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Friday, October 3, 2008
Is TV dining a thing of the past?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I was cleaning out my laundry room, looking for a more out of the way spot to hide my kid’s growing assortment of sports gear, musical instruments and book bags. Tucked away I found a set of tray tables that we got as a wedding present. They were a nifty convenience when we were doing a family dinner and movie night, an event we haven’t done in ages, now that bed times have moved later leaving us time to dine first.
A recent episode of the 60s-oriented series, Mad Men, a show which captures that time period in exquisite detail, showed a young couple sitting at their tray tables eating dinner while the TV entertained them. I remembered a time during the early days of TV, when the norm was to take dinner plates into the living room and eat while watching the evening news. Then the TV migrated into the kitchen. You followed along to Julia Child when making dinner and ate breakfast with the hosts of your favorite morning show.
I began to wonder if the TV is still a dining companion or are those days obsolete? Do you or your friends eat while watching TV?
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