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> so it's easy to go round in a few minutes x7 days a week. But it's not just the time in the store, it's also whatever detour there is to get to it. At walkin

> so it's easy to go round in a few minutes x7 days a week. But it's not just the time in the store, it's also whatever detour there is to get to it. At walking speed. Whatever the wait time is at checkout. > less if you know exactly what you want. So now, I also increase my mental load because I need to know what I'm cooking tonight an hour or even two hours before I do so? I have to have my meal planned out hours in advance. And if there is another pandemic like event, I'm also constrained to the one day's supply of food that I have in my house at any given moment (maybe less than that, realistically). And it's still a fucking pain if I'm anything other than single. There was a point in my life not so many years ago, when we were going through about 4 gallons of milk per week. Hell, some of the things that we like to eat, that we should be eating for health reasons... you can't even buy those in single meal sizes. We'll probably have 3 (plastic) bags of vegetables home for salad.

nkrisc 2y ago
> So now, I also increase my mental load because I need to know what I'm cooking tonight an hour or even two hours before I do so? I have to have my meal planned out hours in advance. Oh, the horror. Usually I would just go in an see what looks good and decide then what I wanted for dinner.
Symbiote 2y ago
The detour is small. I think it's also more common to go every second or third day, rather than every day. Search "supermarket" in Copenhagen — not the city centre — and see how many results there are: https://www.google.com/maps/search/supermarket/@55.703748,12.5274019,15.87z/data=!4m2!2m1!6e6!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/supermarket/@55.703748,12... . You may well need to zoom in and refresh the search to see everything. > I need to know what I'm cooking tonight an hour or even two hours before I do so? Rather than knowing a week in advance? Come on. > Pandemic You can easily build up some reserves. > Milk You clearly have a large family, so you might consider that your situation is not universal. I think many Danes with a large family would mix the two options — shopping by car (or online for delivery) every week or two, and supplementing it with additional trips for fresh food. Two adults is also two people to share the shopping.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
  > The detour is small. For you. That one time. Honestly, I always seem to be on the wrong end of the curve when it comes to salaries... betcha I end up in the ghetto apartment in the food desert. > Rather than knowing a week in advance? Come on. Nah. You just get the things you usually get, and you make whatever of that you feel like that evening. No need to plan, you figure it out when you open the fridge. > You clearly have a large family, s Just the two children. Even with just two children, this quickly becomes absurdly impossible. For any more than that, the walkable city people just sound like stooges. Well, they sound like that long before we start talking about large families.
  - Symbiote 2y ago
    The map link is intentionally centred on a ghetto -- Denmark has a legal definition of that. Around 15-30% of urban Copenhagen households own at least one car, depending on the neighborhood.

nkrisc 2y ago

> So now, I also increase my mental load because I need to know what I'm cooking tonight an hour or even two hours before I do so? I have to have my meal planned out hours in advance. Oh, the horror. Usually I would just go in an see what looks good and decide then what I wanted for dinner.

Symbiote 2y ago

The detour is small. I think it's also more common to go every second or third day, rather than every day. Search "supermarket" in Copenhagen — not the city centre — and see how many results there are: https://www.google.com/maps/search/supermarket/@55.703748,12.5274019,15.87z/data=!4m2!2m1!6e6!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/supermarket/@55.703748,12... . You may well need to zoom in and refresh the search to see everything. > I need to know what I'm cooking tonight an hour or even two hours before I do so? Rather than knowing a week in advance? Come on. > Pandemic You can easily build up some reserves. > Milk You clearly have a large family, so you might consider that your situation is not universal. I think many Danes with a large family would mix the two options — shopping by car (or online for delivery) every week or two, and supplementing it with additional trips for fresh food. Two adults is also two people to share the shopping.

NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
> The detour is small. For you. That one time. Honestly, I always seem to be on the wrong end of the curve when it comes to salaries... betcha I end up in the ghetto apartment in the food desert. > Rather than knowing a week in advance? Come on. Nah. You just get the things you usually get, and you make whatever of that you feel like that evening. No need to plan, you figure it out when you open the fridge. > You clearly have a large family, s Just the two children. Even with just two children, this quickly becomes absurdly impossible. For any more than that, the walkable city people just sound like stooges. Well, they sound like that long before we start talking about large families.
- Symbiote 2y ago
  The map link is intentionally centred on a ghetto -- Denmark has a legal definition of that. Around 15-30% of urban Copenhagen households own at least one car, depending on the neighborhood.