I'm disappointed that my demographic wasn't represented: standing at the kitchen sink, eating room temperature baked beans out of the can, then sticking my head under the faucet for a drink.
Couples sitting at the table eating and looking at their cell phones are under-represented! Walk into any restaurant and there is plenty of that these days.<p><a href="https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/DHmMj5B/young-couple-with-cellphones-eating-dinner-at-home_njwmwrml__S0000.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/DHmMj5...</a>
Really interesting pictures, although I hope people realize that this was meant to capture interesting things and not really represent the average dinner time in the US. My two favorites are:<p><pre><code> "Tuesday: Alex, Sophia, Kathy, David, Claudia, Eva & Ana." [0]
"Wednesday: Nathaniel." [1]
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That is a huge table that family has, I mean that's really, really wide. And Nathaniel looks like he likes to party, which I respect.<p>[0] <a href="http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/150526_karademas_fam_018.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/140402_nat_018.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1...</a>
> “That being said, I was quite surprised to see a few families using paper plates rather than dishes. I’m keenly aware of my culture’s extreme wastefulness and have tried to make efforts to reduce my footprint, which is why I probably was more aware of it.”<p>It's damn tempting to do it at least a couple days a week if you have kids. Stretches how long your kitchen stays clean-ish without a bunch of work, and is way cheaper than paying a human to come help. Especially effective if you couple it with frozen food that can be cooked in its own container, or a meal that can feed 4-5 but be cooked in one pot with no cutting boards or anything (so, something out of a box). That combo can buy you a day of zero-added-mess in the kitchen, which is <i>so</i> nice when you've got kids and two working parents.<p>Actually, now that I'm writing it out like this, I'm thinking maybe we need to start doing this like Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I try to consider any possible way to solve household issues and not get stuck on particular solutions, think about our house as an environment to help us get stuff done, that kind of thing, but I think I've been neglecting the possibility of <i>generating slightly more trash</i> as a way of achieving ends. Yet I've considered the far more expensive option of hiring help. Just a couple regular, planned days a week of basically not using the kitchen could give us a <i>perceived</i> lower amount of work and an <i>actual</i> time-the-kitchen-is-clean much greater than the 2/7 it implies. And it's cheaper and (way) more convenient than dining out. Hm....
Interesting pictures, but they seem designed to convey "disappointment"<p>I'd be disappointed too with most of the food, not to mention the anti-social eating arrangements, in many of the pictures.<p>My personal take-away (ahem) - gay couples (or maybe just friends/family/room-mates) appear to have better dinners. Or better presentation, though in that case I'm not sure whose.
That's a lot of screens at dinner time... either TV or computer screens. That's kind of sad. There are lots of reasons (and science) for why you shouldn't have screens while eating.
Australia here, I guess our dinner times are reasonably similar to the US.<p>Personally, I'm a fan of the old stable table in front of the TV. Alternatively, being inappropriately drunk at a nice restaurant seems to happen more often than I'd like.
My family is in the minority; 4 of us eat at a table. Though my son wolfs it down to get back to Roblox. Unless mom is gone, then we revert to animals.
Read the article while sitting at my computer with my dinner, what a coincidence.<p>Yes, I can eat in the living room on the proper dining table, but I don't like it. When I was living with my parents, we had a decent table in the kitchen, where we had all our meals. Sadly my kitchen in this apartment is not big enough for any kind of table, which is really sad.