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Lazy Leftist Zillennials (Including Grandma Taylor Lorenz) Discover a New Right: The Right for People to Order Expensive Food on DoorDash for Every Single Meal

I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.

And lazy. It takes about 45 minutes to batch cook simple meals for 3-4 days. And it's cheap. Yes, eggs are more expensive now, but when I batch cook scrambled eggs with ham, pepper, and onion, it costs about $20 to make five meals.

But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).

Boy these "young" people sure are "tired" a lot, aren't they? Kind of like Joe Biden. Who is 84 years old.

If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it.

If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later... well a lot f 23 year olds are just ready for retirement, I guess.

Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them. Wouldn't want the senile young invalids wandering off.

Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson

May 21

Anybody who claims they don't have time to make a sandwich should be required to post their screentime stats

Did you catch that? This delicate lily says that he can't cook the luxe meals he sees being advertised on TikTok and YouTube by food "creators."

So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either. (Which btw I had a month ago and it was incredible.)

And this is also bullshit anyway, because 75% of TikTok/YouTube cooking content is super-simple "One Pan" casserole recipes where the whole selling point is it takes one single pan, four or five ingredients, 45 minutes at 450 and you're done.

Seriously go to YouTube and search for "One Pan." One Pan is a big category of social media cooking.

But this Precious Princess wants to eat truffled avocado toast and doesn't know how to make it so people are going to have to pay for his DoorDash!

(BTW, I figure you can make truffled avocado toast with, and this is just off the top of my dome, toast, avocado, and truffle oil.)


Oh, and in addition to being lazy, helpless, Useless Mouths and self-made invalids, they're also completely illiterate.


This trend started when a high school kid handed a card containing a simple sentence -- something like "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche" -- to fellow students and school officials and most could not read the words "silhouette" or "gauche" and could not say what the sentence meant.

Many were tripped up by "extraordinary."

I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:48 PM




Comments

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1 I nooded

Posted by: the lower depths at May 22, 2026 02:49 PM (Dg7ng)

2 Thanks to Covid, a generation of shut-ins.

Bring back Home Ec classes, stat!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:50 PM (4KUe5)

3 So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either. (Which btw I had a month ago and it was incredible.)

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Add jalapenos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:51 PM (46HP8)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (LdBR/)

5 These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.

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I hear that India is the best country on earth with the best minds building all the best things.

They could go there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (46HP8)

6 Seem to recall Granny Lorenz posting a sad picture of an avacado toast she had delivered and complained about the cost.

Avacado
Toast

Literally bread+avacado

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (4KUe5)

7 >>>1 I nooded
Posted by: the lower depths at May 22, 2026 02:49 PM (Dg7ng)

You catch that Blade? 1st post.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (q177U)

8 I read the content. I must be too tired to remember how this is supposed to work.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (Wmg4n)

9 The hardest part of fruits, vegetables and nuts is carving them into the shape of breasts. Aside from that, food preparation would be so easy.

Just wash and eat....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 02:53 PM (Sco7b)

10 I might be mistaken, but I don't think Kevin O'Leary has anything to do with throwing the book at a side-walk self-deputized executioner.

(The left doesn't really disapprove of anything--including "vigilantism", which they've been saying they are against my whole life.)

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

11 I don't get it, do these millenials all live in vans down by the river and lack basic cooking facilities?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (0N4FZ)

12 NOW. do you understand why is is so important that Thai food be available at 3:00 am?????

We must important third world workers to make our after hours num-nums!

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (4KUe5)

13 I admit to using DoorDash, but that's because my apartment's kitchen isn't wheelchair friendly. I don't want to microwave fish, for example, which I enjoy on Fridays.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (qx7Zg)

14 We go out to eat like once a month. 38% really???

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (q177U)

15
Mister Scott,

They are lazy.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (3ek7K)

16 11 I don't get it, do these millenials all live in vans down by the river and lack basic cooking facilities?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (0N4FZ)

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They seem to rack up credit card bills ordering food for delivery because they can't be bothered to buy ground meat and buns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (46HP8)

17 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (N8ZBc)

18 I make good money by any standard.

Doordash seems an outrageous expenditure to me.

Just go get it yourself if you are doing taking out versus paying X2 as much for the food.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

19 A=432 hz. Harmonious resonance of the Universe
A=440 hz. Nazi plot to enslave humanity.

This is actually a conspiracy theory that some hold.
Posted by: Common Tater

https://tinyurl.com/3vx9ecs3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (ndZc7)

20 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

21 20 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

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About $1.75 per dozen at my Aldi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (46HP8)

22 "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche" -- to fellow students and school officials and most could not read the words "silhouette" or "gauche" and could not say what the sentence meant.
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To be fair I'm not sure what that means either, unless it means you're dressing like Alfred Hitchcock.

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (vSvIl)

23 From the left's adoption of "Vigilantism against Corporations", i.e. specific vigilantism, I introduce Axeman's Razor:

You should not assume that a leftist means what they are saying no matter how many times you've heard it from them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)

24 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons,

I have never lived anywhere in my life where I didn't have access with something to cook with. Yes even when I was dirt poor.

And I remember I could make my limited $$$ stretch as far as I needed to by making smart choices at the grocery store.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (sKqQm)

25
1876: Farmer gets up at 4:00 AM to begin 14 hour day by milking cows in -20 degree weather.

2026: Gen Z can't get out of bed for three days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (HdYcL)

26 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

27 I have never door dashed anything. I thought about it for Beef Egg Foo Yung, but I had never tried the place before and did not want it to be a massive financial investment on top of food poisoning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

28 Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (4KUe5)

It was too much work to toast the bread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (n3VHW)

29 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Hey!

Posted by: Fake at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

30 I had my first one of these kiddos show up at a job interview with a parent. I actually laughed at the scene and didn't apologize (especially when the parent followed his daughter into my inteview room without any consideration for MY rules).

I might have overstepped my bounds by explaining to both the Father and the girl applying that it was not good optics or very good judgement on their part. I told them in the first few minutes that she wasn't getting the job because of this behavior. I simply asked, "How can I trust you with my business if you don't even trust yourself enough to secure a position within on your own?"

AND, you think these self-indulgent snow flakes can cook their own meals?

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)

31
It's the Democrat politicians that have convinced people they can't work.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (Y8DZL)

32 This is learned behavior.
Kicked into high gear with Covid. Must sit home and have others do the work.

I don’t entirely blame these people. The mindset has been crafted with tech, insisting it’s better to not own or do anything, help is an app away!! Comfort is only a few clicks away.

You will own nothing, have no privacy, yada yada yada…

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (4KUe5)

33 I have never used grub hub or any of the food delivery apps.

I order a pizza for delivery once a year or so, and it’s from the local pizzeria.

I go out to eat maybe once a month. Probably
Less. Too expensive and I can do a better job myself.

Meh. If you want to order delivery, do it. But don’t whine to me about being broke. And don’t tell me it’s a “right.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (A5RD0)

34 I have been in the middle of this and its... truly bizarre.

Yes, everything is too expensive these days. The Biden depression caused horrendous inflation that we're still struggling with. Yes, homes cost ridiculous amounts. These are real frustrations for young people that I wholly sympathise with.

But they are lunatics on this, driven largely by living a notable percentage of their life in the Panic Lockdowns, when they got checks in the mail for merely existing and could order doordash every day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (5yqx7)

35 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

We have ENDLESS access to simple, delicious recipes via YouTube and other social media platforms. Stuff any culinary n00b can make if they simply pay attention to the directions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

36 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

There' NO SCENTED WIPES!?
-Probably

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (zZu0s)

37 Ive rarely used doordash and uber eats but lately Ive been on a tear as Ive been spending every waking moment working and by the time Im done Im too exhausted to think about meal planning

The right approach is using Walmart Plus with their InHome addon, I get free deliveries without needing to tip as long as Im fine with next day delivery

Ditto Kroger's own delivery service, I use this with Walmart to order groceries and food thats basically ready to eat and so i can avoid people who I cant fucking stand anymore

I havent sen the sun in weeks though

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (fapp/)

38 Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them.

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Ship them to Pacific Palisades.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (BcFIZ)

39 35 Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

======

"Spices?"
-the British

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (46HP8)

40 I had Walmart deliver my groceries to my door last weekend. I felt like a fancy man.

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (HcoTw)

41 I get the feeling HP Lovecraft would have used DoorDash a lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (gKWVE)

42 This is learned behavior.
Kicked into high gear with Covid. Must sit home and have others do the work.

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (4KUe5)
---
The revolutionists only need to degrade us by small steps.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)

43 Avacado toast is only slightly more difficult than jam on toast.

I mean, who are you if you can’t do that????

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (4KUe5)

44 @6 AVOCADO

Bimini: Beam in eye?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (zdLoL)

45 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

46 The same idiots spending $25k a year on food delivery and Starfucks and dumb entertainment and frivolity are whining and crying about how expensive houses and cars are.

"But I can't affooooooooord a house, they're sooooooooo expensive. It's somebody else's fault!"

Don't get me wrong: anyone can spend their money any way they want (although I'll bet a lot of this is daddy's money). But you can only spend it once. Don't whine and cry to me that you can't afford a house or apartment when you're spending all your money on frivolity.

It's insane to me that almost all the 20-somethings I know spend way more money than me on delivery and Starfucks and other overpriced shit. And I have 500x the net worth they do.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

47 41 I get the feeling HP Lovecraft would have used DoorDash a lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (gKWVE)

=======

"DoorDash is the language of the Old Ones. I would never do it unless I craved the madness. That's more of Monday morning thing."
-Lovecraft

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (46HP8)

48
I've never had food delivered. I might run out to Honoré's Cajun or Big Horn Barbecue for something to go, however.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (HdYcL)

49 YOU'RE TIRED BECAUSE YOU SPEND ALL NIGHT DOOMSCROLLING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING!

Posted by: pookysgirl, banging this drum yet again at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt5PA)

50 36 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

There' NO SCENTED WIPES!?
-Probably

Bro, do you even bidet?

