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Old Sep 8, 2011 | 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by fastflyer
Another casualty -- dinner parties. Dinner parties used to happen in our neighborhood in the 1970s twice a week -- and everyone reciprocated
funny you mention this, a friend of mine was asking for a recipe he had enjoyed at our house, I was a bit shocked as he never has seemed 'into' cooking. Turns out they have a monthly dinner party where the neighbors all take turns hosting. I hadn't heard of dinner parties in a long time.
Originally Posted by fastflyer
But the old-school ethnic restaurants have disappeared, replaced for the mass market by the upscale casual chain restaurants.
define old-school. Old time delis have hit hard times replaced by Subway or Potbelly like crap but almost every other type of ethnic dining has exploded.
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