# Did you ever know somebody with a kitchen combined with a large family dining table?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-know-somebody-with-a-kitchen-combined-with-a-large-family-dining-table/724044 "2015-07-02T14:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-know-somebody-with-a-kitchen-combined-with-a-large-family-dining-table/724044/41 "2015-07-07T12:02:59Z")

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We have a dining room complete with china cabinet and buffet. The table has a leaf we put in for family dinners and parties.

The first time my daughter visited us the leaf was still in from a recent party and I had her convinced that we ate all our meals at this table with me on one end and my gf waaay down at the other end.

😃#BadDad

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**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-know-somebody-with-a-kitchen-combined-with-a-large-family-dining-table/724044/42 "2015-07-07T23:53:54Z")

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The house that I grew up in had a 30’X15’ kitchen that couldhold 3 of the folding tables borrowedfrom the church when we’d host thanksgiving dinner for Mom’s side of the family. There was also a dining room, but no table there untilone was inherited. We were working class.

Even in my 700 square foot apartment, there’s room in the kitchen (great room really, but I only count the linoleum part as the kitchen) to extend the gate leg table to seat six.

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