What's the longest you've gone between eating out?

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I mean RESTAURANTS.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe a week?

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Two weeks, maybe?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(Incidentally, this would have been during the same interval in which I didn't do what was discussed in the other thread.)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Sit-down at a restaurant? I think Ive only been 2 or 3 times all this year, thanks to being poorer than a churchmouse who just got an enourmous bill. And two of those times were paid for by my parents/my boyfriends parents.

Ive got home delivery maybe half a dozen times?

God how depressing.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a student now but I haven't changed my ways at all and I'm going to hit a brick wall of brokeness. I am going to have to test my limits here.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Learn to cook, people, whats with you all! Cooking is a wonderful way to relax after a busy workday, its a lovely way to share quality time with yr partner helping chop n peel and fry stuff, and you get to control the numminess factor of what you make. And its CHEAP. :D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too exhausted and hungry to cook when I get home from work. And I have a vile kitchen that I don't like spending any time in.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I can totally relate to that. Unfortunately, being skint forced me back to cooking, I had no choice. I learnt to work out dishes that required mininum effort (eg stick a load of veg in a pot and boil, voila soup, etc), or worse, I just didnt eat tea, which made me lose too much weight :/

Crappy kitchens also dont help, I guess I'm lucky I have a lovely kitchen.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Well that's great, but what if you have a mean landlady who lives just on the other side of the wall from you and doesn't let you use her wineglasses, and doesn't allow shoes in the house, or smoking, even in the kitchen, and you hate being anywhere near yr house :( I like to cook though

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer, eat your greens and stop watching the TV so much!

― Your Mother (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The only TV I watch is Carry On films, and they're not really TV, more like an alien world I wish I could live in.

I know how to cook Trayce, or at least well enough to make myself happy, but I've eaten out for lunch practically every day for the past six years.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i have been out to dinner once in the last 12 months. i live in a backwater with no enticing restaurants. i have a mortgage. i have kids.
i don't really care though. how many times out of ten is restaurant food worse than home-cooked?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

To be clear here I am not talking just about dinner, I'm talking about all meals and all type of place - Taco Bell, school cafeteria, whatever.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(I think for me it has to be a week TOPS.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

how many times out of ten is restaurant food worse than home-cooked?

Too many.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

does fish'n'chips or pizza takeaway sitting at the beach count? i do one or the other once a month! (and the fish'n'chips are never as good as home cooked)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That is still inhuman by my lights, gaz. I think I THINK I cook but don't, really. I'm a "non-cooker" the way other people are "non-smokers" e.g. I'll do it kind of randomly but not with any real day-in day-out gusto.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

A looong time. My parents cook almost literally every night, so growing up I could go for months.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasnt having a go at you btw Tracer! I was trying to make a dumb joke cos you said landlady... and bla bla oh never mind :(

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 November 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, so far this year maybe 1 and 1/2 days.

but as a kid when I lived at home probably a month.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 28 November 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i wrote a response to this but it depressed me too much.

please, on my behalf, EAT OUT whenever you get a chance! preferrably at a 'non-family restaurant'.

― donna (donna), Friday, 28 November 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

We eat out every few weeks. If take aways count, we probably get those once a week.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i was soooo tempted to eat out after tracer called my habits inhuman. but voni is sick and after doing all the kids stuff i now have to cook!
leftovers on toast methinks.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh Tracer, has K@thi@nne turned EEEEVIL? You have to remember you can get a set of cheapie wine glasses at Safeway for £5.

We are expecting you here about ooh sixish; dinner may feature.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of years, perhaps...?

I never ate out as a child. My parents just didn't believe in it. (This is really sad, as my mother was an apalling cook.) I think I can count the number of times we "ate out" during my teen years on the fingers of one hand. And by the time my mother discovered restaurants, we were too poor to go. :-(

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My mum is also (apart from five or six 'party pieces') a really appalling cook. Even at our most impoverished we managed to eat out about once every two weeks based on her rationale 'you need a treat'.

Custodial visits to my dad included mandatory pizza/burger-type restaurant dinners.

Also in every child's circle of acquaintances there's gotta be that 'weird family' who eat out every single night.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this explains my love for "all you can eat buffets" as they were the only kind of food we could afford when my mother discovered eating out.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

like ten hours! (also I can vouch for Tracer--he's a FANTASTIC cook)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I can also vouch for Tracer's culinary skillz and let's face it, in my house there is stiff chef competition.

My mom never went the Boston Market route; it was always six blocks down the road to the restaurant attached to Byerly's (vaguely chi-chi Minnesota supermarket chain). As a result my Proustian meal is chicken Kiev, potatoes Dauphinoise, rice fried with wild rice and bacon, and mmm mmm cream of wild rice soup or clam chowder.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

in Tracer's house there was stiff chef competition! his old roommate just opened a pizzeria in midtown Manhattan--can't wait to go back and try it. (also will have to go to Byerly's when I'm in Mpls. for Xmas just for the hell of it!)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha my mom used to get the Byerly's brand boil-in-the-bag wild rice soup! that shit was good, too, even though it was b-i-t-b.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

also I wish I were exaggerating about the amount of times I go out to eat! today I didn't, but that's because today was Thanksgiving and I went to a friend's parents' house and was cooked for (a feast!) so that sort of counts as "eating out" even if I didn't pay for it. (actually I did buy some expensive cheese and good wine and bring it along so in a sense I did, but you know what I mean)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus how many exclamation points did I just use? sorry, usually not that hyper.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Chinese Buffet! Woooo!

