Girl Dinners Throughout History

Perhaps there is no greater, grander tradition in history than that of Girl Dinner. As long as humans have traversed this planet—by foot, by horse, by Lime scooter—they’ve been too lazy to Martha Stewart together a full supper.

Sometimes it’s because, after sunset, starting a fire would have invited marauding neighbors. Other times, food was hard to come by after a village was invaded by Genghis Khan. Most recently, it’s because an oven takes too long to preheat.

Paleolithic age girl dinner.

 

Ancient Egyptian girl dinner.

 

Viking girl dinner.

 

Ancient Greek girl dinner.

 

Ancient Chinese girl dinner.

 

Ancient Indian girl dinner.

 

Roman Empire girl dinner.

 

FirstCentury Judean girl dinner.

 

Islamic Golden Age girl dinner.

 

Medieval English girl dinner.

 

Aztec girl dinner.

 

North American girl dinner.

 

A guillotine.

 

Edwardianera France girl dinner.

 

Eighties American girl dinner.