friend splitting the check – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg friend splitting the check – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Table for Seventeen: Group Dining Musings http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/group-dining-musings/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/group-dining-musings/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=310 All of us have been there. You’re at a birthday dinner for a friend of a friend of a friend. Wine is flowing, shots are being passed around the so-long-that-you-can’t see-the-person-on-the-other-end table and your friends are goading you to order that extra side of truffle fries because “it’s a special occasion.” And then, someone pulls out the bill and announces that since everyone is chipping in for the birthday girl, each person owes, oh, a quarter of a million dollars. And it IS a special occasion. It’s a goodbye party for your bank account. When I first moved to New York City it was alarming to me that three chunks of cantaloupe from a deli salad bar could run close to $10 and boxes of cereal were upwards of six. My utilities were higher than they’d ever been at my college apartment in central Pennsylvania and suddenly, a whole paycheck of my entry-level salary didn’t even cover my rent. Though I realize the importance of a savings account, the one thing I’ve never hesitated to indulge in is dining out. That’s not to say I frequent Jean-George and Per-Se on a regular basis ever. It means that if I’m going […]

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