Heres How Different Dinnertime Looks Across The USA
An interesting, in my opinion, of photos on “boredpanda” of how people have dinner.
(More photos at the link)
The only instructions (the photographer) shared with everyone was to go about their dinner plans as they normally would on any given weeknight, capturing the ordinary meals and the casualness of the whole thing.
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I'm maybe a bit too uptight but we only eat at the dining room table. At the old house, I had an eat in kitchen and we'd eat at the big table at the end of the kitchen. The dining room was reserved for holiday or guest dinners.
In this house, we don't have an eat in kitchen so it's the dining room table. The room is surrounded by a wrap-around porch and lots of windows, so I keep it quite tidy- no piles on the table. DH and I sit next to each other, facing the view outside rather than each other. It's not cold or uncomfy- we chat comfortably all thru most dinners. The kids - now in college- would sit facing us and still do when they are home from college.
I'm weird in that I don't like to have bottles of stuff on the table - things like ketchup, dressing, etc. I tend to put food on the center butcher block in the kitchen and everyone serves themselves and takes their plates and sits down. Less to clear away. At holiday or other fancier dinners, I'd put stuff like that in bowls or other containers. It just makes me twitch to see those on my table. I fully admit that's weird.
We don't have a tv on the main floor, so no eating in front of the tv. I prefer conversation at dinner.
DH and I tend to wait for each other to finish- hell it's just the two of us. The kids would just get up and move on when they were done. They did have to clear their plates, but that's because I wasn't going to raise boys that expect their spouse to wait on them hand and foot.
I'm totally particular about bottles or tubs on tables. Must be an inherited trait. I was horrified when my SIL threw down a loaf of white bread and a tub of margarine one thanksgiving.
I'll bet they cleared the dinner table in a hurry and began "cooking" in another sense, if ya know what I mean. I can see it in their eyes!
It depends on people's work schedules too. For example somebody who works retail or at a hospital or EMS might be working odd hours.
OTOH somebody might be living alone but sharing meals by inviting friends, relatives or neighbors.
This is an interesting photo collection though.
The only time I don't eat alone is when I'm having a sausage biscuit at mcDonald's.
