On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:20:56 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>
> Same here. I am not rich, and even if I were, I don't think that I would
> automatically go for the most expensive item on a menu. If I am being
> taken out for a meal I appreciate the hospitality and the generosity,
> but I don't want to take advantage of it. My father in law loved to
> entertain in restaurants and at his clubs and did it often, but I know
> that it annoyed him when people ordered the most expensive items, even
> more so when he thought it was something that those people would not
> normally order if they were paying.

Well, I *can* afford it... but I don't prefer most of the food that's
on the menu at a higher price. I gravitate toward the pasta, polenta
or risotto. A lot of meat on the plate just doesn't appeal to me.

> I remember his once grumbling about
> his own son ordered a large lobster at the most expensive club. That, at
> the time,would have cost about three times as much as the other entrees.

Children, even adult children, will do that. For them, their parents
money always grows on trees... they don't actually work for it. :/

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.