s/o - for people who don't eat in restaurants, how and where do you socialize?

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you only want to spend 1 hour with people is that correct?


Watching football or the caps on TV is not expensive. Sometimes we get free tickets through work.

Pizza, salad and wine is not expensive. But if making a salad is going to ruin the experience for you because it is so much work then having people over is not a good way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants are really gross. If you really knew what went on, you would never eat in one.

I'd much rather invite people over to my house.

Have you worked in one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going to restaurants is literally paying corporations to poison you with overpriced food. We avoid them not just for finances, but because we value our health and what we put into our bodies.

And as others have noted, we socialize at each others' homes, at parks, at community gatherings, and elsewhere. The idea that you can't socialize without spending money in very specific environments is one more most Americans (and nearly all on DCUM) have been brainwashed into believing.

Actually Americans, compared to most other places, go to restaurants crazily infrequently. Spend some time in France or Italy and you will absolutely laugh that you ever thought Americans were the ones spending lots of time in restaurants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Going to restaurants is literally paying corporations to poison you with overpriced food. We avoid them not just for finances, but because we value our health and what we put into our bodies.

And as others have noted, we socialize at each others' homes, at parks, at community gatherings, and elsewhere. The idea that you can't socialize without spending money in very specific environments is one more most Americans (and nearly all on DCUM) have been brainwashed into believing.

Actually Americans, compared to most other places, go to restaurants crazily infrequently. Spend some time in France or Italy and you will absolutely laugh that you ever thought Americans were the ones spending lots of time in restaurants

Nope. I actually speak French, and this isn't correct. Here's a poll that answers this very question; it took 10 seconds to Google:

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/478827/f...u-restaurant-france/

Only 1/3rd of French adults report eating out 1x more more per month.

[Anonymous]

The national US average in comparison, per this poll, was 4.5x a week, or roughly 20 times per month.

https://www.zagat.com/b/the-state-of-american-dining-in-2016

I love it when people just flat out lie on this site. So stupid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The national US average in comparison, per this poll, was 4.5x a week, or roughly 20 times per month.

https://www.zagat.com/b/the-state-of-american-dining-in-2016

I love it when people just flat out lie on this site. So stupid!

It would be interesting to see how many times that's fast food, not restaurants. I don't think OP was referring to getting her friends together to share a McFlurry at McDonalds. So stupid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Going to restaurants is literally paying corporations to poison you with overpriced food. We avoid them not just for finances, but because we value our health and what we put into our bodies.

And as others have noted, we socialize at each others' homes, at parks, at community gatherings, and elsewhere. The idea that you can't socialize without spending money in very specific environments is one more most Americans (and nearly all on DCUM) have been brainwashed into believing.

Actually Americans, compared to most other places, go to restaurants crazily infrequently. Spend some time in France or Italy and you will absolutely laugh that you ever thought Americans were the ones spending lots of time in restaurants

Nope. I actually speak French, and this isn't correct. Here's a poll that answers this very question; it took 10 seconds to Google:

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/478827/f...u-restaurant-france/

Only 1/3rd of French adults report eating out 1x more more per month.

What does your speaking French have to do with it? Have you ever lived in France? Italy?

That's actually where "cafe society" comes from. You don't know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The national US average in comparison, per this poll, was 4.5x a week, or roughly 20 times per month.

https://www.zagat.com/b/the-state-of-american-dining-in-2016

I love it when people just flat out lie on this site. So stupid!

It would be interesting to see how many times that's fast food, not restaurants. I don't think OP was referring to getting her friends together to share a McFlurry at McDonalds. So stupid!

The McFlurry machines are always broken, so she can’t do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope it's ok to put this in this forum - it might be better in off topic.

On all these "how do I cut expenses" threads, I see it recommended that you stop eating in restaurants. That does sound like sensible money-saving advice - but if you do it, how and when do you socialize with other adults? I would say that our restaurant meals are as much about finding a time and place to see friends as they are about the food (we don't eat at super expensive places, but they can be maybe $20 or so per person, perhaps a little more if we have a drink or two).

Where do you see your friends - and how much does that tend to cost, then? Do you just go to people's houses?

Potlucks at people's houses. We have also done game nights and BBQs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Going to restaurants is literally paying corporations to poison you with overpriced food. We avoid them not just for finances, but because we value our health and what we put into our bodies.

