Picnics and cookouts are touted as great American traditions. I don't like them. First of all, the weather is either too hot or too cold. Outside seats are uncomfortable; the ground is dusty or too hard or too wet; tables, if existent, are rickety and/or dirty. You have to carry your food and utensils far enough away that if you've forgotten something it's a pain to go back for it. Your hands get sticky and those flimsy paper picnic napkins aren't good for anything.
I think kids like eating outside because they can be as messy as they want to be and don't have to mind their manners. They can run around between courses.
I prefer sitting down at the table with real dishes, real glassware and metal knives and forks. It's OK to use paper napkins, because they don't blow away or fall in the dirt. The temperature is controllable.
Granted, on a picnic you get to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors, but being beset by bees and bird poop is not my favorite way of communing with nature.
Let's hear it for the comfort of the family dinner table--indoors!
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