sf wrote:
> Kalmia wrote:
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> >
>> > That's a telling reason for going out to eat with others, you live
>> > like a slob... why is your house not clean and neat all the time?!?!?
>>
>> If someone's like me, they want the house perfect for company and
>> therefore prefer eating out, as no one's house is always guest-ready.

I can't comprehend what you mean by guest ready... your abode is
either generally tidy always or you live like a slob. Guests don't
expect OR sterile... my house is guest ready at all times, I keep my
abode neat and clean and my grounds manicured for me, same I bathe
every day too... I don't need to do anything out of the ordinary to
receive guests. When I do eat out with friends it's never because I'm
ashamed of my abode, I already explained that it's mostly because of
reciprocity issues. And I can prepare dinner for twenty as easily as
for two... cookware comes in all sizes... no difference cooking a four
pound roast as a twenty pounder, no difference whatsoever, in fact
larger roasts are more forgiving. I can just as easly roast a turkey
as a chicken. But as I explained, I'm at that station in life where
I'm tired of being the only one in the group who prepares/pays for
dinner, so now it's we all eat out and pay our own way or I stay home
and eat fried bologna grilled cheese Rubens.
http://www.southernplate.com/2009/09...andwiches.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_sandwich
http://www.peterpaulrubens.org/


>I have nothing to be ashamed of or apologize for. I have
>a large, well furnished, (just for Sheldon) neat house that can
>accommodate 70 people easily, I've entertained extensively in the past
>and I'm over it. Our weather is not conducive to casual outdoor
>entertaining - ever, so a BBQ type meal outside is never an option.
>When I entertain, it's formal and I don't feel like going through all
>that work just to visit with old friends. If they come over for
>appetizers and drinks before dinner or coffee and dessert after, I
>have all the pleasantries of entertaining at home with none of the
>dinner planning, prep and clean up. <shrug> We can well afford to
>dine where we want and so can our friends. As a "for instance", our
>last meal out with friends was less than a month ago at Gary Danko.
>http://www.garydanko.com/ and yes, we used their valet parking.

Then you'd not have said in your first answer that you'd need to get
your house prepared to receive guest. So sf lives in a LARGE pig
pen... to accomodate her 300 pound unbathed cellulite ass! LOL