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You don't need a personal chef to cook non processed food at home, not even a stay at home housewife of 60's. This is the most privileged thing I hear Americans
by Dma54rhs 5y ago
You don't need a personal chef to cook non processed food at home, not even a stay at home housewife of 60's. This is the most privileged thing I hear Americans repeating. All the raw ingredients are there at your supermarkets, cheap prices compared to your wages. I've seen it with my own eyes from visiting. It's just laziness and saving time, billions of people around the world cook at home from raw ingredients. They also go to work.
People are lazy and prefer to replace it with netflix which I don't have a problem with until people lie to themselves and others about the reasons.
- AniseAbyss 5y agoMy mom had a job. When she came home she still cooked a meal for her family. With vegetables. The real truth is that a majority of Americans are now overweight. Unhealthy lifestyle has been normalised to a point when non fat kids who don't eat pizza for lunch will be bullied.
- the_lonely_road 5y ago2021 high school America: https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+high+school+america&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwirrbvgoLnzAhWDnVMKHW2yAZQQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=2021+high+school+america&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeOgQIABBDOgUIABCABDoECAAQGDoECCEQClC6A1jiD2CdEWgAcAB4AIABfogB9AWSAQM4LjGYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=OGhfYauxOYO7zgLt5IagCQ&bih=553&biw=375&client=safari&prmd=mnixv&hl=en-us https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+high+school+america&tbm... I see mostly healthy (80% or more) BMI kids in these photos. 2021 middle school America: https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+middle+school+america&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=mnixv&sxsrf=AOaemvKs1bwTfUKO3GTpQTHZSySYWC7WLQ:1633642731210&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9gbu1obnzAhWSF1kFHdhUB2EQ_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=375&bih=553&dpr=2 https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+middle+school+america&c... Again nearly all of them healthy BMI. Moving away from anecdotes to statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html Not surprising 20% obesity and 80% healthy. This is a tragedy that needs to be addressed but is not even close to non fat kids are being abused by fat kids now in America. While the picture for adults is much worse, still only 42.4% of American adults are obese. A great tragedy that needs to be addressed but a “significant” majority of Americans are still at a healthy BMI.
- rkk3 5y agoNot sure what a google search for "2021 High School America" is supposed to prove. Its just a collection of photo's of beauty pagent winners and athletes...
- the_lonely_road 5y agoThen we are getting localized results differences. I spent a few seconds scrolling down those links and there are dozens of group shot photos of dozens of American school children. It’s anecdotal evidence showing that the majority of American children are not obese which you can see in those photos with your own eyes. If you don’t like anecdotes it’s followed up with the actual population level statistics from an authoritative source.
- monkeywork 5y ago>You don't need s personal chef to cook non processed food at home, not even a stay at home housewife of 60's. This is the most privileged thing I hear Americans repeating I think you are manufacturing your own argument here - no one said that they had to eat at a restaurant, have a personal chef, or a 60s housewife to eat well?
- Dma54rhs 5y agoI think you've misread something, the parent post specifically mentioned personal chefs. Not trying to manufacture anything here and I give you the benefit of doubt.
- least 5y agoIt kind of comes down to wealth and the average American is significantly wealthier than the average Indian (or average a lot of countries). Wealth affords you time for things that you care to pursue rather than things you have to. For an American this translates to a lot of people not spending much time in the kitchen. It could perhaps be perceived as laziness when you deride whatever replacement someone chooses over basic chores they’re no longer responsible for but really this is you conflating leisurely activities as lazy. I personally enjoy cooking but not everyone does and them choosing to pay to not have to do that is their choice.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoYeah that's just coping. America is fat and lazy and it makes us superior to those untermensch who try to feed their kids responsibly. You know it's okay to criticize the environment you grow up in right? It's how society improves.
- uselesscynicism 5y agoGotta love the casual racism in this comment. This guy knows what every American's wages are and what their lives are like. All 350 million of us, from Alabama to California, this guy is the expert on their situations and he's got the diagnosis! It's just laziness that causes Americans to buy processed foods, and soda!
- Teknoman117 5y agoPrivileged, certainly. I take exception to the "laziness" accusation though. We all have a finite amount of time on this planet, and replacing menial tasks with things that are interesting or enriching should be considered one of the more positive things one can do for their own life. It's like what they say about being rich/wealthy. Many people (I blame media mostly) think about the luxury items and lifestyle that one can purchase, but the real win is that fact that you don't have to anything you don't want to do ever again. You can choose exactly how you are going to live your life. I don't personally believe life has a purpose or meaning, and I've become content to just wander the world finding interesting things until the end of it.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoYou should've taken exception to the opposite. Relying on processed junk isn't privileged; it's lazy.