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

51 but the attitude by these youngsters is shocking. They don't whine, they get ENRAGED when you suggest they ought to make themselves lunch or get cheaper stuff to eat for lunch.

Suggest they make a turkey sandwich they scream about carcinogens and eating like a prisoner. Suggest they eat PBJ, they howl that you think they are infants. Suggest they can buy cheap meals at the local grocery store deli section and they rage at you for wanting them to eat "poverty food"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (5yqx7)

52 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (q177U)

53 I knew how to cook. At least to follow a recipe. I lived alone for a long time. I didn't cook hardly at all because it was no fun cooking for myself. I like to cook for somebody else and I enjoy it when they enjoy it. If its just me, most of the time I didn't cook. What these people are is LONELY. GET OFF YOUR FCKING PHONES AND MEET SOMEBODY.

Posted by: Yeah, I'm a Dad of teens/young adults at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (anL5R)

54 I saw Hopeless Invalids open for Gauche Silhouette at the Hollywood Bowl in 95. Sade was much better and not gauche at all and I enjoyed her silhouette….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (+gA9j)

55 I got some door dash gift cards and finally decided to use them - $30 to get a cheese steak and onion rings delivered to my place. It would have cost half that at the local pizza place, but they had just closed by the time I got home from work that night.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (FLx59)

56 45 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

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I see it in context as "in bad taste".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP8)

57 Even with the explosion in food prices via Bidenflation a pound of hamburger, a jar of store pasta sauce, and a box of store noodles will fill you up cheap, and it takes less then 30m, most of that not requiring your attention

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

58
I realize everyone doesn't have room for a freezer.

We live in a very rural area with very few restaurants.

When we cook we make large quantities of food and freeze most of it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (3ek7K)

59 The Dems "believe in Evolution" and "Survival of the fittest" is how we climbed the ladder.

Dems 2026: I'm too tired to cook for myself.

There's an illustration in there somewhere....

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

60 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Right... Tacky

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (FtULh)

61 YOU'RE TIRED BECAUSE YOU SPEND ALL NIGHT DOOMSCROLLING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING!
Posted by: pookysgirl, banging this drum yet again at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt5PA)

I feel seen. And a bit hurt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

62 Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.

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Many of us survived on Kaboom and Kraft Mac 'N Cheese as children and young adults.

lol gf

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (BcFIZ)

63 Bro, do you even bidet?
Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

It’s for cleaning your backside, right?!

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (+gA9j)

64 Why do you need to grill a fried cheese sandwich? It's already been cooked.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (J4Dwc)

65 It's constitutional! It's in the convenience clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

66 I realize everyone doesn't have room for a freezer.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (3ek7K)
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Too bad they don't make freezers out of jello.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

67 60 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Right... Tacky

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (FtULh)

====

Not everything is Weird Al, lady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP8)

68 I know what "silhouette" is, and how to spell it, but I would never use it in the sense that it is used in that particular sentence. To me it is a shadow with a recognizable outline, like chrome mudflap girls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (8zz6B)

69 I really do sympathize with young folks who have been getting ripped off by the education industrial complex. Time was. one could go to a state university and (mostly) pay for it on a low wage job, maybe get yourself a little into debt but nothing like nowadays.

But that sympathy evaporates when some douche nozzle starts talking about how PB&J and chips is what they serve prisoners. You're too good to eat on a budget? Fine, please tell your story walking, cork soaker. Hope you get dysentery from the "locally sourced" unwashed lettuce on your chipotle burrito.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Iwv3U)

70 I have been seeing these rants.
I'm very fortunate that I have a wife that cooks, but even before that I could scrap around the kitchen.

I get it if you've never done it, it can be hard to give it a go.
It sounds silly, but the food network competition shows taught me a ton about how to make things work. Shows like Chopped where people get a mystery bag of ingredients and have to make something edible.
They end up teaching what flavors go together... it helps. In fact my wife and I will have chopped nights where we pull stuff out of the fridge and try to make something work.

Anyway.. it's significantly cheaper and allows you to be significantly healthier.

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

71 "If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it."

I seriously doubt that Joey cooks his own ice cream.

Posted by: Speller at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (pSotA)

72 All of my children spent time with me in the kitchen from the moment they were born. Once they were able, even as littles, they got jobs. Stir this, pour that. Did it result in bigger messes? Yes. Did it slow things WAY down? Also yes. Can all 3 of my children cook? Yes.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Wmg4n)

73 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Left instead of right. Not right, against the grain. Possibly of the devil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

74 Their main argument when pinned down by absolute facts, they scream about how saving 3000 a year on lunch will never buy them a house!! A HOUSE!!!1!1!!!!

Well no, no one suggested that you can buy a house by eating more frugally. Obviously.

But maybe if you stopped buying 2-3 coffee-flavored milkshakes a day, 8 streaming services, 12 online subscriptions you largely forgot about, doordash dinner most of the week, a new smart phone every time Apple puts one out, going to Disneyworld every year on your credit card etc, etc, etc well... maybe you could buy a cheap starter house in a less expensive part of the country after a few years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (5yqx7)

75
It all started with remote controls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (HdYcL)

76 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

****************

Well even the basic keto recipes I collect online all require 83 ingredients including obscure ingredients I have to special order on Amazon that takes 3 weeks to arrive

it finally dawned on me that perhaps the mommy bloggers with their endless recipes that are 10 pages long because they prefix it with their life stories might just be a tad full of shit

Since then I discovered the art of grilling steak to medium rare or medium with salt pepper and butter and... thats it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (fapp/)

77 All I know is my oldest is eager to get a job and to get the driver license. I must be doing something right.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (xI3lH)

78 Re: poverty, I remember how the government got upset when it turned out a lot of African-origin immigrants on food stamps were feeding their own families healthy rice, beans, and veggie diets, and then using the leftover food stamps to ship barrels of rice and beans home to their relatives overseas.

This is why they have the legal language about EBT being intended to feed you and _your_ family, not other people. Same thing for the rules against using the food stamp food to create income for yourself by selling your cooking.

This was happening in expensive blue-state cities, so I figure that everybody can afford to cook rice, beans, and veggies.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (uGBVQ)

79 BTW this is all repurposed "Food Desert" discourse from the 2000s-2010s in which lefties LARP in their minds as poor urban people (inner city people are the only "true" poors). The lefties say "(enormously obese with type II diabetes) poor people can't afford to eat." Then you point out that dried beans and rice and chicken thighs or whatever can make 8 servings for $5.99 which is the price of a value meal cheeseburger and they would claim that "these people are exhausted from (not) working all day and after watching four kids (from three fathers) all day the last thing someone wants to do is slave over a stove!" Then you point out that for whatever their faults the "immigrants" who work long hours of grueling manual labor still cook their own meals and they just put their fingers in their ears and scream "lalalalala." You know what the source for the dependence upon prepared foods for this age cohort/class is? Having gone to college where there is an endless variety of satisfying foods to sample. That's it - they're overgrown children who stopped maturing in thirteenth grade and they "just can't adult" most days.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (ssz2a)

80 Want to fix affordability?

Send all the illegals and H1Bs home and put a 20y mortarium on immigration - housing fixed.

Get the government OUT of healthcare - healthcare costs fixed

Throw criminals in jail so you can run an inner city grocery store - food prices fixed.

Oh and half federal and state taxes as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

81 Oh, and she cooks family meals and cookies and cakes.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (xI3lH)

82 Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

Your wife would have to cook by necessity. Have you hit eight yet? I have 8 kids in the pool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

83 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

I think it just means unfashionable, since most people are right-handed?

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vSvIl)

84 I mean, almost all of us are of a certain age, and we know what it was like to grow up. We remember our 3.15 minimum wage not being enough to move out into our starter home, we ate ramen and peanut butter and lived with 5 of our buddies in a house we couldn't afford to heat. Wear a coat. And some gloves.

Then we got a better job, and worked hard, and got promoted and earned more and maybe eventually did quite well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (5yqx7)

85 83 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

I think it just means unfashionable, since most people are right-handed?

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vSvIl)

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Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP8)

86 It’s my observation, but I bet I’m not the first, the simple basic recipes often taste the best.

4 or 5 ingredients, tops. “Comfort food”. Meat & potatoes, or pasta. Chicken & Rice. Egg dishes, there are plenty.

Chili. (Not including Carrot, mind you) is easy to make and nutritious.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (wzze2)

87 English-speaking, American students couldn't read, pronounce, or comprehend the following sentence:

"She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but gauche"

Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

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Unexpectedly, they were all admitted to Harvard.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (BcFIZ)

88 The responses to "make your own lunch" are absolutely bat-shit insane. I'm sure some of them are trolling or just the chaff of online idiots, but the bulk of them are so unwarranted I do worry about the future of this Republic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (diia5)

89 75
It all started with remote controls.

I started out as the remote. Also the antenna turner.

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (HcoTw)

90 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons,
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They need to excused from all expectations of life, they are so poor.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

91 Ackshually, eggs have gone from $14.10 per 60 eggs during SpongeBrain ShitPants' Reign of Error, to $7.13 per 60 eggs now. Which is pretty remarkable.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (/RHNq)

92
I see it in context as "in bad taste".
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Obviously, because the left hand is for the toilet.

