I always wondered why humans eat together, such as in families or among friends as a bonding tool. What’s so important about ingesting food that we do it in a group?
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Humans are social creatures – banding together in small groups was advantageous for survival (and for the most part, is still a benefit). Early humans spent an inordinate amount of time hunting for, gathering, and preparing food – there wasn’t a ton of “free time” to just hang out and shoot the shit. And even in more modern times since the dawn of agriculture, for much of human history families didn’t spend time together as a complete unit much outside of meals.
So, basically all human cultures formed a lot of rituals around bonding over food since that’s really the only reliable time bonding could be done for the bulk of human history.
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