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That's ridiculous. Would you say the same about areas where people consume more microwaved dinners over cooked meals? That the people cooking their meals are ju

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > That the people cooking their meals are just resistant to change? That's not what I said in the coffee case; I said that the preference differences between places with strong coffee traditions and those without may be partially due to the fact that having a strong tradition of coffee drinking includes a culture attached to the ritual of preparation. I did not say that the people in an area that has a relatively strong preference for instant who individually do not are "just resistant to change". That being said, you certainly might see something similar in regional distribution of preferences for prepackaged foods vs. freshly-prepared foods that aren't explained by other socioeconomic factors, though I'd expect that "food" is general enough that you it would be a very weak factor (though probably much stronger if you look at specific foods rather than "food" as a whole.)