Posted by: Ali Muhammed Dirka Dirka at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (anL5R)

93
But, but, but, I'd have to buy spices ... and EGGS!

* bursts into tears and sucks on thumb in a corner *

* wails *

Where's my wubbie!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (s9VOe)

94 I actually saw choice steak last night at a reasonable price and did not get it. I must be coming down with commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

95 it finally dawned on me that perhaps the mommy bloggers with their endless recipes that are 10 pages long because they prefix it with their life stories might just be a tad full of shit


I don't know how many "recipe" links I've closed after opening one and seeing pages of not recipe.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

96 My kid did doordash for a bit between jobs. His 2 year old son decided he was the boss when he figured out the app and clicked on everything that came down.
Son had to quit as he couldn't work for that slavedriver.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (594J6)

97 Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking conten

**************

I saw a tiktok do a recipe of tart candy and steak calling it steaktart or something

mkay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (fapp/)

98
Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Dozen Jumbo eggs for two bucks here.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Cqx++)

99 When I was in college I lived off campus and cooked for myself. My two staples were spaghetti (fry the ground beef and mix with a sauce created from a powder bought from the store mixed with water to create the sauce; boil noodles… voila spaghetti) and a strange combo involving Kraft Mac n cheese supplemented with tuna out of the tin and frozen peas boiled with the noodles. I loved ‘em both!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (+gA9j)

100 But the silly thing is that you can nod and agree that prices are nuts but they blame "boomers" and don't even care how it got this way.

Pointing out that paying people 15 bucks an hour drove prices up gets them angry and spitting. Saying that the Panic Lockdown stimulus payments and endless unemployment drove inflation through the roof gets them furious or dismissive. Noting that all the gasoline and delivery regulations in the past caused prices to all go up, they don't want to hear it, ITS BOOMERS. BOOMERS (meaning anyone older than me) DID IT ALL!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (5yqx7)

101 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.

Do you know a mob of kangaroos?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (guGkK)

102 Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP
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Fucking fascists. They started it all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

103 I was invited to the home of Cambodian immigrants; the father had a very labor-intensive job, the kids were working hard in school. The mother cooked on a very low budget. The food was great.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (6wpGE)

104 Our favorite batch meals are things like shepherd's pie, tater tot casserole, beef stroganoff,. basically anything that has meat (usually ground beef), taters, vegetables and often, cheese. Makes great leftovers, and is very satisfying.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (0aYVJ)

105 ====

Not everything is Weird Al, lady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP

LOL... One of my favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (FtULh)

106 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

My guess is the clothes are so sheer, the silhouette of the body can be seen through them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (ndZc7)

107 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
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Hoard mind.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (Fi81e)

108 102 Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP
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Fucking fascists. They started it all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

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I blame Dante, to be honest.

Stupid, plotless series of interviews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (46HP8)

109 My brothers step son and step son's wife fit this profile, only I think they are a bit older than zillenials. Actually I don't know if they do the door dash. But they don't work. Not close with brother and wouldn't bring up the topic if I was cuz I'm old curmudgeon about it. But when we both staying at sis's for my dad's memorial a year+ ago, brother said "wife gets too anxious home alone so only wants step son to try to get work from home job". They both got jobs phoning people or taking calls for something or other, but got fired for not doing the calls.

I cant fathom it. Bro's wife keeps helping them out, but she is not from uber money and my family is not from money, bro makes decent money but there is no pot of money for a trust fund for these two spoiled adults. I think they are going to hit 50-55 and be in a world of hurt. But not my circus.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (PV+Zw)

110 I'm surprised we even have DoorDash, even here in Canada.

When I taught in South Korea, the restaurants would deliver meals in real dishes and pick them up an hour later on those little scooters....for free. We had that at the school a few times and I couldn't have been more impressed if the food was teleported there.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (Sco7b)

111
Grad school: earing soup right out of the can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (HdYcL)

112 Fucking fascists. They started it all.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

Left in Latin is sinister. So... more oligarchal republic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

113 105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP

LOL... One of my favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (FtULh)

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What can I say?

I'm White and Nerdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (46HP8)

114 Grad school: earing soup right out of the can.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (HdYcL)

Velveeta shells and cheese. Toss in a boullion cube if you are feeling Ritzy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

115 The right approach is using Walmart Plus with their InHome addon, I get free deliveries without needing to tip as long as Im fine with next day delivery

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Yeah, it's the same local delivery as same-day, but comes next day and there's no option to tip, or expectation to. I hope they keep doing it this way, but more people will eventually catch on and they could change it.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (yFLFB)

116 Wasn't it here that we discussed the underbelly of food delivery services that takes advantage of the illegals and other people who do the driving? Like, the people who "own" the DoorDash franchise for a particular area lease out their ID or whatever to several drivers, but they're the ones actually making money. Then they pay the drivers pennies.

So something to that effect?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (jehhT)

117 Loaf of bread: $4

Half pound of ham: $3

Quarter pound of cheese: $2

So for $9 you can have 3 lunches. Throw in a jar of mustard or mayo for flavor.

Or...you can pay $27 for one lunch from door dash.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

118 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

Gauche is French for "nye kulturniy", or however the Russkies spell it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (8zz6B)

119 Since I like sharing Canadian prices with all of you, 18 extra large eggs....slightly under $7 Can.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b)

120 most online recipes I have tried need... work. SOme of the measurements are nuts, some of the techniques are wrong, and all of them have 7 pages of pointless crap about the Spanish inquisition and the history of mangos before you get to the recipe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (5yqx7)

121 The outline of the outfit was very unique, and a bit tacky.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

122 117 Loaf of bread: $4

Half pound of ham: $3

Quarter pound of cheese: $2

So for $9 you can have 3 lunches. Throw in a jar of mustard or mayo for flavor.

Or...you can pay $27 for one lunch from door dash.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

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Save up for a bread maker, then start making your own bread.

Or go all sourdough nut, like me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (46HP8)

123
"a silhouette of clothes"?

That needs fixing.

So do "Ameican" and "students," but whatever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (n7rxJ)

124 Oh damn, I just saw the sidebar news on Tulsi. God bless her husband, and thank you, Tulsi, for your service to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (R9CQE)

125 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

------------

Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (BcFIZ)

126 Can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

127 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM


It's ridiculously expensive. Our previous neighbors kid used to get door dash and they would sometimes bring it to my door by mistake. One of them was $18.00 for a burger king whopper value meal on wednesday that only costs $5.99 if you go and buy it at the store. The kicker is the local burger king is less than a five minute drive from our house.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (0N4FZ)

128 You can substitute shape for outline in my 121 as well.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Wmg4n)

129 Chili. (Not including Carrot, mind you) is easy to make and nutritious.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (wzze2)
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Chili never includes carrots.

If you do add carrots, it a catalyzes into NOT chili. Add some ditalini, because you just made Pasta Fudgeoli.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)

130 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons, but that’s not stepping “leftists” for advocating to deny poor people access to pre cooked meals and things like rotisserie chicken. They cannot ever imagine a better world! It’s incredible

Laziness is a reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Riz8t)

131 126 Can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

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Or tin?

Of sardines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (46HP8)

132 most online recipes I have tried need... work. SOme of the measurements are nuts, some of the techniques are wrong, and all of them have 7 pages of pointless crap about the Spanish inquisition and the history of mangos before you get to the recipe
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (5yqx7)
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Yeah, I tend to avoid those...

I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (gnNyN)

133 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: MacNCheese and canned chili at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (utTlv)

134 Gauche is how the nouveau riche dress

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (guGkK)

135 126 Can?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

Can(adian)?

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)

136 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

137 It's not that they don't want to cook, it's that to cook they want to make hand movements that are eerily similar to ordering things be delivered by typing, or using voice commands. It's like writing by hand. I don't even like doing that anymore though I do when taking short notes or whatnot (like during oral argument or at deposition). But I do make food by hand movements that do not resemble typing.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (W5mpo)

138
What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

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It's bad writing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (n7rxJ)

139 I thought we were talking about eggs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (zZu0s)

140 one of the oddest twists is the elitist dismissal of anything people suggest that is simpler and cheaper to make. YOU EXPECT MEEEEE TO EAT THAAAT??? like Marine Antoinette given a hamburger. Its an outage to even suggest it!!

Partly I think that this is the result of people who watch cooking videos and restaurant critiques all day. They become conditioned to think that anything less than Wagyu is something scraped off a Dehli boot. They don't know how to cook but they have learned all the language of cooking and can dismiss things they deem inferior as if they understand cooking, flavor, and value.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (5yqx7)

141 127 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM


It's ridiculously expensive. Our previous neighbors kid used to get door dash and they would sometimes bring it to my door by mistake. One of them was $18.00 for a burger king whopper value meal on wednesday that only costs $5.99 if you go and buy it at the store. The kicker is the local burger king is less than a five minute drive from our house

That burger is ass when it's fresh. No way that travels well waiting door dash to get it to you

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (HcoTw)

142 "Did you catch that? This delicate lily says that he can't cook the luxe meals he sees being advertised on TikTok and YouTube by food 'creators.'"

Ace, if you're talking about Deva Hazarika, he's actually on our side of this issue. Look at his feed. Among other things, he posted this:

"Getting people to cook delicious and healthy meals for $5 instead of DoorDashing lukewarm slop for $20 is a tough challenge, but I’ll make it happen."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

143 Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many:
-To cook each cuisine requires different base set of spices, staples, etc
-Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients
-Purchasing exact item amts often not possible
-Utilizing rest of perishable food challenging

Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.

Here's an idea. Turn off the f***ing phone, and get yourself a cookbook from 30 years ago. They're everywhere.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Riz8t)

144 Velveeta shells and cheese. Toss in a boullion cube if you are feeling Ritzy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

Well look at you all I had bullion cubes.
We used dirt for that little extra.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (594J6)

145
I make a big pot of soup that we have for lunch during the week. Soup is 1) flavorful, 2) nutritious, 3) easy to prepare and 4) can scarcely be screwed up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (HdYcL)

146

Oh no,

I have to cook for the family???

Oh the horror. It really cuts into my time posting my stupid opinions on the internet.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (3ek7K)

147 The lefties say "(enormously obese with type II diabetes) poor people can't afford to eat."
———

The online health “expert” advice is just complete bullshit. They go into these long convoluted explanations why it is NOT a choice to be Obese.

But strangely enough in the same breath, you CAN choose to lose the excess fat, the weight you already have.

So which is it?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (wzze2)

148 Top ramen...Under a buck

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (FtULh)

149 Oh and we need to get schools back to giving home ec classes.

Before you turn 18 you should be able to:

Make pasta
Bake a chicken breast
Grill a burger

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

150 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: MacNCheese and canned chili at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (utTlv)

UNDERWOOD CHICKEN SPREAD.

