So how often do you eat out?

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Like, on a week-by-week average? I guess I'm just talking about dinner but you could include breakfast and lunch if you like.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

only when showered.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Fancy dinner: maybe once in three months. Pizza, falafel, Chinese, and all that: maybe once in two or three weeks. I'm poor.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

in all seriousness, maybe once a week..typically weekends.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

serious q: how many chinese/middle eastern/italian people are there in finland?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Eat out or take out?

I almost never eat out. Maybe once a month or something (except for the rare month that I get asked out a lot. to dinner, that is, not on dates.)

But I do the takeout thing at least once a week. Pretty ritually on Fridays.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

what kate said. i used to go out a lot more, but there's much better takeaways in london than i had in oxford, and i am poorer, so it works out.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Eat out on average twice but sometimes up to four or five times a week.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

The difference between takeaway and eating out for me isn't money - it's company. I do occasionally eat out by myself, but it's mainly neccessity, like because I'm going somewhere, rather than because I want to, you know... *eat out*.

(I'm getting the silly little girl giggles over the term "eat out" here. I'm sorry.)

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Lunch out maybe once a week. Dinner maybe once every 2 weeks, usually weekends.

I thought this thread was about something else, too. Just remembered: when I was at school I did German for a year, when I was about 13. Etched on my desk for that class was the legend 'EAT OUT M4RIA WH1TTAKER'S PUSSY', which is now also etched into my brain, it seems.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Heh, me too, Kate. :-)

We eat out at least once a week, I think. It depends really, sometimes I'm a cheapskate and prefer to skip a week. Then other weeks we'll eat out twice. Usually we don't go to really fancy restaurants, maybe an Italian or our regular pub/restaurant. We do takeout as well.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

About once a week if I can help it, and like to go somewhere nice about once a month.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Used to eat out all the time - 3/4 times a week. Now once every 2 weeks on average. Even the best restaurants add butter & salt & all kinds of shit to their food to make it taste better. (and it DOES!) At home, we know what we're eating.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

I probably only go to a restaurant twice a month on average. Takeaway is once a week (really big on Chinese lamb in plum sauce right now, but as always it tastes much better after a night in the fridge).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

usually once a week, but it's usually never at somewhere very nice

i dont think i've ever been out at a truly nice restaurant

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

" all kinds of shit"

Oh LORD! The cook's feces is ZEE BEST I TELL YA! ;-)

I used to have Chinese chicken&egg (as takeout) about four times a week a few years back. Being single is not good for your eating habits.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

every
single
day

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

serious q: how many chinese/middle eastern/italian people are there in finland?

I honestly don't know... There are quite a lot Turkish people and Kurds in here, most pizza and kebab places are run by them. Almost all the Chinese restaurants are ran by people from China and Hong Kong, and there's a Chinese restaurant in almost every city - Helsinki must have around 30 or 40 of those. The Italian population is smaller, or at least they aren't in the restaurant business (probably because it's easier for them to find employment outside their ethnic niche); few Italian restaurants in here are actually run by Italians.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Maybe a couple of times a month now, whereas I used to like to eat out at least once a week. There's too many restaurants that serve unhealthy food, most of the time I'd rather just cook instead.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I ate out last night! Went to the pub for a friends' birthday and we all had yummy lovely food. I had the amazing Halloumi Tower Of Mushroom, same as Johnney B.

That had nothing to do with anything except the childish desire to use the phrases "eat out" and "Johnney B" in the same sentence. :-)

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Ah but you didn't. That's two sep sentences...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I ate out with Johnney B last night.

::giggles behind hands::

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

rofl @ title

not very often at all - get loads of take aways though.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

there was this one time during a Chapel Bar Club FT, I sneaked out and got takeaway beef in blackbean sauce, and ate it sitting in a street corner, does that count as eating out?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

i can't believe the term 'eat out' is that funny here. sadly i can't find an image of the album 'eat out more often' by some dancehall artist i saw on TV once.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

continental, alfresco, sophisticated eating out, ken c.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

You ate out on a street corner? You HUSSY!!!

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

i had to pay for it too kate!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

why not just GIS 'eat out', stevem?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

because the album was called 'eat out more often' iirc

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

try eating out more

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

i'd prefer not to spend the cash right now.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

well sometimes it's nicer to just do it every now and then anyway

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

it's like a breath of fresh air

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I think I should stop reading this thread, because I cannot stop ROFFLing all over my office and my colleagues are starting to look at me strangely.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

14 times a week: a six-inch turkey sub with baked potato chips for lunch and a 12-inch vegetable sub for dinner. But not really, because I'm not Jared Fogle.

I usually have to eat out twice a week during the summer. I usually end up getting subs both of those times, but I'm not Jared Fogle.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Only when I've got money to. So in summer, it's less often than it would be in winter.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Rarely, just birthdays and work nights out really. I would like to do it more in a way because I am lazy, but I'm also poor and begrudge paying loads for what I Matt can make at home. Takeaway maybe twice a month though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I did eat chips on a boat on Sunday, but I don't really count that as it was just ballast. Much less exciting than Kate's escaping cheese, too.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Danger! Cheese flood!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

not as often as i'd like.
take outs, most nights.
not much time for cooking.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Lunch, all the time. At least three times per week. I don't often take a lunch to work, so either I go home to make a sandwich or I pick up a sub or sushi somewhere.

Dinner, once or twice a week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

So having a sandwich is eating out too? God, I think I can't even count how many times then....

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

This thread is notable by GAGU G's absence :-(

I eat out around once a month and get takeaway food maybe once a week.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

That cheese was mental. But mmmmm, tasty.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Bah, I'm getting hungry. I want to go all the way back to Embankment just to have some escaping cheese.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

i bet the burger was crazy

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Lunch: Almost always, unless I have some appetizing leftovers.

Dinner: Go Out: 5-6 times per month. Take out/Delivery: about 8 times per month.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I don't sit there in the sub place eating alone. The subs must be taken home for consumption.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I just made prawn poori. My dinner will be this with a paratha (I have recently discovered the frozen paratha in My Bengali Grocer's Freezer) and some yoghurt hence do not need to go out.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

i bet the burger was crazy

It was a self-saucing furburger, with pink lettuce...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

all too often! my wallet and my gut do not thank me.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

but steve that's why you eat the curry at lunch, rather than the night before - the gas won't come til the next morning innit.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

so you like to give them a rude awakening?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i think the last two posts were meant for another thread.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

oh shit you're right

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Never.

I hadn't missed it till I saw this thread.

Steve, upthread it sounds like you sometimes sleep in the fridge.

Ha ha ha, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Interesting

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I'll be eating out at a seafood restaurant tommorow night - yes, really - mouth is watering already at the prospect.

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I haven't cooked my own food in at least a month. So it's been all take-out and eating out for me lately. I'd like to have more control over what I eat, how it's prepared, etc., but I'm just too lazy and/or don't have the time.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

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