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Gee, it sound rather chique, "food court". Never heard it before and I understand it just means the opposite. The basic design feature of a food court is that the mall provides a common seating area that is convenient to a large number of fast food restaurant counters at the periphery. It's not that chic, but the one at my local mall is not particularly unpleasant either. One of the big appeals of a food court is that members of a party may each get food from a separate vendor and yet everyone can still sit together at one table. I've been with people who are shopping with children, especially teens and tweens, and the food court is great for them for precisely this reason: they can each get what s/he desires, and some harmony is restored or achieved at least for the interim.
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Next time I will pay my respects to Food Court. (thank you both)
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Do you have anything equivalent in Netherlands?
Or are all eating establishments local restaurants of whatever
size?
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Sheesh. How much is there to say about food courts?
food court n. A designated area in public high schools wherein the inmates can conduct food fights (cf.) without disturbing other inmates; generally funded by the school lunch program.
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Having taught in a number of high schools I can verify that.
However the teachers' lunch rooms were little better: they
did nothing but digest students.
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Eek! Have we a cannibal on Board?
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You say dey be eatin' at Wheaton???
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Eek! Have we a cannibal on Board? It was almost that bad: I finally refused to eat with the teachers and sat with the students despite the food wars. The teachers would go in, sit down and proceed with slandering the kids. ("Do you know what Billy Goat did in class today? Well let me tell you".)(That's nothing, you should hear Sally Wally and her discussion with a couple others.) They could not wait to repeat the gossip. Literally digest kids instead of "getting away from" them, and letting things rest. It was hard to listen to. So I left.
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Sheesh. How much is there to say about food courts?
More than are dreamt of in your philosophy?
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Apparently so. Was that a sling or an arrow, my philosophizing friend?
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