Accept no substitutes. Mmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (zZu0s)

151 138
What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

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It's bad writing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (n7rxJ)

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Well, the point of the test isn't the recognize poetry but to challenge the reader in terms of sentence structure and vocabulary (and probably pronunciation).

A similar effect could be had by getting them to read Jabberwocky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (46HP8)

152 135 126 Can?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

Can(adian)?
Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)

119 Since I like sharing Canadian prices with all of you, 18 extra large eggs....slightly under $7 Can.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b)

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (6wpGE)

153 Gauche is how the nouveau riche dress
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (guGkK)
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Who is the Gauche, amigo?
Why is he standing in your red leather poncho
With the studs that match your eyes?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

154 I’ve always thought gauche was a combination of gaudy and in poor taste…

Yeah, a silhouette of clothes is a strange formulation. Usually one looks at the clothes themselves not the shadow they create

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (yz/88)

155 Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"
==
Don't worry. The dragon's tail only sweeps a third of the stars from the sky.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (anL5R)

156 I'm 63 with bad knees, diabetes and bad kidneys. I work full time have a husband who does nothing so I'm responsible for everything. I don't want to cook, but I've never done DoorDash or Uber Eats.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (BCuCF)

157 "Tacky" . I really enjoy Weird Al Yankovic but I had never heard that particular song. Thanks, James Madison.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (n3VHW)

158 I have this great book from the early 70's, a Penguin paperback called Cooking in a Bedsitter which was for those English who lived in essentially studios with a bathroom down the hall and could cook over a gas-ring.

Mom got me the Fannie Farmer Cookbook when I was a freshman in HS so I had something other than her Betty Crocker book to cook from.

For those who can't seem to figure out how to cook, then there are all sorts of premade meals in pouches that just need to be microwaved. It is like colorful MREs, but with flavor.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

159 Can(adian)?
Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)
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CAN help you relieve the burden you are on the people who know you.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)

160 Had a horrible day
The weekend is here, to early to start drinking?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0)

161 Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients

What the hell? I can make a half dozen dishes with nothing more "exotic" then...Montreal Steak Seasoning.

Salt and pepper themselves alone will make most things edible.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

162 Gauche is a cowboy from Argentina, right?

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (CNl8/)

163 …and they rage at you for wanting them to eat "poverty food"

Yeah, I don’t get the “poverty food” put-down. Every time I’ve seen something denigrated as poverty food, it’s good food. It’s a nice soup, or a nice sandwich, inexpensive, easy to make, and likely tasty.

And then people explaining in more detail how to make something very good get hit for using technical terms like salt, pepper, onion, and garlic if they dare abbreviate it after the first use.

It reminds me a lot about the saying about politicians, that they have to act like they don’t know the obvious.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (EXyHK)

164 I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.


This boomer will not listen to a word from Gen Z or millennials about how hard it is to buy a house or how hard it is to live.

No shit captain obvious. Not when you are giving it away.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (2PamV)

165 I also got tired of making and eating simple meals when I was young. I solved that problem by (stick with me here)...learning to cook. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.

Now that I'm 29, and my kids are grown, I indulge myself and prepare some pretty complicated meals because I WANT TO AND I CAN.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

166 But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).

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We should just eat these people. It would be an actual contribution to society

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (THY4u)

167 Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"
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Don't worry. The dragon's tail only sweeps a third of the stars from the sky.
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won't happen til after we get 51 states. then after we lose 17.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (anL5R)

168 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)

169 Mom got me the Fannie Farmer Cookbook when I was a freshman in HS so I had something other than her Betty Crocker book to cook from.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)
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We had Fanny Farmer in my house when I was growing up.

"The Joy of Cooking" is also EXCELLENT. It's really all you need for cooking everything from hard-boiled eggs to beef wellington.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (gnNyN)

170 Gen X here. Been eating Mega Fit Meals for years now. Pre made and shipped to me every Wednesday. Protien, Fats, Carbs dialed in. My menu is $330 a week. Lazy? I don't give a shit. I'm not fat, it's healthy food and I have more time or am usually working 7 days a week and long hours at a refinery. Keep myself I a bit of a coloric deficit and when I need more cals I have restaurants I go to and it's usually a healthy meal.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (IlL6s)

171 Before you turn 18 you should be able to:

Make pasta
Bake a chicken breast
Grill a burger
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

Cooking meat, especially beef, always caused me problems. I'm red/green colorblind, so telling when beef is ready was always a problem - I couldn't tell the red and brown apart.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (qx7Zg)

172 I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Shrimp, avocado slice, slice of red pepper, black olives, sliced mushroom, powered onion, ginger, black pepper, and butter. Toss in pan over low heat for 3 minutes. Pour into bowl. Toss pan into trash and order a new one on Amazon.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (W5mpo)

173 For fuck's sake, there are a gazillion cookbooks for beginners out there, you don't need obscure or expensive anything, and this bullshit about not begin able to get foods in exact specific amounts THAT'S WHAT MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS ARE FOR, ASSHOLE!!!!

Posted by: They really are useless eaters at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

174 Yeah, I tend to avoid those...

I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.

You can't go wrong with Cowboy Kent Rollins. Every recipe of his that I've tried has gone straight to my favorite for that thing. Of course if he ever made avocado toast, it would probably be for his dogs.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (vTZFs)

175 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.

Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (/ZkOF)

176 Gen Z is illiterate, but they make up for it in Cultural Marxism Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)

177 Canadian dollars. Yeah. Sorry.

See diversity DOES suck.
Back to work.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (Sco7b)

178 Shortly after D Day, General Eisenhower made it over to France, just to see how things were going. He had his driver, a Sergeant, frequently whip up something for both to eat including egg sandwiches. (using a small stove issued to a lot of troops). I guess the Door dash young uns have more important things to do other than invading Europe.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (gm9Sb)

179 165
Now that I'm 29, and my kids are grown, I indulge myself and prepare some pretty complicated meals because I WANT TO AND I CAN.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

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I hate cooking for myself. Like...I hate it. It's a me issue because I eat too fast, and if I spend 2 minutes eating something I took an hour to make, then it's a waste of time.

However, cooking for the family is fine. I don't mind spending time to prep those meals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (46HP8)

180 82 Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

Your wife would have to cook by necessity. Have you hit eight yet? I have 8 kids in the pool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

Just 5 so far...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (53oGX)

181 "The Joy of Cooking" is also EXCELLENT. It's really all you need for cooking everything from hard-boiled eggs to beef wellington.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (gnNyN)


I still use that

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (FtULh)

182 That burger is ass when it's fresh. No way that travels well waiting door dash to get it to you

Yeah most food doesn't deliver well; the classics do and that's why they are classic: Chinese, Pizza. You order a steak and potatoes and you're gonna get Hungry Man by the time it reaches you.

And the costs are bad because not only does the delivery service charge the restaurant for the privilege of delivering their food, but they add service and delivery fees on top AND the restaurants push the price up to make up for the cost from the delivery service. Its a good 30% or more higher on Doordash than going there and picking it up. And on top of that, all these services have been busted raising prices on the foods without the restaurants telling them to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5yqx7)

183 Because of course she will! She's entitled to a seat in Congress!

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will run in a majority-minority (black) district in Florida, after her district was gerrymandered into majority Republican by the raycisss Governor!

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5rh/l)

184 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver


Arrrrrr! Matey!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (2PamV)

185 Wasn't it here that we discussed the underbelly of food delivery services that takes advantage of the illegals and other people who do the driving? Like, the people who "own" the DoorDash franchise for a particular area lease out their ID or whatever to several drivers, but they're the ones actually making money. Then they pay the drivers pennies.

So something to that effect?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (jehhT)

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Yeah, that was a Buck Throckmorton post a couple months ago.

I heard a Houston conservative radio talk show host (Michael Barry) reporting a news item that riding a moped in blue shithole cities -- presumably delivering food -- like NYC in the age of Trump & ICE has come to be rare and seen as akin to walking around with face stats, an indicator that you're likely an illegal alien and will be detained.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (BcFIZ)

186 Remember folks, the kids we see are the kids we either know or are shown. Judge by the ones you know, because the folks doing the showing are trying to sell you on something.

Translation: Are some bad? Duh, yes. All of them? Thank God, no. The percentages? Ah...now that's the question...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (OUMaO)

187 I would eat nothing instead of door dash

I've seen the public

I do NOT want them handling my food

Door dash drivers are usually kids anyway and they want huge tips or they wreck your shit.

Fuck em

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (ZTMit)

188 "Fit is how a piece of clothing fits your body, while silhouette is the overall shape that your outfit takes."

yeah, it didn't make sense to me either. But this is what some reddit comment said.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (vbXSk)

189 Got myself a pit boss pellet smoker. Ribs, pulled pork. So easy. Lots of YouTube how to's out there

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (HcoTw)

190 I'll give peeps a pass on "gawch". When I was 8, I thought a certain word was pronounced "fakade".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (W5mpo)

191 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)
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Mexican Americans love education
So they go to night school—
And they take Spanish
And get a B!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

192 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.
Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (/ZkOF)
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By sheer coincidence, reading those authors is also likely to increase one's vocabulary...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (gnNyN)

193 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.
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That account is trolling . . .

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (anL5R)

194 Isn't all DoorDash food cold as ice by the time it gets to your door? Can it all be successfully (?) microwaved?

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (5rh/l)

195 I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it.

I've never used any delivery service save for pizza back in the days before DoorDash...Hey, I was young, drunk, and wanted pizza. To this day I *still* don't know how large a tip I gave the guy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

196 You don't even need to be able to cook. Every supermarket and even small delis have aisles full of pre-cooked foods. All you have to do it heat it.

And it's good stuff. As cook as fresh made? No. But as good as -- and probably better -- than DD gruel and even most restaurants.

