XP: Zagat's Dining Trends 2015

originally posted by kirk wallace:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"victuals"
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Maybe not. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_Vittles

Or Granny's : http://www.amazon.com/Grannys-Beverly-Hillbillies-Cookbook-Clark/dp/1558532714
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Sorry, I'm with Jeff. Misuses become words when they are misused long enough. And the spelling, vittles, goes back probably to the 19th century. But it's still a misspelling. If you look up the word in the OED, it will refer you to victual.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by MarkS:
If we go to a restaurant, it involves driving, sitting while ordering, waiting for check, and then driving home again. That would add about an hour, so dinner becomes at least 2 hours.
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Believe me, I'm with you on the cooking front. I eat out maybe 4-5 times per month.

But Zagats' core audience is in big cities, where dinner does not have to be 2 hours.

Plus, let's not forget that utility functions vary.
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And it could be take out. Or doesn't that count for this survey?
 
Two data points on the 4.5 number:

I mostly work in Dupont Circle and eat lunch out most days when I work there. Lunch-oriented restaurants (some close at 5pm) seem to do a big business and pull up the average. I eat dinner out far less frequently.

Years ago I heard a number associated with the key consumers of fast food chains and I believe the number of meals/week was somewhere in the teens.
 
As Southerners, we may be more prone to using colloquialisms (and perhaps even be proud of it!).

Having said that, "vittles" is used so commonly, it didn't even come to mind as being a possible colloquialism.

. . . . Pete
 
So those of you claiming to eat out fewer than 4.5 times per week pack a lunch at home to eat in the office?
 
originally posted by maureen:
So those of you claiming to eat out fewer than 4.5 times per week pack a lunch at home to eat in the office?
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Of course.

I pretty much consider restaurant food to be either entertainment or poison, and neither option is really likely to keep me nourished and healthy in the longrun if I ate it on a regular basis.
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

As Southerners, we may be more prone to using colloquialisms (and perhaps even be proud of it!).

Having said that, "vittles" is used so commonly, it didn't even come to mind as being a possible colloquialism.

. . . . Pete
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Victuals is pronounced vittles. The colloquialism, therefore, is only the spelling. The other word for colloquial spelling is, well, like I said.
 
originally posted by maureen:
So those of you claiming to eat out fewer than 4.5 times per week pack a lunch at home to eat in the office?
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I don't claim. I do. I don't have time to eat out, lunch or dinner. Except when I don't have a kitchen around, say, while on vacation.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg: Victuals is pronounced vittles.
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Jonathan, I have to assume that this was intended to be somehow facetious; otherwise, it seems quite out of character.

. . . . Pete
 
Jonathan, Okay, I was mistaken as to the "proper" pronunciation of victuals. Now I see your point.

Thanks for working to keep things here on the straight and narrow (so to speak)!

. . . . Pete
 
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