I predict that store-bought pre-packages meals will become more common in Europe over time. I think there’s a clear pattern of food cultures being hollowed out

I predict that store-bought pre-packages meals will become more common in Europe over time. I think there’s a clear pattern of food cultures being hollowed out over time. It’s great if your parents know how to cook well and you can learn from them, but eventually that chain breaks when a child would rather buy their food than learn to cook it. Making things from scratch is hard and time-consuming if you don’t know how to cook. At that point store-bought meals are sometimes the best remaining option. The United States gets a lot of flack for being the first country to encounter a lot of issues because we were the first to widely industrialize food, but this will happen everywhere.