Cost? Maybe 30% of the cost of delivery or eat-in.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

197 Eggs expensive? Here our local Eshes' closeout supermarket had a sale a few weeks ago: 18 *dozen* eggs for $6. (USD, that's what, like $300 AUD?)

'course, come to think of it, they didn't exactly specify what species the eggs came from...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (JcF+m)

198 I've done several recipes from The Deplorable Gourmet, but none recently, because it's packed in one of my numerous boxes of books from the move.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (0aYVJ)

199 Here’s the thing; there are cookbooks!
So very many cookbooks!
Ones like “How to Cook Everything “ and “Five Ingredient Dinners.” Heck, I picked up a mug cookbook for $1 at the used bookstore. You can do so much with eggs + a few other ingredients!

There’s blame to go around. If the kids grew up on takeout because both parents were working and was never taught, for example. This is learned behavior, our culture had sold them on the need for exotic cuisine delivered to them. We need to do better!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (4KUe5)

200 196 You don't even need to be able to cook. Every supermarket and even small delis have aisles full of pre-cooked foods. All you have to do it heat it.

And it's good stuff. As cook as fresh made? No. But as good as -- and probably better -- than DD gruel and even most restaurants.

Cost? Maybe 30% of the cost of delivery or eat-in.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

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Buy a hot plate and an air fryer.

Burgers and fries. Easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (46HP8)

201 200

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (6wpGE)

202 Cooking meat, especially beef, always caused me problems. I'm red/green colorblind, so telling when beef is ready was always a problem - I couldn't tell the red and brown apart.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (qx7Zg)

Meat thermometer.

Posted by: Seriously, get one at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (TbWk/)

203 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it. Yeah everyone is tired after a day of work: EVERYONE. That's part of being a human being, we have finite energy. But you can afford to spend a few billijoules of that to boil some water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (5yqx7)

204 > So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either.

Someone needs to point these mooks at the Fannie Farmer cookbook (which we called the "Funny Farmer" cookbook), which was written before most households even had electricity, much less YouTube.

Me, I was preparing meals for myself and four younger siblings by the time I was 12 (Mom worked a lot of swing and graveyard shifts... we needed the extra money).

No sympathy whatsoever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (IG3/x)

205 My kinda-daughter learned that one of those delivery services does not consider itself at fault if they deliver your fully-paid-for meal to the wrong house.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)

206 Last time I was in Europe there were endless immigrants on mopeds delivering take out food.

No idea how euro-niks afford it since they generally make about half what Americans do

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

207 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.
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sentence structure at the time was way more complex

its like they learned how to write and speak by reading St. Paul's epistles.

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (anL5R)

208 194 Isn't all DoorDash food cold as ice by the time it gets to your door? Can it all be successfully (?) microwaved?
Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM

No, they have insulated bags for warm and for cold.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (Wmg4n)

209 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

"Silhouette" is simply the wrong word. Pretentious, over-wrought writing. Suit of clothes, or "ensemble" if you want to be pretentious but still readable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (8zz6B)

210 Find the time to cook dumbass.

Pause your "content creating" for little while and engage in the most basic human need there is, nourishment.

Oh sorry too many big words

Wtf

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (ZTMit)

211 I can't even remember the last time I got a fast food hamburger. I make burgers on the George Foreman grill and french fries in the air fryer.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (CNl8/)

212 Yeah meat thermometer is a must have when you are cooking.

Up there with a good pan and a glass baking dish.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

213 I've done several recipes from The Deplorable Gourmet

I have as well and its been great so far. Some of them I can't eat but they look very tasty

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (5yqx7)

214 Save up for a bread maker, then start making your own bread.

Or go all sourdough nut, like me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (46HP

Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (53oGX)

215 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (5yqx7)
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I made baconaise off an internet recipe.

It's never been easier to find recipes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

216
No idea how euro-niks afford it since they generally make about half what Americans do

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

____________

The portions are probably half the size.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (HdYcL)

217 I've never door dashed, etc. People working in food establishments, whatever level of cleanliness and competence they may innately have, are policed for hygienic standards, or so I choose to delude myself.

Hippie side-giggers?

*shudders*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (/Aq4A)

218 Because of course she will! She's entitled to a seat in Congress!

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will run in a majority-minority (black) district in Florida, after her district was gerrymandered into majority Republican by the raycisss Governor!

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5rh/l)

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OUT: Abortion Barbie.
IN: Abortion Shaquisha.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (BcFIZ)

219
Social media is responsible for a lot of stupid stuff.

Oh look, people making complicated recipes and I have to do the same.

What you need is a meat, starch, and a vegetable.

It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (3ek7K)

220 214 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (53oGX)

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Hardcore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (46HP8)

221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

222 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (0aYVJ)

223 Oh, FFS.

I occasionally order from DoorDash. Occasionally.

Two of three weeks, I eat at my brother's or my parents' for Shabbos. The third week is my turn.

On Wednesdays, we go to a restaurant for trivia night, and eat there.

Most weeks, we work full time jobs, tend the garden, work the lawns, clean the house, and find time to cook a delicious fresh dinner for our family 5-6 days a week.

Get a life, all of you. Seriously. If you can't be bothered to cook and feed yourself or your family, why even bother? Can DoorDash deliver you a gun to eat? At least a Hi-Point or something?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

224 Only interaction I've had with Door Dash or Uber Eats is girlfriends sending me food. Last Door Dash a girl got me a four pack of Crumbl Cookies(chocolate chip) was for Valentines Day this year.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (IlL6s)

225 > 'course, come to think of it, they didn't exactly specify what species the eggs came from...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (JcF+m)


It's $8.99 for a pound of ground beef, but only $3.99 for a pound of ground meat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (IG3/x)

226 I pride myself on making hard boiled eggs. Keep them around for snacks or when I have to take pills and just not hungry. Water to a boil, add eggs, bring to a boil again and cook for ten minutes. Rinse with cold tap water until you can handle them. Into the fridge. You can peel, usually, with only two big pieces of shell coming off.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (gm9Sb)

227 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

"Silhouette" is simply the wrong word. Pretentious, over-wrought writing. Suit of clothes, or "ensemble" if you want to be pretentious but still readable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (8zz6B)
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Hey, leave me my semi-visuals.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

228 As a non-English major, I would say that "gauche" should be replaced with "garish". Clothes that were unsophisticated (what "gauche" means) wouldn't seem extraordinary.

Also, I think Deva Hazarika's tweet was about the reasons he's seen about why people feel overwhelmed by the idea of cooking all their meals. Based on remarks I've seen on X, it seems like Granny Millennial and her co-whiners can't figure out that you don't have to make everything from scratch. I mentioned to a kid that you can drain and heat a can of green beans in a pan with bacon grease - and wow! his mind was blown when he tried it.

My mother's dinners consisted of a meat, a cooked vegetable (preferably starchy), and a raw salad. She could can vegetables and make applesauce, made three kinds of pickles, and baked desserts from scratch.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (fxCK2)

229 I believe the correct term for those UK DoorDashers is “deliveroos .”

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (4KUe5)

230 Ace, if you're talking about Deva Hazarika, he's actually on our side of this issue. Look at his feed. Among other things, he posted this:

"Getting people to cook delicious and healthy meals for $5 instead of DoorDashing lukewarm slop for $20 is a tough challenge, but I’ll make it happen."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

Unless he made another post in which he refuted the "objections" he listed he's still being absurd.

You can get a decent selection of spices for the cost of one doordash order. More than you'll probably use for years for two orders.

Ingredients can be easily substituted for others.

Exact amounts aren't needed outside of baking, having a bit less of one thing or a bit more of another is fine.

Using remainder of perishable food is the easiest cooking, leftovers get thrown into pasta, put on top of rice, or inside sandwiches.

Posted by: Sjg at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (i8HNq)

231 There’s blame to go around. If the kids grew up on takeout because both parents were working and was never taught, for example. This is learned behavior, our culture had sold them on the need for exotic cuisine delivered to them. We need to do better!

I couldn't cook toast when I was in HS. I learned a few (very) basics in college. After that, I learned more because who wants to eat the same thing all the time. It can be done! We have the technology! I'm not giving anyone a pass because they're too lazy to learn something which isn't that hard to do.

BTW, it was nice to see that Taylor Lorenz is still identifying as a yute by using lingo which probably very few of them do. Spooners? Really?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

232
Gauche is a cowboy from Argentina, right?
Posted by: Mark1971

Yeah, and they can take down a steer with a yo yo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Cqx++)

233 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (0aYVJ)
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God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)

234 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't"

Civilizations come and go. Next up, a variant of Europe, 535 AD...

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)

235 > Hippie side-giggers?

*shudders*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (/Aq4A)

Most places put the food in bags with tamper-resistant tape closures before handing them over to said hippies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (IG3/x)

236 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it. Yeah everyone is tired after a day of work: EVERYONE. That's part of being a human being, we have finite energy. But you can afford to spend a few billijoules of that to boil some water.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Yep. There's these channels that show how to ( I hate the term ) 'meal-prep' for a week. Aside from investing in 500 plastic boxes, it's just 3 or 4 hours on a Sunday to fill a refrig for the week.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (diia5)

237 233 God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)

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Is it really a bar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (46HP8)

238 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Just tune into the next celebrity event show.

Its funny, I remember they used to dress that way in fantasy art though I notice now D&D has gone woke so...no more elven wizardess in diaphanous robes, no you get a couple of dwarf guys dancing together while a beholder looks on gleefuilly.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

239 It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.

My favorite is when they cook something or buy something then react to it. Its like watching someone read a book, how does it taste? Like pixels? how do I know I'll like it because this random dude does? How do I know he's telling me the truth? What if they just screwed up the order last time? What if you just are having a bad day and nothing tastes great?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (5yqx7)

240 Only interaction I've had with Door Dash or Uber Eats is girlfriends sending me food. Last Door Dash a girl got me a four pack of Crumbl Cookies(chocolate chip) was for Valentines Day this year.
Posted by: JROD

that probably cost $35-40.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (GUycr)

241 234 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't"

Civilizations come and go. Next up, a variant of Europe, 535 AD...

