Posted on 06/23/2023 1:56:55 PM PDT by Libloather
The average American household is now spending $3,631 on takeout food every year - but there is one area where residents spend far above the national average.
People living in the District of Columbia typically spend $6,241 a year on takeout - or $120 a week per household - according to a new study by Betway.
Hawaii residents came in second, with the average home forking out $4,647 per year, followed by Maine in third with a typical spend of $4,499, Vermont with $4,443 and New Hampshire with $4,402.
Oklahoma is the state where people are spending the least, with the typical household only budgeting $2,756 per year for ordering in.
The study found that almost 54 million Americans are using food delivery apps, with pizza being the most popular takeout food across the country.
Across the US, delivery lovers are searching for 'pizza takeout' and 'pizza delivery' 309,100 times a month on average.
This equated for 76 percent of all monthly Google searches for different kinds of food analyzed in the study.
Chinese food is the second most popular cuisine - with 37,500 searches a month, and sushi comes in third with 22,900 searches.
Tacos were the country's fourth favorite option, with 7,200 searches.
While people living in the District of Columbia spent the most annually on delivery, New York is home to the highest concentration of takeout fans in the country.
The study considered the number of searches on delivery apps such as Uber Eats and DoorDash per 1,000 residents and found that 45 searches are made every month per 1,000 residents in the Big Apple.
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My annual household budget for take out is zero.
My annual household budget for going out to eat is zero.
I just had some Tex-Mex delivered to the house for dinner
My car delivers me to the grocery store parking lot... from there I walk into the store, grab a cart and start shopping. At least weekly. We cook from scratch. Not totally because of things like bread, jams and other items.
We pick up our own takeout. The fewer people handling our food, the better.
We don’t eat anything from a bag or a box. Everything we buy is from the periphery of the store save some dry goods like tea and spices. It’s expensive to eat healthy.
If I say it appears it appears. And I’ll spell walla however I damned well please. And no it doesn’t get cold, unless you order from too far away. And I have a trash can. Yes I pay a tip BFD. What we really know here is you’re just really whiny and negative. Bet you don’t get invited to a lot of parties.
I’d like to spend money on fast food, but no Chick-fil-A where I live.
Using old fashioned American ingenuity, I actually had my version of a Chick-fil-a last night.
You Tube has a ton of videos on copycats.
They say brine the chicken breast in pickle juice which I didn’t and put some powdered sugar in the flour which I did.
IMHO the secret is cutting your chicken the right proportion and not too thick.
After I cut the chicken I put it in a small bowl and run some 208 degree water from my hot water dispenser over both sides and let it sit a bit, then repeat.
Then I double dredge in the egg then flour mixture recipe.
My secret is I use a round bottomed wok to fry it in.
It doesn’t take a lot of oil and the frying is somewhere between deep frying and pan frying.
Using a infrared thermometer I get the temp to around 390 because it will lower when the chicken is put in and adjust my GAS flame to keep the temp around 350.
I will turn it, but I judge the doneness on the golden brown of the coating.
Maybe three minutes, but since I blanched or poached the chicken in advance I know the internal temp will indicate it is fully cooked.
I favor Brownberry Hawaiian buns which I toast on my “one burner” flat top which is actually a Lodge 14” cast iron pizza pan.
Had some of my homemade macaroni salad with some chips and I called that Good Eats to steal the line from Alton Brown.
Well, obviously they don’t think they themselves are stupid, otherwise they wouldn’t spend so much on take out food.
Another poster noted, that getting food delivered eliminates clean up and prep work in the kitchen. If someone doesn’t want to spend time in the kitchen, then part of why they get take out food is to save time to do other things. Everyone has different priorities.
Another issue, is that if you spend that much on takeout and delivery, his grocery bill, for grocery shopping, must be close to zero.
The most cost effective way to eat, is to buy your own groceries, cook at home, and never eat out or get takeout food. But not everyone wants to do that. Heck, restaurants would all go out of business, if nobody wanted to eat out.
I think for most people, their food budget and food preparation, are a combination of eating at home, eating out, eating takeout food.
For my own personal household budget, I have categories for grocery shopping for food to eat at home, fast food or carry out, and then restaurant meals with friends or my significant other.
In some months, when I have gone out a lot with friends or the significant other, my grocery expense drops, because I was eating out a lot.
Of course, not everything in life can be reduced to a dollars and cents analysis, including our food budgeting. There are intangibles, such as, enjoying getting together with friends and having a night out.
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In other words if all you’ve got is spelling corrections SHOVE EM
You make money to enjoy your life. He’s chosen how to do so. That’s not stupid. Stop judging other people’s decisions that have no impact on you.
Ain’t no delivery..food service where I live.
I bet all of this will change when all you can carry out are cockroaches and mealworms from the back room.
You vill eat ze bugzzz.
Just trying to help. Rudeness isn’t necessary.
Rudeness in kind for rudeness. Which is all “correcting” spelling is.
If you say so.
It’s the truth. Correcting people’s spelling is being a condescending jerk. If that’s all you have to contribute you have nothing to contribute. And if you do it nobody will be react positively.
Spelling corrections on internest postings is especially galling because many typos are inevitable when typing on a keyboard, especially a tiny phone keyboard. Also, the “auto-correct” feature often replaces properly spelled words with a different word entirely.
And sometimes people just like it that way. I don’t say “walla” like I’m French, I ain’t spelling it that way.
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