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In the developing world, where highly processed food is usually too expensive for a normal family to live on, people cook regularly. Like, every day. How come?
by inglor_cz 4y ago
In the developing world, where highly processed food is usually too expensive for a normal family to live on, people cook regularly. Like, every day.
How come? They certainly don't work any fewer hours than Westerners do.
- escapedmoose 4y agoOften those tasks are left for their children who are forced to cut their education short to care for the family.
- inglor_cz 4y agoMy own grandparents came from very rural settings in pre-WWII Slovakia and almost all of the cooking was done by the adults, not by the kids. The kids helped around (carrying water, taking care of poultry etc.), but it didn't interfere with their schooling.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoI bet most families have an unemployed adult that cooks. Grandma or older child or some such.
- badpun 4y agoIn communist Poland, both of my parents worked, and yet my mother cooked every day after work. Work + commute took her around 9 - 9.5 hours per day. On top of that, there were long queues to buy anything at the stores, so you were spending easily an extra hour shopping per day (not to mention spending time bartering with family and neighbors the goods you managed to buy, but didn't need for stuff you actually do need).
- mvdwoord 4y agoAdmirable, but also because they're was no alternative most likely. Not necessarily a lifestyle to aspire to..