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)

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Europe survived the Black Plague.

It can probably survive young adults not knowing how to cook for themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (46HP8)

242
It's as cold as ice.
They're willing to sacrifice
Your food.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (Fi81e)

243 Spooners? Really?"

Ya. The 'rents gotta cover the za, k?

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (XuXeR)

244 I was door-dash-adjacent as a younger man: delivery driver for Pizza Hut, and later, Stagecoach Pizza (a local joint). Pretty good gig for a college student with a family. Made more money than the cooks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (0aYVJ)

245 My 21 year-old daughter makes a spaghetti sauce that's so good it'll poke your eyes out. Her first omelet was perfect because she watched a U-toob video on how to make one.

She's can make quite a few dishes and is a very good cook. I'm not worried.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (k9OZB)

246 Wow. "Cold as Ice" is nearly a haiku.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (Fi81e)

247 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...
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You are not wrong. The amount of TWEE bullshit on blogger recipes is not to be stomached. Use youtube. Search your desired recipe. When the video thumbs come up look for the chick with the big hooters. Problem solved. You're Welcome.

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (anL5R)

248 Most places put the food in bags with tamper-resistant tape closures before handing them over to said hippies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (IG3/x)

Which they are handling with their ecoli covered booger hooks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (/Aq4A)

249 35 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)
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I know this is probably just an AoS inside joke but even sous vide is dead-nuts simple, and in fact simplifies or idiot-proofs a lot of food. Yes you need to invest in a circulator but they're not really expensive.

Dropping some chicken breast in a SV at 150F for 3-4 hours will give you the best, most juicy chicken breast you'll ever have, and you can just drop it and forget it.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (oqH4h)

250 She's can make quite a few dishes and is a very good cook. I'm not worried.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (k9OZB)


Both my kids were taught to cook as kids and their kids do the same...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (FtULh)

251 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

We have ENDLESS access to simple, delicious recipes via YouTube and other social media platforms. Stuff any culinary n00b can make if they simply pay attention to the directions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

Sous Vide is absolutely trivial if you purchase the tech. I got a stick that clamps to the edge of a deep soup pot. Plug it in, fill the pot with water, put the meat plus sauce in a ziploc bag and squeeze out the air by dunking below the water to burp air out. Seal the bag, put something heavy on it to submerge and go away. It doesn't burn and if you are late showing up it doesn't matter. Take out the cooked meat, cut it up or sear it if you like and done.

The wand was about 100 dollars 15 years ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (8avO+)

252 Europe survived the Black Plague."

Europe did. Several million....didn't.

Ah well. Elons offspring will be on Mars

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (XuXeR)

253 I find it interesting how many of Edgar allen poe's stories start off with some sort of latin or French header in front of the chapter. and he's not alone, either. Even Agatha Christie, a hundred years later, freely sprinkled French in her writings because everyone could understand it.

Now? The Cat in the Hat style rhyming is "high class." Which don't get me wrong, that book is a masterpiece in "use only these few words" and it works. But it's not supposed to be the highlight of your reading and writing career!

Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (/ZkOF)

254 I only use the Deplorable Gourmet cookbook. Where else can you get 500 salsa recipes!

I actually do pursue the cookbook once in a while before I go grocery shopping.

Mom cookbook for the ranch hands as a girl. So most of our family meals were hardly and delicious. We rug rats started learning to cook with mom from an early age.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (1fx5i)

255 A couple other links show "silhouette" of clothes is apparently a common phrase in fashion.

"Types of Silhouettes in Fashion | 12 Different Types of Fashion Silhouettes Explained - Disha Foundation
In the world of fashion design, the term “silhouette” refers to the shape or overall outline of a garment. The shape or silhouette is basically a garment’s two-dimensional outline or configuration."

"A Beginner’s Guide to Fashion Silhouettes
1. What Is a Fashion Silhouette? A silhouette refers to the overall shape or outline of a garment when viewed from a distance. It’s what people first notice about a piece - even before fabric, color, or trims."

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (vbXSk)

256 191 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)
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Mexican Americans love education
So they go to night school—
And they take Spanish
And get a B!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

I got A's in Spanish, even though I learned in HS...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

257 The wifey has a "Joy Of Cooking" cookbook.

Unlike "The Joy of Sex," I've never opened it ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (BcFIZ)

258 God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)

259 Another point in this - when I was young and didn't know how to cook things I couldn't just look it up on the internet.

It meant calling your parents which wasn't a bad thing...but it will take you way longer to get a recipe from your mother on a "quick call" then even a poorly written internet recipe that starts with "This recipe reminds me of the hills of Tuscany..."

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

260 My mom was her generation's "spooner".

And then she made dinner every night for us ungrateful kids.

But she sounded a lot like them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Fi81e)

261 Bring back Home Ec

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Hb+bW)

262 If you can afford to get food delivered, more power to you. We definitely eat out (we can walk to restaurants that serve real food), we definitely get delivery (but not fast food). I get the majority of our groceries delivered because I am very picky about brands and the types of food I want. But I am not crying the blues about not being able to do this or that at the same time. If I was not in the relationship I am in, and I had to do things on a tight budget, I absolutely could. I have in the past. I don’t have too and I am blessed for it, I don’t take it for granted. I definitely don’t feel as if I would be entitled to it on tax payer dimes. One thing missing is being able to budget and leave well within your means, wherever your means happen to be at the time.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Wmg4n)

263 The Coleman 520 “pocket stove”. (They had big pockets then, I guess)

Ernie Pyle wrote a column on them, they were very popular, since they meant hot chow, coffee, water for shaving, thawing feet out, etc. Coleman sent Ernie a nickel plated job with his name engraved on it.

Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

264 It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.
Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (3ek7K)
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You're right. I dunno if I would call them "liars" but it's lying by omission. When you're on social media you're AT BEST watching a highlight reel, and most of the time you're watching two-minute clips that someone spent six hours filming editing and posting.

These people don't understand that the internet isn't reality, just like the people that think that what Qatarlson and Cavernous Nostrils have to say reflects the opinions of normal conservatives. It's different planets.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (oqH4h)

265 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

Windmill.

Posted by: She's REALLY hardcore at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (TbWk/)

266 Want a meal that's easy, delicious, and a $1.50/plate.

Linguine Puttanesca.

I have about a thousand other ones you could do.

You can be flat-out poverty stricken in this country and eat better than 90% of the planet, for little effort.

But whatever. Spend all your money on garbage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

267
Stephen,

If there isn't a way to easily get to the recipe, fuck off.

I don't want to read your life history.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

268 I was never allowed in the kitchen when my mother cooked, but my grandma let me help her in the kitchen. She never used recipes, just used a pinch of this, or let's try this. It was magic to me. I love to cook and I look at recipes and then make them my own way. I have been told im a fabulous cook and I can tell people what's inside the recipe, but not any specific measurements.
That's why these lazy people make me sick. Its easy to make a tuna sandwich. I had three kids and a fulltime job and still managed dinner for everyone. Stupid lazy idiots.

Posted by: Megthered at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (0CgUq)

269 We love my door dash delivery guy! We live in his car with my homies and we get to sample a little bit of this, a little bit of that...man life is good! Plus we use his car as our toilet too!

Posted by: Joe Cockroach and Mary Bedbug at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (7d1L5)

270 Why are so many young people fat, lazy, stupid and broke? Eating shitty processed prepared foods via takeout.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (wBaIH)

271
Another thing I dislike about online recipes: scrolling through ad after ad after ad. Or popovers inviting me to subscribe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (HdYcL)

272 A couple other links show "silhouette" of clothes is apparently a common phrase in fashion.

————

I am beginning to think y’all just skip my posts. lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (Wmg4n)

273 We were po'college or new grads when we married. Had a '50's fridge with freezer space for metal ice cube trays in our 100yr old rental house. We shopped a couple of times a week for chicken or ground beef.

I was learning to cook and we somehow survived. I only cooked on top of the ancient gas stove burners due to previously blowing one up in college (not knowing to light a pilot light) on a date. Once deaf with singed hair and a hematoma on my right thigh was enough and my new husband respected my refusal. He also wanted to live past 24yrs.

When the two chimps arrived I made casseroles. Or chicken with fresh veg. No fast food for lunch or dinners. We survived. It was a treat to go to out to dinner once a month.

I kept learning to cook real meals, too. With more ingredients & difficulty. A real freezer helped. I worked with two women who refused to cook anything with more than 5 ingredients. They were dimwits in other areas as well.

Sometimes I had 2 part time jobs, kept our sons alive at the same time, & I don't want to hear how these spoiled brats with college debt order their fancy pants meals. I would also have to screen the person delivering if they were illgal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (WONhk)

274 Speaking of Colman stoves, I have one, some propane, a few jugs of water, and some Mountain Home emergency meals stashed away.

Yeah the odds of something knocking out power for a few days or low but its happened to me before and I'm not taking that risk again...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

275 272 I am beginning to think y’all just skip my posts. lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (Wmg4n)

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You've posted here before?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (46HP8)

276 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

My Dad did that. He had a small mill he used. Had different plates for grinding, and could grind coarse or fine flour. Made wheat flour (loved the hard red winter wheat for some reason) and corn flour...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

277 I have never had the need for DoorDash and
I don't trust them with my food, but I will have my pizza delivered.

Try to make sense out of that.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (NpAcC)

278 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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Yes it sucks but they all have to include a story about how the Tuscan sun perfectly tanned their fartclam because running a website like that is just a game of SEO and they have to have enough words on the screen for Google's crawlers to pick it up and also differentiate themselves so they show up on page 1.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (oqH4h)

279 The only time I ever got anything from Door Dash was by mistake.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (CNl8/)

280 Folks here forgetting the poverty stand by, the ramen noodle. Ate enough during bad times where I shouldn't like them, but still keep some around for a quick meal. Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

281 266 Want a meal that's easy, delicious, and a $1.50/plate.

