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I quit Blue Apron for a few reasons. 1. My plastic trash output doubled overnight when I signed up. 2. Excessive amounts of carrots and other "cheap, but
by brink 8y ago
I quit Blue Apron for a few reasons.
1. My plastic trash output doubled overnight when I signed up.
2. Excessive amounts of carrots and other "cheap, but filling" substances.
3. My life doesn't need another subscription service to think about and manage.
4. Going to the store once a week isn't that much of a hassle, the food quality is higher, and it's cheaper.
Edit: The variety was nice though. Trying something different every time was an adventure, though most nights I wasn't feeling adventurous. Most nights, I didn't really feel like cooking something I may or may not like.
- updateYourMind 8y agoI can't read your list on mobile
- QuercusMax 8y agoIs HN ever going to fix this issue? It's really obnoxious, and feels like it could be fixed with a stylesheet change.
- antidesitter 8y agoAgreed. It is beyond me why the admins refuse to change a couple of lines of CSS, when this is an issue that has been raised again and again by the community.
- updateYourMind 8y agoThey can be pretty stubborn. When they added the [-] next to comments, everybody told them, on day 1, that it made no sense to have it on the right side and it would be easier to minimize comments on the left side. They did nothing.
- ahakki 8y agoYou really shouln't use the fixed width style for lists, it's basically only useful for code. instead you can just make a list with normal paragraphs so that lines can wrap normally. 1. Item One Das Handelsgericht Zürich hat in einem Massnahmeverfahren der Raiffeisen Schweiz gegen Inside Paradeplatz und Lukas Hässig entschieden, dass der Artikel eines anonymen Autors vom 20. August 2018 zu löschen sei. 2. Item two Das Handelsgericht hat festgehalten, dass nicht klar sei, ob unter den gegebenen Umständen der Text wirklich wie behauptet von einem ehemaligen Kadermann der Bank stamme. 3. Item three Inside Paradeplatz und Lukas Hässig wie auch Raiffeisen Schweiz akzeptieren diesen Entscheid.
- shafyy 8y agoZüri!
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoCode also ought to be readable on mobile. Doing so will admittedly always be a compromise, but what we have now is very far from ideal.
- starpilot 8y agoNobody uses the code tag for code. Seriously.
- js2 8y agoQuoting brink (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258804) to help others on mobile: 1. My plastic trash output doubled overnight when I signed up. 2. Excessive amounts of carrots and other "cheap, but filling" substances. 3. My life doesn't need another subscription service to think about and manage. 4. Going to the store once a week isn't that much of a hassle, the food quality is higher, and it's cheaper.
- monksy 8y ago> Excessive amounts of carrots and other "cheap, but filling" substances. This is why I hate potatoes soo much. There are wayyy too many restaurants that depend on potatoes for margin.
- chrisseaton 8y agoWhat kind of restaurants are you thinking of? I've never eaten in a restaurant and thought they're bulking on potatoes. I find restaurants steer very clear of potatoes because they don't have any wow factor, and with the volume of food that goes to waste in most restaurants to produce a perfect little plate are they really worried about how much the raw materials are costing them?
- ac29 8y agoPlenty of places in the US will happily drop 500+ calories of french fries on a plate of food. Granted that is mostly limited to "American" food.
- bobthepanda 8y agoThere are other equivalents; Cantonese places will try to load up on bean sprouts to boost the weight of the dish.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> to boost the weight of the dish This claim doesn't make any sense. Who buys restaurant dishes by weight?
- bobthepanda 8y agoI misspoke and meant to say volume. That being said, you can buy some Cantonese food by weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siu_yuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siu_yuk
- TuringNYC 8y ago>> Going to the store once a week isn't that much of a hassle, the food quality is higher, and it's cheaper. Not sure how common my take is, but not only is going to a store not a hassle -- going to a grocery store is an absolute pleasure. It is a timeboxed task with a sense of accomplishment at the end that takes me away from my computer and gives me exercise (I usually walk.) I tend to do 2x a week to break up the task and do it more often because I like it. Shorter cycles also helps with freshness and error correction.
- biocomputation 8y agoTotally agree, and I don't know why more people don't say this. I actually enjoy going and looking at the food I'm going to buy. Most stores have nice extras like coffee shops and small cafes that can turn the 'chore' into a nice outing.
- freddie_mercury 8y agoMost people don't say it because most people don't feel that way. Not sure where the mystery is.
- flak48 8y agoThe non-bot interpretation of the comment you replied would be that he/she was wondering why more people don't feel that way.
- freddie_mercury 8y agoDo we really need deep discussions explaining why people have different preferences in life? I'm sure there are people who wonder why the OP doesn't enjoy spending time shopping for clothes. Most supermarkets in America do not have nice cafes. Most people go to a cafe if they want to go to a cafe, they don't go to a supermarket. Many people have to drag kids along and keep them under control when grocery shopping. It is a repetitive task. For most people there is no creativity or joy in it. Most people do not live within walking distance of their supermarket. Most people wouldn't walk there anyway, since they are shopping for a family of three or four. Most people don't see it as a break from other things, they see it as one more thing that has to be fit into a busy weekend (or even worse, an evening after work). And many more. Really the entire subthread reads like yuppie single men wondering why other people don't have the same preferences they do and being completely unable to figure it out.