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this is turning into reddit faster than expected
Perfect 5/7 edit
GenX are the new Boomers
What the fuck did we do? Generally we ain’t concerned with anyone’s shit.
Nah… I kinda am.
PLEASE tell me I inspired this!! Is this its first appearance? My GenZ son is gonna be so god damned pleased!!
Oh you definitely were xD figured you'd appreciate some ribbing back
Thanks.
My son really opened my head about the versatility of meming. It’s like the conversation under the conversation.
Millennial here. Definitely been cooking a lot more. The quality of fast food and most restaurants have gone down while the prices go up.
I'm 30 and i detest delivery services becauae they feel so exploitative and ick, learn to cook beans
Instapot for almost anything.
I prefer cooking meals over food delivery and I don't think it's fair to scoff at those who do the latter. Time constraints and exhaustion-from-a-9-to-5 and all that.
I decided to work on a cookbook not too long ago that specifically attempts to address this, one which is focused on spending as MINIMAL time on cooking as possible whilst being somewhat "affordable" and "easy to remember", if that makes sense...
Wait, it's all chili?
Thank you for reading my new cookbook "I Can't Believe I Shit My Pants... AGAIN?!"
All 7 or 8 types of it.
$40 for a cheap meal delivered to my door ready to eat ... made by someone who doesn't like their job, made with the cheapest ingredients, in a questionable kitchen, by a worker I trust follows proper hygiene, processed by a series of people who will take care of my food to be handed off to some guy who I trust will take care of my food as it travels to my house with everyone being paid as minimally as possible so that several companies can squeeze as much profit out of the transaction as possible.
Or I just take a few hours every weekend to make a ton of good food to eat for the entire week.
i envy people who are okay with eating the same thing all week long.
if i had it 2x before in the last 3 days; i don't want to see i again for a few weeks/months.
Millennial here, fuck DD. I love cooking.
It's either time or money. If you have one but not the other, do what works, it's fine, stop judging.
If you have neither though...
I love the openheartedness and tolerance implicit in the “stop judging” vibe, but what if we apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to it. How does it hold up?
Are you saying we should be tolerant of judgements placed upon large groups of people divided along arbitrary lines? Does the accuracy and universality of those judgements about each group hold up to the test of scrutiny and are they even based upon concrete evidence? If those judgements are accurate and universally true across those groups, should we be passing judgement upon each group for their differences? Is this a universal application of empathy?
Should we be tolerant of intolerance? I think not.
I feel seen
Interesting, my experience has been the exact opposite.
What specifically do you mean?
Seeing GenX blow money on deliveries while all the millenials I know are anti-Delivery
We are hanging out with different crowds.
I’m a 42 year old millennial guy and I’ve been cooking 90% of my meals for years, learn to cook fam, it’s a good skill and girls find it attractive.
I remember when we Xers were 42… it happens sooo fast!
Im broke okay? There is no choice.
At what point did doing things for yourself become cringe?
Methinks this is what the collapse of civilization looks like.
Nah, social division of labour is almost as old as civilization itself. It's not possible to do everything by yourself, if you're lucky enough not to die of hunger in a few weeks, you'll die of a preventable disease within a few years.
Capitalist exploitation of it (combined with faux individualism) is the issue.
Translating to this scenario, there would be no issue if we had community kitchens with cheap/free food and well-paid workers. The issue is the capitalists extracting surplus value from a basic necessity, partly by convincing everyone to hate their neighbours and eat alone.
I get what you say but I don't understand who said that was cringe?
And now, I feel seen.
I’m reading AGAINST THE MACHINE: the unmaking of humanity. It’s in this neighborhood. You might like it.
Today I made vegetarian salisbury steaks using impossible patties, store bought broth, and fresh veggies and herbs (and some stuff I had laying around). I spent less than $15 total (costco, price per unit) on the ingredients. It took 2 hours of cooking.
Assuming a wage of $25/hr, lower than adequate but relatively high in service fields in the US (those who work enough that delivery is super tempting), my meal cost me $65 including my labor. That's less than it'd cost for delivery of a similar meal, is higher quality than I could get for delivery, and I've got leftovers for tomorrow, which I wouldn't get with delivery.
Delivery is a scam. Gig economy Based delivery doubly so.
I think we’re here at Lemmy because we’re not there — most of us I mean — following along with all the popular trends in the mainstream. And your dish sound fantastic. My challenge with impossible patties is that I get cramping if I eat them and I’m not sure why but they are startlingly convincing.
Never ordered to office or to home.
So not every Gen Z :p
Almost everyday my wife and I cook dinner together. For that time there's no phones, no distractions. I treasure that time with her everyday.
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