"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 7/18/2014 1:23 PM, wrote:
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>> To me, eating at a restaurant is to enjoy the company of a friend, if
>> I'm not doing that, I eat at home, can't remember when I last bought
>> any takeout.
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> Sometimes you have to. If you are traveling on business, for instance,
> you can't go home for dinner. Alternative is take=out in your hotel room.
I would much rather eat in the restaurant than get takeout Twice I have
gotten takeout for myself at the taqueria and twice for my husband so he
would have something to eat when we were not here. What we wound up was a
sloppy mess. A good tasting sloppy mess but not nearly as good as what we
would have gotten had we dined in there. However, both times, dining in was
not an option. Once they were too packed. No tables. The other time I was
picking Angela up from dinner and a movie so I went through the drive
through.
Most of the times I have eaten in a hotel room, if I did not order room
service, I found a grocery store and brought food back with me to eat. I
learned from some fellow travelers that while some things are better eaten
heated, they don't always have to be. They made their own tostadas using
the purchased crisp tortillas, canned beans, cut up raw veggies, cheese and
salsa. I am fine with eating stuff like that if there is a need.
My husband sent out for pizza once and I hated it. He always gets the extra
large and can never finish it. There was no fridge and even if there had
been, that size would not have fit in it. So we had to smell the pizza
stink in the room.
Another time, same trip, he went through the drive through at Taco Time.
That is a local chain that serves freshly made Mexicanish food. It is not,
IMO authentic Mexican food but most of what they have is healthy fare. For
some reason he thought he was at Taco Bell where you have to order several
items to get filled up. He just kept ordering and ordering. Then the guy
behind the counter laughed when I said, "Stop! This isn't Taco Bell!" I
remember the total coming to around $50 and he was flabbergasted when bag
after bag came into our vehicle.
Of course there was no way to have eaten all of that food overnight. Again
no fridge but most of that kind of food doesn't keep well and would likely
need to be reheated. Plus a lot of it had sour cream and guacamole on it.
So not only was it a huge waste of money but once again, I had to put up
with the stink of food while I was trying to sleep.
When I buy food to eat in our room, I make sure to choose wisely. Yes,
sometimes there is a little extra but I try to plan it out well so that we
have a fridge or at least some plastic bags where we can seal up the extra
and dispose of it so that we're not smelling it all night.