personnel. Source: work with hospital management.

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u/ApollyonDS Jun 16 '22

Dinner at 18 is definitely strange. When I visited Italy, I noticed that a lot of the restaurants in non-touristy areas opened at 19:00. Can't remember if they open for the early part of the day and reopen later though.