FOOD TRIVIA: How do you start your day, with dinner or breakfast? 

The early Romans (approximately27 BC) started their day with a a porridge-like substance to “break the fast” between the evening meal and the first meal of the next day. The word for that meal in Latin was “disiunare” from the Latin element “dis” meaning - reversal, and “iunare” meaning - "fast". Later it was shortened to “disnare” or “disnar” and later, in old French, to “diner,” which meant, at that time, the first big meal of the day; the one that broke your fast from the evening before, i.e., “breakfast”. It further devolved into the English word “dinner” In medieval time’s, food writers emphasized that only two meals a day should be sufficient and that eating more often was “beastly.” Therefore, people were expected to eat well in the morning (dinner) and then have a smaller meal in the evening. Later on, due to a variety of reasons, intermediate meals were added, and the larger meal was eaten later in the day. Thus, the word “dinner”, originally meaning the meal that was eaten to “break one’s fast”, is now used to indicate the last and largest meal of the day while the word, "breakfast” became the word we use for the first and earliest meal of the day.