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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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I just don’t understand why they think people mow gardens.
  
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  - Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Grass is a part of gardens??? Where do you live that your garden has no lawn/grass in it???
    
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    howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Living in Canada. Very few of the gardens in my neighbourhood have grass. It’s not as uncommon as you think.
    
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    PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    In America gardens are typically the tilled soil where one grows fruits, herbs, vegetables, and/or flowers. The grass is the lawn. Most houses have lawns, not everyone has the time, knowledge, or interest to have a garden.
    
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- moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  - PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Sorry, the short green stuff that’s an invasive species that everyone in America spends millions and millions of dollars to grow, wasting water and filling our habitat with harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Native grasses are dope, but very few people grow them.
    
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Also baking isn’t cooking, they are two different things.
    
    What the fuck are you even talking about now? What is a book full of baking recipes called? Hint: not a “baking book.”
    
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    Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s not a cookbook either
    
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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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