ms_peacock wrote:

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>>>Let's think about this. These folks would pay out all that money to
>>>go to a place where they pay to have someone else chop up the food,
>>>choose the ingredients, choose the menu and recipes? Then they will
>>>package the food themselves, take them home and put them in the oven?
>>>Now if that isn't stupid, I don't know what is? If the people you
>>>know would gladly pay for this service then IMO they are dumber than
>>>a rock! I would think someone with any iota of intelligence would
>>>either take a cooking course at a community college, buy a recipe
>>>book, check online, buy a cooking video, or get a friend or relative
>>>to teach them how to cook. Now my FM always used to say you are
>>>judged by your acquaintences. This really isn't making you look too
>>>good at the moment either
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>>It astounds me that people like you are so narrow-minded. Yes, people
>>can cook if they want to. Some DON'T want to, they don't want to plan
>>meals, they don't want to prepare raw ingredients, etc. Why is it so
>>hard to understand that others may not enjoy the things you do?
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>It's an absolute refusal to see something from anyone else's point of view.
>It's a refusal to see that people of normal intelligence might find these
>kinds of services useful.
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I think you might be begging the question, meaning asserting that which
you seek to establish.

What do you mean "useful"? I have no problem with people who are not
interested in cooking, what I can't understand is why they would prefer
this service over buying something already totally prepared by a
commercial caterer. With all due respect to Brian, I don't believe
anybody is saying that people who don't like cooking are stupid, rather
they are questioning the common sense of opting for this particular
solution to the unavoidable need to eat.

You say that your friends think, when you asked them, that they might
use this sort of service. People think lots of things when asked
hypothetical questions. The proof of the pudding, dare I say it, is in
the eating. How many of your friends actually have experience of this
sort of service? Do you reckon they'd really use it on a regular basis?

Christine