Poll : How long have you been eating?

I guess I felt it was impolite to ask how old everyone is!

This came from the "Dressing for Dinner" thread in this forum. My feeling is that I am on the younger side of the people posting, or at least in that particular thread.

I would like everyone to answer the poll, if you don't want to comment in the thread, it's understandable, but the poll itself in anonymous.

Thanks
SSDD

FYI -- I turned 28 in June.

headcase wrote:FYI -- I turned 28 in June.

After my cranky old-man style rants against backward-worn baseball caps, you hazarded a guess I was in your parents' generation, or even their parents'. Although that might have seemed a fair conclusion (and I'll think long and hard about the implications), I take great pleasure in announcing that on October 12, 2005 I will turn 39. That means unless your parents were particularly precocious, I am actually at the leading edge of YOUR generation, headcase. Sorry about that.

We both proved that generalizations, are just that general. So with this new knowledge I'll have to reform an opinion on why your feelings are the way that they are. Does it matter? Not really, but I find it interesting to find out why people are the way that they are. Nature vs Nurture anyone? Upper class vs middle vs lower class? Religious Church-goer vs Not? Of course these are all rhetorical questions, but it is the way I have a tendency to think.

So anyway thanks for coming forward with this info, and there shows there is a reason I don't bet.

Headcase, I think yr right on the money. Especially in a balkanized city such as Chicago(land) artificial sociological divisions influence the minutia of everyday life in an absurdly parochial fashion. I'm not a native Chicagoan(I'm a Texan) but, I've learned to appear to acclimate myself.
What brings one to a foodsite such as this? What informs one's (sometime)culinary pretensions? To what extent does one politicize his culinary (mis)apprehensions? How and why does one conform to supposedly erudite and objective cultural information? A lot of it's sex: dress codes, food codes, language codes.

Christopher Gordon wrote: A lot of it's sex: dress codes, food codes, language codes.

Maybe that is another one of my problems, I've been with the same person too long. So as long as she is happy with me, I don't give damn what others think. That would explain alot.

I was stationed on Ft. Hood (Killeen, TX) for almost two years, and spent another four months or so on Ft Bliss (El Paso, TX) But Texas is a very big place, I doubt you were close to either.

Getting completely off the subject: my father's twin sister's lived in El Paso forever. Growing up(in Houston) my nextdoor neighbors had property in Killeen. My parents owned property outside of Brenham. Post-divorce my das split time between Austin and Houston. And, he and I used to go on extensive camping trips in Big Bend. I've never much cared for anything above and including the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex being more comfortable along the Piney Woods/Brazos, Hill Country, far West Texas belt. Long story short my family's been in TX for quite a few generations(we even have a Texas hero or two in our geneaology---but take that with a grain of salt). After visiting Chicago during my school years, I've now lived here for 8 or so years. And before that San Francisco and before THAT rural Ohio.

headcase - This was a great idea! I really hope all the regular posters will repond to the poll (the anonymity is key here, of course!). One interesting thing is that so far, the curve is relatively flat, if you exclude those under 21 and the smaller group over 60 (a slight lead for those in their 30s, but with this tiny sample size, statistically insignificant). Anyway, this kind of geeky number stuff is a special favorite of mine. I'm going to watch this thread like CNN during Desert Storm (oops, did that expose my age? )