On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:15:18 GMT, "Julie Bove" >
wrote:

>
>"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>>
>> "Ophelia" > wrote
>>
>>> The point was that the people who talked about that were in face, taking
>>> food from their own plate to take home. They never have regarded
>>> scrapings from other plates as ok.
>>
>> Yes, somehow taking home my own untouched piece of steak
>> has turned into scraping off plates and serving it to guests.
>>
>> I don't really understand how other people eat, apparently they
>> stick their used fork into all the food on their dish. Regardless,
>> if people have some sort of aversion to taking food home, they
>> don't have to. It's no big deal.
>
>One reason I dislike taking food home is that I usually don't go straight
>home after eating. These days when we do take food home, we usually plan to
>do it. For instance, my daughter likes the chicken at one restaurant. You
>can get an order with one piece or two. One is all she can eat for dinner.
>But she likes to take the other piece to school the next day in her lunch,
>along with some rice. So when we dine at this place, we plan to either go
>straight home, or stop by the house before going elsewhere so we can put it
>in the fridge. Luckily the restaurant is close to home.
>

i don't see where you have to go straight home, unless you're going
camping or something. and hour or two won't make a difference with
most things.

your pal,
blake