Re: Eating with others is good for you

Generalizations are usually flawed. There are lots of people I know and have known who reliably gave me indigestion when I had social, business, or family obligations to eat with them. A meal by myself was much better for my physical and mental health.

Well stated.

Never break bread with psychic vampires, they get a double feeding and you lose loosh.

I won't disagree with you. My son would rather eat alone, I think. Having to interact with people is kind of a distraction with the business of eating and your mental and physical health is pretty important. I'm a guy that can only do one thing at a time so focusing on what I'm doing is important.

I recently went to a restaurant that served food in private booths. You picked from a menu on an app so no interaction with a server was necessary. Your order was delivered by a person behind a screen. Unfortunately, my wife was with me so I didn't get the true dining alone experience. We were the only couple there. OTOH, the other people eating alone had their faces firmly planted in their phones.

Several people see my posts as a personal affront to them. Why is that? I have no idea. As it goes, I don't want my posts to be a personal reply to other posters. Concepts and ideas are what I want to be posting about. Individual posters are not important. People's opinions are not important. People here would rather talk about other people. This is one big gossip group. That's so small-minded. That's the breaks.

I love that concept and the katsu is panko breaded perfection!

I do.

You won't bend to their will nor their demented "bully culture", preferring to explain the simple goodness of your own.

That terrifies and simultaneously affronts them, ergo the froth in return.

A bad break it is too, sadly.

How can food, which is love and conviviality defined, somehow have been degraded into a pin the tail on the asshat game in lieu of simple joy?

They sure had their knives into Julie Bove and her entire family (even their cat!) before she split.

Same for Barbara LLorente/sf.

These are some severe toxicity personalities here.

Can you imagine what they must have been like before age whittled them down to just their bare essentials?

Oh the parade of false nuance, eh?

;-)