And as others have noted, we socialize at each others' homes, at parks, at community gatherings, and elsewhere. The idea that you can't socialize without spending money in very specific environments is one more most Americans (and nearly all on DCUM) have been brainwashed into believing.

Actually Americans, compared to most other places, go to restaurants crazily infrequently. Spend some time in France or Italy and you will absolutely laugh that you ever thought Americans were the ones spending lots of time in restaurants

Nope. I actually speak French, and this isn't correct. Here's a poll that answers this very question; it took 10 seconds to Google:

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/478827/f...u-restaurant-france/

Only 1/3rd of French adults report eating out 1x more more per month.

What does your speaking French have to do with it? Have you ever lived in France? Italy?

That's actually where "cafe society" comes from. You don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, I grew up in France and my wife is Italian. So you look like even more of an idiot.

The two links clearly indicate that most French people a.) don't frequent restaurants, and b.) go far less often than Americans.

Why not just admit you were wrong instead of digging your heels in further?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The national US average in comparison, per this poll, was 4.5x a week, or roughly 20 times per month.

https://www.zagat.com/b/the-state-of-american-dining-in-2016

I love it when people just flat out lie on this site. So stupid!

It would be interesting to see how many times that's fast food, not restaurants. I don't think OP was referring to getting her friends together to share a McFlurry at McDonalds. So stupid!

You must be the PP who said the French ate out more than Americans. As a poster who can, you know, read links, I can see that you were wrong about that. Best to quit now instead of looking like more of an ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Going to restaurants is literally paying corporations to poison you with overpriced food. We avoid them not just for finances, but because we value our health and what we put into our bodies.

And as others have noted, we socialize at each others' homes, at parks, at community gatherings, and elsewhere. The idea that you can't socialize without spending money in very specific environments is one more most Americans (and nearly all on DCUM) have been brainwashed into believing.

Actually Americans, compared to most other places, go to restaurants crazily infrequently. Spend some time in France or Italy and you will absolutely laugh that you ever thought Americans were the ones spending lots of time in restaurants

Nope. I actually speak French, and this isn't correct. Here's a poll that answers this very question; it took 10 seconds to Google:

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/478827/f...u-restaurant-france/

Only 1/3rd of French adults report eating out 1x more more per month.

What does your speaking French have to do with it? Have you ever lived in France? Italy?

That's actually where "cafe society" comes from. You don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, I grew up in France and my wife is Italian. So you look like even more of an idiot.

The two links clearly indicate that most French people a.) don't frequent restaurants, and b.) go far less often than Americans.

Why not just admit you were wrong instead of digging your heels in further?

Funny that you didn't include that in your previous post and instead bragged about speaking French. That seems an odd angle to take, to say the least

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The national US average in comparison, per this poll, was 4.5x a week, or roughly 20 times per month.

https://www.zagat.com/b/the-state-of-american-dining-in-2016

I love it when people just flat out lie on this site. So stupid!

It would be interesting to see how many times that's fast food, not restaurants. I don't think OP was referring to getting her friends together to share a McFlurry at McDonalds. So stupid!

You must be the PP who said the French ate out more than Americans. As a poster who can, you know, read links, I can see that you were wrong about that. Best to quit now instead of looking like more of an ass.

Funny that you dodged the question. Quelle surprise!

[Anonymous]

We invite people to our house for meals and we get invited out for meals. Occasionally we do a potluck meal, but usually one family hosts 2-3 families for a meal.

[Anonymous]

What's with the weirdos who keep arguing even when the entire spread of posts is visible proving they were wrong?

I've been seeing this a lot lately in the finance forum. Someone will post some BS about how 400k is middle class in DC and then someone else will smack them down with links to how median HHI is like 73k and the 1% mark is like 450k and then the first clown will keep arguing about how when you remove all the minorities and poor people middle class is 400k...

Now there's this thread and someone starts saying the French eat out more than Americans, someone drops links showing that to be BS, and then the first dummy comes back arguing *while quoting* posts showing most French don't even eat out once a month while the average American eats out 5x a week.

Are there really this many freaks walking around DC on a daily basis who can't allow themselves to ever admit they're wrong? No wonder this place is going downhill.