Comment on This world is cruel…

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hobby cooking and cooking to survive are very different things. Also, are you under the impression that gardening and lawn mowing are the same?

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  • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you cook, you cook for a purpose, you don’t throw food away just because you’ve cooked for the sake of cooking, you eat it, or serve it to someone else to eat. In the end it’s a chore fulfilled still.

    And lawn mowing is a part of gardening, just as pruning flowers and dealing with seedlings is. Sincerely, what do you think gardening is? Vegetables and fruit trees? No, as a hobby and chore it’s so much more than that. If you own a garden you want it to be presentable in at least some capacity, that requires taking care of it by planting bushes, trimming them, dealing with pests, seeding new grass if a heatwave destroyed it, etc.

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Grass is stupid, just get rid of it and it won’t matter if mowing it is gardening or not.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just don’t understand why they think people mow gardens.

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      • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Grass is not stupid! The way we work it is however quite stupid. There are beautiful and resilient types of grasses which are fun to grow. They also have a rich history, read otherlands if you like to go through the ages of flora and fauna

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen anyone mow a garden.

      And people cook for others and don’t always eat what they cook. Like giving people cookies as a gift.

      Has no one ever given you cookies?

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      • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait, you’re American aren’t you? FYI, in other countries people who own a house have more than a lawn, because only having a lawn is considered weird af. But taking care of that lawn is still considered a part of gardening, and mowing is part of that.

        Also baking isn’t cooking, they are two different things. Baking is a lot more chemistry than cooking is

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you cook, you cook for a purpose, you don’t throw food away just because you’ve cooked for the sake of cooking, you eat it, or serve it to someone else to eat. In the end it’s a chore fulfilled still.

      There’s overlap, but not necessarily. If I’m cooking for fun, I’ll cook things that are tasty and that I (or whoever I’m cooking for) would enjoy eating. I won’t be paying attention to the nutritional content of the food. But if I’m cooking for sustenance, then nutritional value comes first before enjoyment of the process or the food. Sometimes, you have to do both for one meal.

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• moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who cooked for a living, home cooking is fun! It’s like making art, but you get to eat the art! And gardening isn’t mowing a lawn, my plants are well kept and the process of seeing the effect of small changes you make to placement, water schedule, additives is like having a pet :)

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  • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cooking for others is fun, I agree. I love baking for others myself. Even have my own chocolate chip cookie recipe that managed to impress the local grandma club.

    I also think there’s some confusion about American and European gardening, here mowing is just considered as much a part of taking care of a garden as is dealing with seedlings, etc. There’s an expectation too, to keep proper plants apart from grass on your property, so gardening is much more chore-like here. Bushes are a popular alternative to fences, and those need trimming after all

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