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Originally Posted by CDSmith
For one thing there's a lot less traffic on the roads for the 15km drive over to the parental unit's house on Sunday.
For another, the rest of the family who have things called "jobs" are usually free on Sunday, but not generally on Mondays or Thursdays.
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Well some families attend church first and then all end up at a one house for a large meal and weekly get together. Others as mentioned just used it as a day to get together because it was a day off almost everyone had. Even those that had hard schedules usually at least got Sunday off. Plus for many there was usually televised sports on for part if not most of the day.
I have typically seen it more with ethnic families than I have with your average very integrated leave it to beaver style white family.
Such dinners also were built to leave plenty of additional food to be used throughout the week for fast dinners and typically ones fathers lunch box.
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Now, the sunday church thing - making it "we're already together, how about dinner". Makes some slight sense, but it's still no tradition. Neither it Smith's answer, it's still an assumption on convenience.
It's not like either way I've heard of this sunday dinner thing. Still something that is .. well just as you guys put it. Not a tradition or anything normal.