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."

The gotcha is "in one form or another", indicating that they are
twisting the definition of a home prepared meal in order to achieve the
desired result. In this case it would seem that they are trying to
appease the advertisers of processed, factory prepared foods and
disguise the fact that a large portion of what they are counting as a
"home prepared meal" is in realty a "home heated meal" consisting of one
or more processes factory prepared food products, heated and plated by
someone in the house.