/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Who started the meme of eating together as a social activity? It must have been restaurants trying to get more business, right? It's pretty fucking stupid

>can't have proper uninterrupted conversation without your food going cold
>if you try to avoid that problem, then your conversation has a bunch of artificial breaks in it
>the act of eating itself is not flattering, which a bunch of noises and chewing involved
>if you spill something on yourself while eating alone it's just something you wipe up, if with others you look like an idiot
>you end up spending 2 hours not really doing anything whereas it'd be more efficient to eat separately and then spent 1 and a half hours doing things that are actually fun as a duo/group