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Someone who outsources three meals into fourteen small acts of grazing.
means A person who eats small amounts of food frequently throughout the day rather than sitting down to formal meals.
from Built from 'snack,' which comes from the Middle Dutch 'snacken' meaning 'to snap or bite,' as a dog snaps at food. English borrowed it around the 1300s-1400s mostly in that literal biting sense, and only later, by the 1800s, did 'snack' drift toward meaning 'a light, hasty bite of food.' Add the agent suffix '-er' and you get someone defined by the habit — the snapper turned grazer.
- portion math
- adds up to more calories than the meals they skipped
- biology excuse
- blood sugar dips every 2-3 hours, snacking exploits that
- marketing win
- snack food industry is worth over 150 billion dollars yearly
- social tell
- always has something in a bag, pocket, or desk drawer