- mypalmike 5y agoCooking food that is good for your body is not menial - it's central to living. Many people these days (myself even relatively recently) might choose a TV dinner so they don't miss any of that critical episode of House Hunters rather than spend 20 minutes throwing together a stir fry from raw ingredients. It is a lazy choice.
- Viliam1234 5y agoSome meals are so easy to cook that you could actually watch the TV while cooking, only looking away for a few moments, usually while cutting ingredients. (Then there are other meals where such approach would most likely result in burning the meal.)
- manmal 5y agoYep. I often listen to audiobooks while cooking - ideal for shutting down after work.
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- PostThisTooFast 5y agoWhere did he "lie about the reasons?" He made a simple assertion of fact: Fewer people are cooking at home, and they're relying on processed junk. What's "privileged" about that, either?
- missedthecue 5y agoI agree with this. A combo meal at McDonalds is $8 or $9 per person these days, meanwhile, a (relatively) healthy supermarket meal easily cooked on the stovetop in the time it takes to wait in a drive-thru costs $1 or $2 per person. I don't buy into the idea that Americans eat processed unhealthy foods because of their personal financial situation.
- rosseloh 5y ago> a (relatively) healthy supermarket meal easily cooked on the stovetop in the time it takes to wait in a drive-thru Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with your overall point....but what drive-thrus do you use? A home-cooked meal for me takes at MINIMUM an hour. Prep, cooking, eating, cleanup. If it takes less than that, then it's probably a lot of pre-made/processed stuff that isn't particularly healthy in itself. The only way I've been able to get around it with my work schedule is to meal-prep on weekends. Making stuff in bulk helps, but it's still 3-5 hours of my precious weekend used up.
- the8472 5y ago> A home-cooked meal for me takes at MINIMUM an hour. It's not hard to optimize for speed. White rice, beans and frozen veggies boil in 10-15 minutes and don't even require attention for the full timespan. Cleanup consists of putting things in the dishwasher. And I don't know why you would factor in eating, going to McD won't teleport it into your stomach. Time can be further amortized by making several servings, putting them in the fridge and warming them up in the microwave later. We're comparing to fastfood here, not a high end restaurant course.
- Spivak 5y agoI feel like this doesn’t optimize for enjoyment. Like shit this is what I ate when I was a broke in college. Are y’all not miserable eating this? At that point in my life getting taken by my parents out to somewhere mediocre like Olive Garden was heaven.
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- vehemenz 5y ago"Privilege" is an interesting word. If I were Indian or Chinese, I would feel privileged to have been raised in one the world's greatest food cultures instead of eating spaghetti and mac 'n' cheese like an American my whole life. Kids don't choose what their parents feed them, and that's how culture is imparted to the next generation.
- yodsanklai 5y agoI had a friend from Thailand who was an au pair in a very wealthy American family. She was genuinely sorry for them because they never ate fresh food. That being said, junk food isn't the privilege of Americans. Even countries with a "food culture" like France eat a lot of junk food.
- nkohari 5y agoThis is a very broad statement. It's likely true in some cases, but access to food is wildly different depending on where you live and how much you make. Consider these individuals (not meant as an exhaustive list of archetypes): 1. A high-income American who lives in a large city, owns a car and/or can afford grocery delivery 2. A middle-income American who lives in the suburbs and has access to a grocery store, but is price-sensitive when it comes to food 3. A low-income American without access to a car, who lives in a "food desert" in a large city and does most of their shopping at a bodega/corner market 4. An American who lives in a rural area without a grocery store for several miles The way these people engage with food is wildly different, and only those in the first group could be rationally considered "lazy" if they chose processed food. If your goal is simply to feed yourself and your family, you're likely going to optimize more for calories-per-dollar than you are than for freshness. When compared to processed food, fresh produce is actually incredibly expensive.
- 8note 5y agoAmericans don't know how to cook, and don't have somebody to teach them the basics. The bar to entry gets high when your parents can't cook
- jhanschoo 5y agoThe hours that you save not cooking meals add up. One hour a day spent cooking all three means (conservative estimate) is a lot when you have roughly 5 hours outside of work and sleep (likely less if you have a long commute). With access to outside food also cheap, there are other priorities to focus on. I don't live in the US, but cooking for myself only made sense after I started meal prepping.