On 7/18/2010 1:16 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> 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.

I can't believe that anyone would believe a so-called journalist would
skew the results on an article, that would be unjournalistic or something.

Said with tongue firmly in cheek.