Linguine Puttanesca.

I have about a thousand other ones you could do.

You can be flat-out poverty stricken in this country and eat better than 90% of the planet, for little effort.

But whatever. Spend all your money on garbage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)


I make a Chicken puttanesca that's easy and delicious

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (FtULh)

282 Buy a hot plate and an air fryer.

Burgers and fries. Easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM


You can cook a boat load of healthy good tasting food in an air fryer. We use ours 2-3 times a week for things like chicken, pork chops, meatballs, etc.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (0N4FZ)

283 > Which they are handling with their ecoli covered booger hooks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (/Aq4A)

You really think a DD driver has worse hygiene than the illiterate thug with the prison tatts and the ankle monitor working behind the counter at Burger King?

I'm... skeptical.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (IG3/x)

284 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

NutriMill Harvest Electric Stone Grain Mill
^ pop that into amazon or google.
I'm afraid to post a link incorrectly... got the barrel for that before.

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (53oGX)

285 Where's Piper? Haven't seen her posting in awhile. Hope she's okay.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (J4Dwc)

286 @240 Mr Asprin Factory-yeah it's not cheap plus I'm in the Bay Area California. Always Crumbl Cookies or Melos Pizza. Melo's Pizzas (sausage w/extra sauce) ain't cheap. The Valentines gal was a doctor from Reno. Not seeing her anymore. I need to find another for pizza n cookies. All this talk about food.....now I'm hungry. Thanks guys(lol)

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (IlL6s)

287 I saw the Ecoli-Covered Booger Hooks open for Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds at Fulford Arms in '22.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (BcFIZ)

288
Let's give Taylor Lorenz a break. Fire hadn't yet been discovered when she started out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (HdYcL)

289 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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Yes it sucks but they all have to include a story about how the Tuscan sun perfectly tanned their fartclam because running a website like that is just a game of SEO and they have to have enough words on the screen for Google's crawlers to pick it up and also differentiate themselves so they show up on page 1.

They're all the same. Pages of crap, and then an ingredients list, which is instantly identifiable because it's bulleted. Just scroll quickly to the ingredients list and Bob's your uncle.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (Riz8t)

290 The wifey has a "Joy Of Cooking" cookbook.

Unlike "The Joy of Sex," I've never opened it ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (BcFIZ)

You need a book for that? I thought it kind of sells itself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (/Aq4A)

291 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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I must just have a lot more luck finding recipe's than you do then.

But I agree, if I have to click to another page, that's clickbait. But 90+% of the time, I just scroll down to the bottom. If they have any pointers, I may scroll back up to check them out.

When I want to make something new to me, I usually get a cross section of recipes to get the gist and mix and match between them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)

292 I can't even remember the last time I got a fast food hamburger
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If you got e. Coli you would

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (E4WLu)

293 285 Where's Piper? Haven't seen her posting in awhile. Hope she's okay.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:32

😂

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (Wmg4n)

294 Let's give Taylor Lorenz a break. Fire hadn't yet been discovered when she started out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (HdYcL)
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"Door Dash" in those days meant hurrying back to the cave before you were devoured by a predator.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (gnNyN)

295 Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

I love the gasoline stoves because they put out so much heat, but I think a one-burner propane stove that screws on the one pound cylinders is a better deal. They are easier to use and easier to store.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

296 Why do we even take taylor (not even seriously)


Shes a splc product (first heard of her on charlottesvillle)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (bXbFr)

297
Have a crockpot?

It's easy to cook extra chicken breasts and freeze the rest for meals later.

Cook a roast. There are lots of ways you can use the leftovers to make other meals.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (3ek7K)

298 Pizza- flour, water, yeast, cheese

Or boil noodles and top with butter and pepper

Or eat an apple and yogurt

Or cereal

Or poptarts

Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.

What is wrong with these people!!??

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Hb+bW)

299 Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

You...understand all that? You must be a genius.

Posted by: Zoomer at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Riz8t)

300 "A Beginner’s Guide to Fashion Silhouettes
1. What Is a Fashion Silhouette? A silhouette refers to the overall shape or outline of a garment when viewed from a distance. It’s what people first notice about a piece - even before fabric, color, or trims."
Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (vbXSk)

So you are talking trade jargon here, not common language. If I asked you to go hang the gas trap in the shaker box, you would be at a loss, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (8zz6B)

301 290
You need a book for that? I thought it kind of sells itself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (/Aq4A)

========

Madonna wrote the book on it:

https://amzn.to/4a6TPUD

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (46HP8)

302 People think you're weird if you bring "Joy of Cooking" into the john.

Posted by: Graham Fapner at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (gKWVE)

303 We made our kids learn to cook and they always enjoy it. It helps to start them young. We didn't especially always enjoy their meals though, heh. But they can cook now.

They also had to do their own laundry starting in middle school.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (n5tGW)

304 That "silhouette of clothes" phrase is quite awkward and doesn't really make sense in the sentence. But I think I understand what is meant, however poorly expressed.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (FMtrg)

305 Kids are idiots. Film at 11.

Honestly, all children are fools, and don't learn to be intelligent until they have to. You were an idiot as well. Every generation thinks they invented sex, drugs, envy, and a whole host of other things, and don't know any better until they reach about 30 for the ladies and 40 for the men.

Real world consequences kick in and suddenly the kids' parents get plenty smart.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (DwqWV)

306 Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.

What is wrong with these people!!??

YOU EXPECT THEM TO EAT LIKE A PRISONER? THIS FOOD IS BENEATH THEIR DIGNITY! ITS AN INSULT!!!!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (5yqx7)

307 Yeah he’s right. Most or many online recipe pages are totally unreadable, particularly on a smartphone.

All sorts of popups and videos and scripts, an editorial, a history lesson, and the rest of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (E4WLu)

308 I've never doordashed. Or Uber-eated.

I've pretty much only had pizza delivered. And that was wayyyy back.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

309 Why do we even take taylor (not even seriously)

I think this article is nothing more than clickbait. She knows it's stupid and will enrage people, but since she has nothing interesting to say, it's the only way she can engage people and get eyeballs.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (Riz8t)

310 You really think a DD driver has worse hygiene than the illiterate thug with the prison tatts and the ankle monitor working behind the counter at Burger King?

I'm... skeptical.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (IG3/x)

There are some standards, however dubiously followed. As noted, it is an illusion that you are not eating off a toilet seat when somebody handles your food. So why double the contamination?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (/Aq4A)

311 I've argued we should replace EBT with food baskets of raw stuff like chicken and noodles.

Throw in an air fryer up to once a year. They are only $60 for a halfway decent one and smaller and easier to setup then a real stove but will give you 80% of the use...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

312 Just 5 so far...
Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (53oGX)

*holds on to claim ticket*

Thats not meant as a dig aside from gentle ribbing. Its great that you all can and do a big family.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

313 There's a word for people who are too tired to cook and can't afford to pay someone else to cook for them.

Hungry.

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (FhXTo)

314 Like zombies in raccoon city

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (bXbFr)

315 Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.
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TOP. RAMEN. is on it right now.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

316 So a judge dropped the human smuggling case against the" Maryland man"... So now what ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (FtULh)

317 > There are some standards, however dubiously followed.

Tell me you've never worked in a fast food kitchen without telling me you've never worked in a fast food kitchen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (IG3/x)

318 My Dad did that. He had a small mill he used. Had different plates for grinding, and could grind coarse or fine flour. Made wheat flour (loved the hard red winter wheat for some reason) and corn flour...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

Hard red wheat has a higher protein and gluten content which makes for a richer, higher rising bread. Soft white, on the other hand, makes good noodles and can be used for batters like pancakes since it has less gluten and can be handled rougher and still be tender.
One of the things that makes bread and such tough is that the gluten is not allowed to develop, and instead breaks and gets all tangled - this is at the molecular level by the way, you can feel it by the stretch and resistance as dough.

I tend to be obsessive about bread baking, but apparently your dad had me beat.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

319 There's a word for people who are too tired to cook and can't afford to pay someone else to cook for them.

Hungry.
Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (FhXTo)
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"Long pig".

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

320 Want to eat like a king for cheap and do it easily?

One word: Crockpot.

With a crockpot, a knife, a cutting board, a plate, and a spork, and you'll be shitting in high cotton - even if you live in a one-room apartment with a pisspot in the corner.

You'd think cooking was some kind of arcane science. Cavemen did it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (BI5O2)

321 Damn I must be getting old. Just read my comment. I remember when my only need of a woman was for sex. Now it's cookies n pizza.

The perfect woman; when you get done having sex, she turns into a pizza?

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (IlL6s)

322 295 Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

I love the gasoline stoves because they put out so much heat, but I think a one-burner propane stove that screws on the one pound cylinders is a better deal. They are easier to use and easier to store.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

I have my dad's old Coleman stove that he purchased sometime in the early 1950's. I replaced the old leather seals with new rubber ones, but other than that, it is original, and works beautifully. I sometimes use to for canning out on the deck so I don't heat the whole house up. And it travels very well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (DwqWV)

323 Theme for our times: Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (reMys)

324
I get that it is good to try different recipes. I love the food thread on Sundays, thank you Dildo.

Every day meals don't have to be complicated.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (3ek7K)

325 The perfect woman; when you get done having sex, she turns into a pizza?
Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (IlL6s)

Chris Rock: Feed me, fuck me, and shut the hell up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (DwqWV)

326 I actually don't care what they do with their own money, they can make their own good or bad decisions.

But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

327 Folks here forgetting the poverty stand by, the ramen noodle. Ate enough during bad times where I shouldn't like them, but still keep some around for a quick meal. Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

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Wifey makes Ramen and ditches the flavor pack in lieu of some legit Japanese pork bone broth sauce packets that she buys online.

