George Shirley wrote:
> On 7/18/2010 7:20 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> It's the last sentence in the paragraph that caught my attention. Do
>> you believe the statement?
>>
>> <http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...-schools-20100
>> 717,0,7359675.story>
>>
>> "This country cooks. Something like 70 percent of all meals are going to
>> be prepared in one form or another by someone in the house," says Harry
>> Balzer, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group, where he has followed
>> Americans' eating and drinking patterns for 25 years. "The average
>> American gets about 200 meals (a year) from a restaurant and that's
>> almost unchanged for 10 years."
>>
>>
>>
> Not in this house, probably less than 100 meals a year outside the house
> for us. I'm just to lazy to want to get dressed in long pants and a
> sports shirt just to go eat some food I could cook myself. And I would
> have to wear real shoes too instead of my Crocs.


Perhaps it's just another example of Colorado Casual, but there are few
nice restaurants I can think of in the entire state where you couldn't
wear shorts and Crocs. I am often surprised at the sporty dress when we
go out for a special dinner. (When we moved here 26 years ago I wrote
to Eastern friends that dress code for cocktail parties seemed to be
shorts, hiking boots, and a backpack.)

gloria p