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Benedict Arnold

Do you take your leftovers home when you eat at a restaurant? Out of 11 people I had dinner with tonight I was the only one who did.

Posted - May 10, 2019
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  • 19937
    If there is more than just a couple of bites left, I take it home.  One of the places I have dinner has the best chicken quesadillas, but it's so big that I wind up taking half of it home.  I paid for it, no reason not to take it with me.
      May 10, 2019 9:28 PM MDT
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  • I agree. 
      May 11, 2019 5:16 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    No.  I have many times but have never once eaten them.  So now I don't bother.  I did when the kids were growing up because they would eat them.  We don't eat out very often but what I don't eat, they can have.
      May 10, 2019 10:15 PM MDT
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  • I wouldn’t take home something I wouldn’t eat next day. I don’t ever cook though and I had more than half left, so I was taking it with me. 
      May 11, 2019 5:17 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    Having been poor most of my life, food never goes to waste.  It may go to waist but NOT to waste.
      May 10, 2019 10:24 PM MDT
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  • makes sense :)
      May 11, 2019 5:18 PM MDT
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  • Absolutely. I hate to see food go to waste. Being that I rarely cook, I probably would have taken everyone else's leftovers too. 

    Except the one who ordered the chicken breast. Who goes out to a restaurant and orders chicken breast? Killers of joy, that's who. 
      May 11, 2019 1:47 AM MDT
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  • I had chicken -_- it was stuffed with feta and spinach though,  so was some joy :)
      May 11, 2019 5:19 PM MDT
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  • 11007
    It depends on what it is and whether I am going straight home. I've heard that this is an American thing which is why other countries don't understand our portion size. Canada sometimes follows US customs and sometimes it doesn't, so I'm not sure if you are unusual for Canada or not.
      May 11, 2019 6:33 AM MDT
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  • I‘m probably unusual lol. I just find portions at restaurants are so huge. If I’m paying over 30 for a plate and not able to eat half of it, it’s mine, I’m taking it home. 
      May 11, 2019 5:20 PM MDT
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  • if i bring extras home its because i intend to eat it within a few hours. i usually just try to order something I know I'll finish. 
      May 11, 2019 6:51 AM MDT
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  • some restaurants portions are so huge though, no normal person could eat a whole plate. 
      May 11, 2019 5:21 PM MDT
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  • kids meals and appetizers are a life saver 
      May 11, 2019 6:06 PM MDT
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  • We had appetizers though, and the meal came with a salad to start. By the time I got my meal was already full. I had to pretend to eat like a grownup though,  cos I was with family. 
      May 11, 2019 6:09 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    If I chose it at a restaurant, it’s food I like, I paid for it, it’s my food.
    Too much food is wasted 
      May 11, 2019 7:43 AM MDT
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  • Agreed. 
      May 11, 2019 5:21 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Only if I like it and it will taste good re-heated.  
      May 11, 2019 8:50 AM MDT
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  • yeah, same. 
      May 11, 2019 5:22 PM MDT
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  • 1500
    Leftovers? As in, food left over? A concept lost on me.

    But I really do hate seeing food go to waste.
      May 11, 2019 9:20 AM MDT
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  • Oh you’re  one of those people who look at the plate like a challenge....:) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at May 12, 2019 9:51 AM MDT
      May 11, 2019 5:23 PM MDT
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  • 1500

    Bread bowl, Jaimie. First you eat the chili, then you eat the bowl. There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.

      May 12, 2019 10:01 AM MDT
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  • I’ll leave that to you, sound a like a carb coma  waiting to happen to me lol. 
      May 12, 2019 1:31 PM MDT
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  • 1500
    Hehe it's a Seinfeld quote; happened to catch "The Calzone" yesterday.

    My dream is actually an edible table.
      May 13, 2019 3:21 AM MDT
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  • Gawd I’ve  seen every episode of that show and I can’t recall it. Maybe start  with making an edible dinner tray... work up to a table ;)
      May 13, 2019 8:58 AM MDT
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