I can't read the packets because they're all in Japanese!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (BcFIZ)

328 They cant heat a can of campbell soup

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (bXbFr)

329 I bought a Joy of Cooking for the boy when he moved out. He then asked for the recipes for a lot of stuff I cooked when he lived at home. On one of the old recipes my mom sent me, she annotated that it was easy enough that DH could do it. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (DwqWV)

330 How about "The silhouette of her clothes was extraordinary but gauche" or "She wore clothes with an extraordinary but gauche silhouette"?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (FMtrg)

331 There are some standards, however dubiously followed. As noted, it is an illusion that you are not eating off a toilet seat when somebody handles your food. So why double the contamination?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Door dash food is sealed at the restaurant, the driver does not handle it anymore than your pizza guy would. It’s really not as scary as all this, I promise.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Wmg4n)

332 An entire generation of burnt out narcissists raised by TikTok who think the world owes them something - a car, a house, Jeff Bezos's money.
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In general, atheism has no new, snazzy work-smarter-not-harder solution for this.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

333 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Also that they text, but briefly; and regard terminal punctuation as "aggressive." And they don't react to texts unless they are a question or something that requires a reaction on their part.

We're being deliberately siloed and atomized.

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:41 PM (reMys)

334 The judge found that the Department of Justice (DOJ) likely would not have pursued the case if Abrego García hadn't won his previous lawsuit against the government.

Well, duh. If he was sent home they wouldn't have to try to sent him home.

Trump should not have brought him back. And he should instruct ICE to immediately fly him to Uganda. Let the judge pay to bring him back...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

335 Door dash food is sealed at the restaurant, the driver does not handle it anymore than your pizza guy would. It’s really not as scary as all this, I promise.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Wmg4n)

None of it's scary. It's gross, whether you add the DD booger hook nasties or not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (/Aq4A)

336 As soon as I got my own place, with my own kitchen, I resolved to learn how to cook. Saves money and I enjoy it. 25+ years later, I'm a halfway decent cook and no, it doesn't take that much time. Crock pots are your friend. You can make a weeks worth of food in it and all you have to do is heat it up. These miserable halfwits are just lazy and entitled. May their suffering continue.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (sAmhv)

337 >> I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:48 PM

"Learned optimism" is literally the cure for learned helplessness. The name is not a coincidence; that is what it was designed to address.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
amazon.com/dp/1400078393

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (Sy6m/)

338 The one item that it is far preferable to buy than make is onion rings. Sure, you can do it cheaply, but if you are making some, you might as well make about ten pounds of them.

I haven't made tamales at home, but I bet they are similar.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

339 Idiot wind
Blowing through the dust upon our shelves
We're idiots babe
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (nbLIj)

340 NutriMill Harvest Electric Stone Grain Mill

That looks nice. So far I’ve been either using a blender, followed by using a coffee grinder for the bits left behind in the sifter, which doesn’t have the exact same behavior as flour, although it works well enough.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with an old hand-cranked nut grinder that I found in an antique store basement. It has what appears to be a grain attachment, but I’m not sure. The wing nut was missing, so I’ve had to roll my own.

I may have to spring for a real mill, because the bread, muffins, and cereal made with this makeshift home-ground wheat berries is quite good.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (EXyHK)

341 Tulsi resigned, I get there were stuff but I liked her there

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

342 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Huh. I'm 29 and I've always avoided phone conversations because I don't like them. I'm an Influencer! Who knew?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)

343 Crockpot meals or casseroles are among my favorites. Spend a few minutes prepping, throw everything in the pot, and let ‘er rip. Food for a couple days, and just about everything tastes better the 2nd day. Soups, stews, and spaghetti sauce anyhow

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (E4WLu)

344 I've argued we should replace EBT with food baskets of raw stuff like chicken and noodles.

Throw in an air fryer up to once a year. They are only $60 for a halfway decent one and smaller and easier to setup then a real stove but will give you 80% of the use...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM

That's a good idea. My grandmother and her peers got a pressure cooker during rationing, plus recipe booklets for common rations.

Speaking of which, I was amused when sorting through my parents' bookshelves to find the pamphlets that came with their avocado-green cookware and fancy appliances. I took a few home with me, including "how to freeze food". I thought about wrapping up "how to cook in your new microwave" (circa 1982) and giving it to one of my siblings as a gag Christmas gift.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (fxCK2)

345 People have appalling hygiene. I don't know why this is arguable or people are feeling defensive about DD.

Do what you want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (/Aq4A)

346 Chicken Rice: Chicken parts with or without skin (it's better with), 1 c rice, 1 packet of Lipton Onion Soup, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, 1-1/2 cans of water. Cover and cook at 375 for about an hour. Absolutely fool proof.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (DwqWV)

347 Theme for our times: Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (reMys)

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Watched a documentary about the making of that ... and the incredible female singer pouring her heart and soul into belting out those background lyrics (she was brought into over dub The Stones' already recorded music and lyrics), Merry Clayton, was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at the time and subsequently lost her baby -- which she and her husband attributed to that incredible performance.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (BcFIZ)

348 There was a Congress dude that I heard about yesterday that said that Medicaid could save so much money by sending out non-slip shower mats.

...

And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

I don't know that I've ever bought one, I've always lived with other people who take care of those kinds of things before it ever falls to me. But I think I would probably go out and get one if it did.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

349
I've found that food reheats much better in an air fryer than in a microwave.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (HdYcL)

350 This kind of helplessness seems way more common nowadays, but certainly wasn't unheard of in previous generations.

Way back in the 20th Century my brother and his gf had a coworker and his whatever-she-was over for dinner.

Bro's gf had made something or other that was simple but tasty.

Whatever-she-was expressed admiration for the taste wished she could cook...anything.

BGF started telling her the recipe. Blank look. BGF took it down a notch. "You could try making Hamburger Helper for a start... all you have to do is brown the hamburger." "How do you brown hamburger?"

This is thepoint at which BGF gave up.

I assume that whoever whatever-she-was is banging nowadays is still paying for restaurants or takeouts for every meal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (IG3/x)

351 348 There was a Congress dude that I heard about yesterday that said that Medicaid could save so much money by sending out non-slip shower mats.

...

And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

I don't know that I've ever bought one, I've always lived with other people who take care of those kinds of things before it ever falls to me. But I think I would probably go out and get one if it did.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

======

Looked like Angus King.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (46HP8)

352 297
Have a crockpot?

It's easy to cook extra chicken breasts and freeze the rest for meals later.

Cook a roast. There are lots of ways you can use the leftovers to make other meals.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (3ek7K)

Croc pot means something different in Loosiana

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

353 People have appalling hygiene. I don't know why this is arguable or people are feeling defensive about DD.

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Do they know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (Fi81e)

354 My parents have a microwave from the late 70s, which I think was the first time they were commonly available.

It still works.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

355 I bought a Joy of Cooking for the boy when he moved out. He then asked for the recipes for a lot of stuff I cooked when he lived at home. On one of the old recipes my mom sent me, she annotated that it was easy enough that DH could do it. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (DwqWV)
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When I went off to college, my mom gave me a binder of recipes that she had cooked for me when I was a kid. All neatly typed up and categorized. I use that binder all the time!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (gnNyN)

356 And at Legalinsurrection.com, sreems NY resigned from the Federal Government, Let them handle their own police, laws and have fun.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

357 The one item that it is far preferable to buy than make is onion rings. Sure, you can do it cheaply, but if you are making some, you might as well make about ten pounds of them.

I haven't made tamales at home, but I bet they are similar.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

There is a place just down the street from me that makes excellent onion rings.. But they are large portions, so wife and I will split an order.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (0aYVJ)

358
Do what you want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (/Aq4A)

___________

*hacks loogie on sidewalk*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (HdYcL)

359 Loved ramen noodles back in the day when i used to gorge on that while playing Halo

I get the keto version now when Im nostalgic for it, its called Immi, which I also occasionally gorge on while playing Halo

Tomi Lahren would be very disappointed in me, but she pissho so who cares

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (fapp/)

360 That's a good idea. My grandmother and her peers got a pressure cooker during rationing, plus recipe booklets for common rations.

---------------

Wifey uses a pressure cooker for about half of our meals.

We did have one accident where the pressure got too high, the plug blew, and made a gumbo mess on the walls and ceiling!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (BcFIZ)

361 And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

Lack of adhesive ducks is a serious problem! OTOH, I got to see Penny's butt because of that, so it can also be a win.

Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

362 > But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

I don't think it is, is it?

Or is that one of those things that varies by state?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

363 Watched a documentary about the making of that ... and the incredible female singer pouring her heart and soul into belting out those background lyrics (she was brought into over dub The Stones' already recorded music and lyrics), Merry Clayton, was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at the time and subsequently lost her baby -- which she and her husband attributed to that incredible performance.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (BcFIZ)

And she came into the studio in the middle of the night in her bathrobe and hair in curlers. She also sings on Sweet Home Alabama.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (CNl8/)

364 > My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone

I don't like talking on the phone for most things because it's synchronous. You don't need to interrupt what I'm doing to ask me to add a task to my queue. I'll see your message and add the task when I choose.

I talk on the phone with people I love, or people I make time for. Everyone else gets my time and attention at my discretion.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (mkw2N)

365 They cant heat a can of campbell soup

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (bXbFr)
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They should probably remove it from the can first, though.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

366 What is wrong with these people!!??
Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Hb+bW)

I'll take sh*tty parents for $500, Alex.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (k9OZB)

367 362 > But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

I don't think it is, is it?

Or is that one of those things that varies by state?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

In CA it is

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (mmXBm)

368
How many of the food delivery people wipe their asses with their hands. How many of the "cooks" do the same?

I don't care if the food is wrapped in plastic.

It's a crap shoot or will turn into a crap shoot after you eat it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (3ek7K)

369 342 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Huh. I'm 29 and I've always avoided phone conversations because I don't like them. I'm an Influencer! Who knew?
Posted by: Archimedes at May

I hate talking on the phone. With a passion.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (OoFl2)

370 Back during the tech bust, there was a young guy that had lost his job and was trying tonsurvive on the dollar menu at McDonalds. He didn't know how to cook and asked for advice. Getting a crockpot was a popular suggestion

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (7T8ei)

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