Most of the people responding to this comment and downvoting ate dinner at home growing up , right ? Or was the norm 1540 years ago also going out for lunch every weekday and out for dinner several nights a week ? For me , eating out more often than having homecooked food was not a norm growing up at all . I saw it as something that people of my generation began to do because they lived at home but wanted to pretend like they did not so they would spend as much time out of the house as possible and thus eat meals out of the home very often . It has always been mystifying to me that most if not all of us over the age of 18 right now , here in 2016 , should have had mostly home cooked meals if we were in middleclass or lower families , yet now the supposed norm is that most people haven ' t the slightest idea as to how to make a tastey meal . But please , downvote away . Edit formatting