On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:14:15 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> brooklyn1 > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:20:18 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >It's the last sentence in the paragraph that caught my attention. Do
>> >you believe the statement?
>> >
>> ><http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...-schools-20100
>> >717,0,7359675.story>
>> >
>> >"This country cooks. Something like 70 percent of all meals are going to
>> >be prepared in one form or another by someone in the house," says Harry
>> >Balzer, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group, where he has followed
>> >Americans' eating and drinking patterns for 25 years. "The average
>> >American gets about 200 meals (a year) from a restaurant and that's
>> >almost unchanged for 10 years."
>>
>> That's because more and more meals consumed in the home are purchased
>> pre-prepared from the frozen foods section, packages off the shelf,
>> delis, and take outs... very few meals are actually prepared at home
>> anymore other than to open the package and heat. Pasta with jarred
>> sauce ain't cooking.
>
>Yes; the article continued with a similar comment.

I didn't read the article, didn't even click on it, didn't have to...
from the title and the comments I knew exactly what it would say.