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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious what cuisines he eats, if any, besides Lebanese? [/quote]

[b]That's the thing. The men I know (my husband included) who grew up with mommy's traditional home cooked food that takes all day to make usually have high expectations in a proper meal is. My husband would rather starve than make himself a sandwich. They are used to having a woman spending hours in the kitchen and keeping the fridge full with a variety of dishes. My MIL still gives us dozens of frozen containers of food every time we see her. She also forces me to peel bags of onions and chop veggies for hours when she comes visit. But that's another story...[/quote][/b]

All of this. I don’t think the average American  truly gets how labor intensive and all-consuming some ethnic home-cooking is. Every single holiday and get-together revolves around intricate dishes. These families don’t run a Turkey Trot 5k after Thanksgiving, they don’t go to restaurants for Mother’s Day brunch. Yes, it can be a beautiful and delicious testament to love for family but it is not really a modern way to live.[/quote]

[b]DP.  Wow.  Stereotype much?  That's a lot of cultural bias.  [/quote][/b]

It is lived experience.[/quote]

Then frame it as an anecdote and not an across the board generalization that the way "these families" that make "ethnic home-cooking" "is not a modern way to live."

That's just insane BS. And really xenophobic.
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Sounds like you don’t have many ethnic immigrant friends with parents around. Or you never traveled to visit any. Oh well for you. [/quote]

On the contrary, I dated someone from the Middle East for 10 years and visited his family there often.  I am also from a culture that cooks a lot, but go ahead and make more assumptions about me.[/quote]

Cool. So did they cook and eat or just order McDonald’s and pizza or do like taco night/ pasta night/ burger night/ fish night? [/quote]

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