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. |
Have you worked in one? |
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/frequence-manger-aller-au-restaurant-france/ Only 1/3rd of French adults report eating out 1x more more per month. |
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! |
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. |
The McFlurry machines are always broken, so she can’t do this. |
Potlucks at people's houses. We have also done game nights and BBQs. |
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? |
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 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 |
Funny that you dodged the question. Quelle surprise! |
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. |
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. |