Prom & Food

MosBen

A friend of mine and I are having a debate: When attending prom, was dinner served at the dance, or did you go to a restaurant beforehand?

(My roommate and I saw a preview for some prom movie coming out, and one of the male characters complained about having to pay for dinner. My roommate scoffed, as he said dinner was served at the dance, while I disagreed. I think the "dinner @ prom" thing is an East Coast thing, but that's why I'm doing this survey. For science.)

syndalis

my prom was in North Carolina, and we went out for dinner first.

Forar

For my class we didn't really have a "prom", it was referred to as "grad", and we had dinner at the venue.

Crazy Ontario folks.

Deebaser

Dinner was served at the proms I went to.
However these were East Coast Proms.

Grid System

Forar wrote:

For my class we didn't really have a "prom", it was referred to as "grad", and we had dinner at the venue.

Crazy Ontario Manitoba folks.

Heir

We ate at a restaurant before going to Prom when I was in highschool in Southeast Texas.

Thomamelas

We went to dinner before the Prom.

amateurhour

Dinner before the Prom. I've never been to or heard of a prom that served food at the event. That sounds like a...

...recipe for disaster

8-)

also, this should totally become an embarrassing prom stories thread.

MosBen

Thomamelas and amateurhour, where did you attend prom?

amateurhour, alright, fine. I don't have any bad prom stories, but I'm pretty sure that after asking this one girl out to several dances during high school, when she was always "busy", her parents made her go to homecoming with me during senior year. It was clear she really didn't want to be there with me, and neither of us had fun. But then, I failed at hint taking. Edit: But I got better!

Thomamelas

I did Prom in Eastern Connecticut.

Sheep

MS here. Took date out to dinner.

Even IF food was served at the dance, the classy thing to do is to hit the town with your date before hand and go get dinner.

Tell your buddy to stop being a cheap ass.

MosBen

Sheep, I've been polling the people at work (live in Philly, work in Jersey), and it seems that having dinner at prom was kind of the thing everyone did out here (other than a couple outliers). Most of the people who had dinner at prom seem to have had their proms at some kind of banquet hall, like at a Marriott, or something, which provided both the space and the food. My semi-small town prom in Easter Washington State was at the big hall at the fair grounds. Nice place, but no food facilities, not that anyone would have expected it.

matt has a problem

My prom was in North Carolina, we went out to dinner before in a big group, and the prom had finger food and punch.

DoctorArch

Went out for dinner one time, and cooked a nice meal the other.

You lurker ;-)

Asiina

Grid System wrote:

Forar wrote:

For my class we didn't really have a "prom", it was referred to as "grad", and we had dinner at the venue.

Crazy Ontario Manitoba Ontario folks.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

I am in Ontario, we did 'prom' not 'grad', and we had dinner at the venue.

Mike Danger

Another Eastern CT prom here, dinner was at the venue (and was actually quite good).

DoctorArch

That is so strange, I don't think that's the case on the West Coast at all.

amateurhour

I was in Alabama for High School

LaOs

I'm in Saskatchewan here, and we had dinner at our Graduation.

But, we also had sort of a winter formal that I guess could have been a "prom" and dinner was served there as well.

Still, we didn't have anything we called "prom". We called that winter formal the Grad Banquet, even though it was in the middle of the year and we had a banquet (and dance) at Grad (and then the school-organised aftergrad party).

MosBen

Yeah, DoctorArch, it seems like dinner at prom is a Northeast thing, but everyone here acts like anything else would be crazy.

DoctorArch

Northeastern'ers eat scrapple. 'Nuff said.

Asiina

LaOs wrote:

I'm in Saskatchewan here, and we had dinner at our Graduation.

But, we also had sort of a winter formal that I guess could have been a "prom" and dinner was served there as well.

Still, we didn't have anything we called "prom". We called that winter formal the Grad Banquet, even though it was in the middle of the year and we had a banquet (and dance) at Grad (and then the school-organised aftergrad party).

Yeah that's basically how ours was as well, including the school-organized aftergrad party where only half the people could drink and it was on a boat.

Drez

I went to two proms and I am pretty sure that food was served at the venue in both cases.

LaOs

Asiina wrote:

LaOs wrote:

I'm in Saskatchewan here, and we had dinner at our Graduation.

But, we also had sort of a winter formal that I guess could have been a "prom" and dinner was served there as well.

Still, we didn't have anything we called "prom". We called that winter formal the Grad Banquet, even though it was in the middle of the year and we had a banquet (and dance) at Grad (and then the school-organised aftergrad party).

Yeah that's basically how ours was as well, including the school-organized aftergrad party where only half the people could drink and it was on a boat.

Ours was a completely dry aftergrad. The next night there were some parties, if I recall.

Yar

Atlanta. Dinner, then Prom.

I totally thought this thread said Porn and Food.

DoctorArch

Yar wrote:

Atlanta. Dinner, then Prom.

I totally thought this thread said Porn and Food.

No comment.

MosBen

My immediate reaction was some joke based around "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!", but it just seemed too gross.

DoctorArch

On one prom night my date got sick and vomited at the prom. So, in a way, food was at the venue.

Joking aside, poor girl was mortified.

Decius

Asiina wrote:

Grid System wrote:

Forar wrote:

For my class we didn't really have a "prom", it was referred to as "grad", and we had dinner at the venue.

Crazy Ontario Manitoba Ontario B.C. folks hippy granola-eating tree huggers.

Though I think it's actually common across the country. We have a prom/grad combined.

Quid

I don't know what was available at my school's prom cause I knew it would be boring and instead went to an art school's prom at the aquarium. My mom took pictures and everything and never knew I went to a different prom.

Ate before, Dallas.

Quid

Also our prom was separate from our grad party. Which I also did not go to.

Thomamelas

Grad was separate. Our grad party was an overnight event where we basically had a YMCA to ourselves. They had a faux casino set up, karaoke. And of course we found lots of hidden nooks.

Nerissa

MT, prom was in the HS gym, dinner before, with an organized after-party at the local equivalent to a country club.

Mike Danger

DoctorArch wrote:

Northeastern'ers eat scrapple. 'Nuff said.

I am a Northeasterner and scrapple is definitely considered a Pennsylvania/New York thing for everyone that I've hung out with.

stevemarks44

Junior Prom we went out beforehand.

Senior Prom/Ball we ate there. Northeast.

Havelock

NorCal. Had a prom junior year and senior year. Both were at a crappy Hilton located 40 minutes away from the HS, catered by the cooking staff (who were equally terrible). Junior year prom we ate at the venue, and it was bad. Senior year we went out to a more local place and had a really good meal.

I enjoyed my junior year prom/date more than my senior year prom/date, though.

MosBen

Scrapple is also a Jersey thing.

DoctorArch

Mike Danger wrote:

DoctorArch wrote:

Northeastern'ers eat scrapple. 'Nuff said.

I am a Northeasterner and scrapple is definitely considered a Pennsylvania/New York thing for everyone that I've hung out with.

You're all tainted by geographical proximity.

wandering

I never went to prom.

DoctorArch

wandering wrote:

I never went to prom.

I assure you, you didn't miss very much.