(Though I am still groaning from the Thai Cult Food last night.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

OK so that's why Tracer passed the chef school initiation here on Hivemind Hill (anyway we all know I worked as a diner/fountain cook at 14).

Wild rice soup makes me VERY happy; unfortunately it was way too hot to have some when I was back last. Explanation to foreigners: this is a cream soup with big chunks of ham and chicken in, also with wild and plain rice and almond slivers. It is extremely savoury and really clings to the ribs.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Matos: chris dot kieser at juno dot com - go drinkies when you're home!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Tracer's skills were already set before Matt (the roommate) came along, though. and I haven't had wild rice soup since . . . since . . . since I moved away from Minnesota! Hey! [those exclamation marks again, grumble grumble]

I'll be there from Dec. 19-28 and will almost certainly see Chris there--thanks for the contact info. Too bad I won't see you, though. But then there's that doppelganger at the coffeehouse, so . . .

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(just emailed her now, Suzy--thanks again)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had way more than my fill of family this year; September was dicey. Hanging out at Chris' saved me from one of those embarrassing scream-and-throw-shit sessions with my mom even if our night out being Monarques groupies ended in my usual 'Oh no! American alcohol measures! Oh no! ruin.

Next time I go home Ed will be joining me. Cue interminable conversations about the appropriateness of dreadlocks until we are forced to go hide out at my black sheep billionaire cousin's house (she is deemed this for listening to NPR and marrying a hippie radio guy) which will cause my mother to implode and at last turn into a box of Marlboro reds.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I just unearthed my Monarques demos last night! haven't played it in a while yet. I have a relative who married a radio guy, too, though he's quite the opposite of a hippie. at some point I need to go to London anyway, though; the Suzy/Matos meeting MUST HAPPEN!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah and I wound up blowing off meeting up with Rod, AAAGH, because I stupidly planned it for my last night and my fucking sister threw a wobbly because she assumed I was telepathically going to know she'd taken the night off work to go out when actually I'd planned drinking with people who do not understand Bush-voting Durango drivers.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I specifically mentioned Rod in my email to Chris. way I figure I'll be staying w/my pal Kate (she posts here too--hi Kate!) and there'll certainly be some group-hanging-out nights in there so if she wants to come she's invited with.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

MNism: 'can I come with?'

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what would be the Londonism version?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

May I come along? 'Come with' is almost as distinctively Minnesotan as 'phy ed'.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, "phy ed" is TOTALLY MN'an. so "she can come along" then.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget 'billfold'. Coastal people always want to know what the fuck a billfold is.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus! I suppose you're right, though I haven't thought of it in such divisive terms before.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I find it highly amusing that all the Minnesota-only words and expressions are in phonetic terms fairly juicy with 'Fargo'-esque honk noises.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have deliberatly not watched Fargo ever. I am deeply afraid that if I did I would end up cutting out my own tongue as a result.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

No, they make it really painless for self-aware Minnewegians by savaging the kind of people who say they listen to 'CCO at drive time, or are soccer moms. But I remember watching it at a private screening here and getting mighty strange looks when I laughed uncontrollably at the bit where she's watching a pastiche of 'Good Company'.

(Tangent: Uncle Lieutenant Vice and Special Forces had lots of professional dealings with -eugrghhhh- The Husband And Wife Team)

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you mean "tangent"? this whole thing's become a tangent!

the problem is that I'm not all that self-aware a Minnewegian! mainly because I don't have any 'wegian in me, or in the family, though that hardly precludes me from talking like a lot of them, or at least partly like them.

anyway, you seem to be saying it's more like MST3K in the nudge-nudge-you-MN'ans dept. than a savaging. OK, I'm a lot more interested now, thanks.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh bloody hell a kid in my sister's class was one of the MST3K writers. Alums from my HS (Frankens, Coens) seem to have comedy pishing on MN down to an art form.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

not to downplay your fellow alums' work, but it doesn't take much, really.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Suzy I remember the first time I ever communicated w/you and you were all like "I don't like MN and don't want to talk about it" and now I keep dragging you into discussions of it!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? I must have been up to *here* (raises hand to neck in 'chop' motion) from listening to my mom (who says 'ish!' when grossed out) yammer on about what a freak my cousin is for an hour, including free cast aspersions at no extra charge, thus making me want to curl up into small ball of quivering mush.

Sometimes I need it to be a small world. Oh oh and Dara M. was best friends with my pal Stu the A-List gay boy when both were at Carleton.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I only met Dara the once, at the Lifter Puller/Monarques show. Seems really nice.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I eat out like 5 times a year, if that. So, probably about 6 months. Unless you include eating a sandwich with a bottle of pop on a park bench, oh and maybe, just maybe a packet of crisps.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh bloody hell a kid in my sister's class was one of the MST3K writers.

Hm, which one? Anyway, this does also remind me of their 'speech regionalisms' skit, and let us not forget the world's longest Sven-and-Ole joke, as directed by Bergman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

in MN they park in "ramps" instead of parking "garages"

but you don't have to pay because Steve Buscemi shot the ticket-taker

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"come with" and billfold are both used widely here. must be that middle of the country thing.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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