Lavolta Press wrote:
And in fact, most modern restaurants will give you a special bag or container to take leftover food home in if you ask. I have had elderly relatives who did this routinely. Not for economic reasons but because it was physically very difficult to cook for themselves at home, and the value was in not having to prepare a home meal. I've never seen anyone tuck restaurant food into their handbag or pocket.
Maybe it's a mom thing. I have done this most often with the cookies/brownies typically served to my kids as part of their children's meals. Often they didn't want to eat the treat right away, and it's much faster (and "greener") to wrap something that small in a paper napkin than to trouble the server for a (usually bulky) take-out container (and then wait for them to bring it). My own mom does the same thing with the almond cookies served at the end of the meal at her favorite Chinese restaurant -- she's watching her sugars, so often doesn't want to eat them after her meal, but she tucks them in her bag and gives them to my kids, or has them as a snack later.
For anything messy or sizable, I do request a container. My point was only that putting finger foods like "sweet cakes" into one's "pocket" was not an action without modern parallel, and doesn't have to mean a mess.
Don't think I've ever done it with cold chicken, though!
Because ladies were supposed to be dainty eaters in public, the writer may also have been lambasting a woman for eating more than he thought women should.
Yeah, there definitely seemed to be an element of that in the description, too. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
