Reply #57: yes what is it about women

[marions ghost]

of an earlier era who had to have all these formal services for fine dining, while they popped the frozen pizzas in the oven and served it on plastique.

I have noticed that, and I think it has to do with being caught in that June Cleaver dream of the perfect housewife making jello molds early on...but then the reality was that there was never enough time to do all that entertaining and roles for women were changing radically. Convenience foods overtook them but they kept the fine dining items as a nostalgic symbol.

Kind of like the way I kept a hammock around for years as a symbol of the leisure that I never have.