Whenever my family comes to visit me in Chicago, I have to remember that and take them to the appropriate restaurants. Places that aren't too fancy or expensive, or have what they would consider "weird food" on the menu, or anyplace where I'd have to translate the menu for them.
This is totally my family too. Which is frustrating sometimes, because a) many of my favourite restaurants have what they would consider weird food and b) many in my family are very passive aggressive when it comes to eating out: "No, no, let's go wherever you like. I'll eat anything." Followed by: "Oh, I don't like curry." "They won't have weird food there will they?" I don't mind chain restaurants and diners, just tell me what you want to eat!
Wouldn't Old Money people have more than one room with sofas etc, where a tv would be appropriate?
It probably just isn't the most public space in the house.
Is TV déclassé? I can see it being so in the '60s and '70s, but....
Yikes, my family almost always had a small TV in the kitchen, the family TV in the den and no TV in the living room.
Well, in the public living room - you're supposed to be visiting with people.
I think anyone with both a living room and a den has the TV in the den -- even my other grandmother who has the plastic on the sofa in the living room.
We had a tv on a little wheelie cart that we could swing back and forth between the living room and the dining room. We ALWAYS watched the news while we ate dinner. And listened to my grandpa bitch about Jimmy Carter. Or maybe dirty eye-talian food when we were served pasta. Yes. My grandpa was sometimes Archie Bunker. And I am half italian.
The den/family room.
Hey we had one of those. We were old money, and I didn't even know it. The lack of money might have had something to do with it.
