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[quote=Anonymous]I am decent enough a home cook that I can prepare just about anything I might have cravings for in a very short amount of time for a fraction of the cost a restaurant can prepare it for. And that's without the wholesale discount the restaurants get. Knowing how to prepare something and what it costs, I am honestly dumbfounded why I ever wasted money eating out.

My thoughts as to why working/middle income people such as myself, still eat out regularly even with excessive price hikes. It must be that they perceive the cost for prepared foods as worth more than they really are. I also think based on conversations I have had, is many people lack the confidence in the kitchen believing things they like are too difficult so they don't even attempt to prepare them. Also I would not discount the social aspect to eating out.

But I would consider the largest factor to all of this is this is a cultural trend. For decades now since probably the 80s, when I was a kid, people have eaten out so regularly that they don't realize their was time when eating out was only an occasional treat most working class families.

Prior to very recent times people were more self sufficient and probably by necessity had a more money sense than most of us do today. I am confident that many in developing nations with less disposable income probably still retain that sense of the value of money. When I was growing up, we had home economics classes. I am not 100% confident, but I am probably the last generation to have had such classes. They were mostly a joke then, but at least we learned some cooking and finances.

Thanks to wealth, technology, and a lack of passing down skills, we are now mostly a culture of consumers. Younger generations have grown up in a world where their parents could afford to eat out all the time, where their basic needs were taken care of and basic life skills of previous generations are now taken for granted, and even frowned upon by some. Now days most people are okay with the state of things. The younger generations have only known this way of life, and the older generations who still remember the times before have accumulated enough wealth not to concern themselves with the old way of life. By the way I am not saying the old way is superior.

As inflation continues, and our economy continues down this path I suspect more and more people by necessity will start learning these skills again, hopefully. Unfortunately there are some who wish to keep us forever dependent, unable to self manage, and therefor forever consumers, never knowing the value of things.[/quote]

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