Yeah, we'll get takeout a bit more frequently, since it's a lot cheaper.

That's a huge part of it too I'm sure.

Ground up, battered and fried = safe to eat in a kid's mind.

That's what we thought too. We lived in Chicago and when we started having kids we fancied ourselves to be those kind of urban sophisticated parents who took their small children to exotic ethnic restaurants and so on. We learned real quick. 4 year olds don't want pad thai or wat and injera. Even if they end up liking…

We go out to eat with the kids maybe three times a year, not a week. Even in a cheaper place the bill is going to be pushing $100 for all of us.

Nope, speaking from experience.

Exactly. They're generally not interested in having their parents' highfalutin' dining tastes forced on them. They want what they want.

Nah, kids tend to naturally gravitate towards simple mainstream stuff. We learned early on to leave the kids with a babysitter if we were going out to eat anywhere other than a diner.

Not just autistic children. Most young kids only want simple and familiar foods.

Kids are not interested in adventurous sophisticated eating, at all. They want familiar, simple and recognizable. Don't waste your time and money taking them to "real" restaurants.

Still haven't seen that one. It's on my list.

My main complaint with the movie was having 30-year olds playing characters who were supposed to be 15-16.

I had a copy once with a glossary in back with definitions for the Nadsat words and etymological explanations of how they were derived from Russian and in some cases (if I remember correctly) Cockney slang.

I rewatched both in recent months, for the first time in 20 years or so, and I concur, I found Day to be better than Dawn.

Not to mention the ending.

Saw it even younger than that, 5 or 6 I think, thanks to clueless parents, and it scarred me. I still have the occasional NOTLD nightmare forty-some years later.

I love the abruptly brutal ending of Martin in particular.

Has anyone, ever, actually seen There’s Always Vanilla?

Flawed, but I always thought it was a pretty good psychological horror film. Great friggin ending too.

I think Romero is on record saying as much.