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Article: Ingredients in the Cupboard Produce Dinner in 35 Minutes
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 7, 1993
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`What's for dinner?" may sound like a harmless question, but it
can unleash a whirlwind of fury.
When the National Potato Board conducted small group discussions
with 80 women in four cities, it discovered the high level of
frustration many women feel at dinnertime. The women were asked to
express their feelings about the dinner hour by drawing a picture.
One drawing showed a woman at the bottom of a tornado, and another
featured a time bomb. Clearly, emotions about dinner can run high.
When the survey was expanded to a telephone study of 500 women,
it found that women spend nearly twice as long preparing dinner as
they would like. They would rather spend 35 minutes on dinner but ...