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Comment author: brazil84 09 February 2014 09:33:12PM 0 points [-]

You can generally keep the kids in line better at an Applebee's than when you actually have to watch the food.

I don't understand your point . . . are you saying that it's easier to control your children in a restaurant than at home?

IMO, the reason for that is that the meals you want to show off are usually the fancy foodie sort.

Assuming that's true, I don't see how it contradicts or qualifies my point. Can you explain?

Comment author: Alsadius 09 February 2014 11:05:39PM 0 points [-]

I'm saying it's easier to control children when you don't also need to be cooking at the same time.

And that last paragraph was expanding upon the point I was making above, not in direct response to anything you said.

Comment author: brazil84 09 February 2014 11:38:48PM 0 points [-]

I'm saying it's easier to control children when you don't also need to be cooking at the same time.

Ok, so you are saying that it's easier to control children if you take them to a restaurant than if you prepare dinner and eat at home? Right?

And that last paragraph was expanding upon the point I was making above, not in direct response to anything you said.

Well you seemed to be making the following argument:

  1. If you have children, it's not practical to work around the expense of a meal out by preparing food at home because it's hard to prepare food while there are children around.

  2. The lack of instagram pictures of dinner from people with children shows that people who have children face a time shortage while preparing food at home.

I take it you are now abandoning the second point?

Comment author: Alsadius 10 February 2014 01:57:07AM *  0 points [-]

I'm not a parent, but it seems plausible. It meshes with what I remember of being a kid, certainly, and what parent friends say.

Not entirely true. Most of my meals as a kid were home-cooked. But they're not the sort of thing that would generally be considered "nice" - they were mostly repetitive, easy to make, and uninteresting. Most families I'm familiar with, including my own when I was younger, are more likely to go out to a middle-class sit-down restaurant when they want something "fancy" instead of make something ambitious at home(aside from special occasions - Christmas and Thanksgiving are both big fancy-home-cooking events in most families, Sundays in some, but days like that are comparatively rare).

I'm not referring just to cooking at home, but to a particular type of cooking - the fancy meal, not the "box of this, bag of that, and boiling water" stuff that so many families eat regularly. That does the job, but it's not the kind of awesome you were referring to when I made my original post.

Comment author: brazil84 10 February 2014 10:06:38AM 0 points [-]

I'm not a parent, but it seems plausible. It meshes with what I remember of being a kid, certainly, and what parent friends say.

Frankly it seems ridiculous to me. It's a lot easier to control your children at home than out at a restaurant since at home you have access to a wide variety of things the children can do including watching television.

Not entirely true. Most of my meals as a kid were home-cooked. But they're not the sort of thing that would generally be considered "nice" - they were mostly repetitive, easy to make, and uninteresting. Most families I'm familiar with, including my own when I was younger, are more likely to go out to a middle-class sit-down restaurant when they want something "fancy" instead of make something ambitious at home(aside from special occasions - Christmas and Thanksgiving are both big fancy-home-cooking events in most families, Sundays in some, but days like that are comparatively rare).

I'm not referring just to cooking at home, but to a particular type of cooking - the fancy meal, not the "box of this, bag of that, and boiling water" stuff that so many families eat regularly. That does the job, but it's not the kind of awesome you were referring to when I made my original post.

I have no idea what your point is here. Is it your position that if you have children, it's not practical to work around the expense of a meal out by preparing food at home because it's hard to prepare food while there are children around?

Is it your position that the lack of instagram pictures of dinner from people with children shows that people who have children face a time shortage while preparing food at home?

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