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Well said, jerkface

I get the appeal of a home cooked meal, but that doesn't automatically mean that going to a restaurant is a bad option. Also I don't get the entitlement, where do their expectations come from?

Yep that pretty much hits home.

Were Soviet era restaurants so bad that they all prefer home cooked? Or were they unaffordable for the average citizen back then? Or was it just a social norm to cook food for your guests?

They usually cook when I come over, I guess now they expect me to return the favor

I get it, but on the other hand I don't want to spend half of my birthday in the kitchen

I get the sense that it's very common or at least used to be common in Soviet Union to always invite your friends to your home and treat them to home made meals when there was something to celebrate. It seems that going out to restaurants used to be not an option for whatever reason, but I can only guess.