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Commitment issues with your own kitchen, delivered in a bag.
means Food that's cooked at a restaurant and packaged for you to carry home and eat, instead of dining in.
from Straightforward compound English: 'take' plus 'out,' describing exactly what you do — take the food out of the restaurant. It rose alongside 20th-century car culture and the rise of phone-in orders; Americans say 'takeout,' while British English favors 'takeaway,' same idea, different direction of the verb.
- origin
- term split from British takeaway around 20th century U.S. usage
- peak irony
- you own pots you have never used
- receipt tell
- itemized fees often exceed the food's actual cost
- napkin math
- cheaper to cook, nobody disputes this and does it anyway