Please. Gen X proudly warms up cans of Chef Boyardee.
It's always about dat math
Submitted 7 hours ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to memes@sopuli.xyz
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the_q@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
OfCourseNot@fedia.io 2 hours ago
I don't know what's up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.
About the fees, there's none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their 'discount offers', but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).
Also, I only tip if it's rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Meh. I like to cook and it’s far better than the uber eats slop that I need to reheat that I just spent $35 plus tip on which would have cost me $14 to just eat at the restaurant but I wanted the free fries and bogo burger when I spent $30.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Millennial here. I cook most of my own food. Have never and will never use services like door dash, cuz I don’t want to pay extra to give some stranger unmonitored access to my food. I will tip when I eat out, even though I hate it - for fuck’s sake just factor the tip into the price of the food… my whim as a customer shouldn’t determine if someone else’s employee gets a fair wage.
Anywho, I don’t think that’s horribly uncommon for my generation - most of us can’t afford to eat out more than once or twice a month, if that.
zewm@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I stopped tipping for take out or if it’s a self serve place. If I’m doing 80% of the work, why should I tip you for pressing 3 buttons on an iPad. Fuck that.
If it’s a place I’m sitting down and have an active wait staff taking my order and bringing my food and then taking the dishes after, then yea I’m gonna tip.
I’m done with the bullshit that puts the consumer on the lowest rung. If you can’t afford to pay your staff then I hope you go out of business.
glorkon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Cooking your own food is much more fun and a lot cheaper anyway.
Yesterday, me and my wife had a whole roast duck in a christmassy port wine sauce with cinnamon, cloves and anise. Served with potatoes and red cabbage. All the ingredients combined cost less that ordering two pizzas.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Cooking your own food is much more fun
Until you have to clean the dishes.
glorkon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Takes about ten minutes. And there’s the dishwasher as well.
Also, I don’t have to throw away all the packaging in which the food is delivered.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
As a millennial, the only time I have ordered any food to my door was in early 2022 when I had corona and couldn’t leave home for a week. Had to order amazon fresh to restock.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I think what’s missing from the discussion is that virtually no-one is getting food delivery every day.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
When people tell me they get food delivered that isn’t a classic range of delivery foods (plus Ethiopian) so they can not be disturbed doomscrolling or binging TV, I immediately think less of them. Especially when it’s food that very obviously doesn’t travel well.
In the time it takes to pick something and get it to you, you can cook 1 of 900 million things that will be better. Even when drunk. Even when high AF. FFS, even frozen pizza is faster then delivery. Let alone the cost. Soggy-ass fry eating MFers deserve the cold sad food you eat.
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Sometimes, I just want to be a potato and wallow in self misery while someone brings me kebab and makes my life instantly better.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Cheapass Genx here. We’re admittedly too lazy to cook ourselves and prefer to spend that time on hobbies instead.
But food-delivery got so bad AND expensive here (Germany) that we switched to hiring a cook instead. He passionately loves his work, we love the food, everyone’s happy.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 seconds ago
cheapass
hired a cook
???
Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 hours ago
Bot account. AI slop.
fascicle@leminal.space 5 hours ago
I remember during covid we decided to try a food delivery website and was watching the person on the map so I could be ready. Then they just drove straight past our street and got on the highway and just kept going. We ended up getting a refund and just driving to a closer restaurant.
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Gen z and I’ve never used a food delivery service in my life
finitebanjo@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Vegetarian
(Vegan Optional)US Measurements
3 cups flour (get the most generic looking bag possible, bonus points for bread flour)
1 cup water full to the brim
2 tbsp olive oil
1.5 tsp Active Dry Yeast (Instant works too but you will get a different texture)
1 tsp saltOptional: 2tsp Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Parsely
Mix thoroughly, kitchen prep gloves can keep it out from under fingernails. Do not ingest any of the dough, the yeast is a bacteria which can turn the food in your belly into alcohol and cause serious damage. If dough stratifies, you didn't add enough water. If dough is too sticky, you didn't add enough flour. Dough should have smooth slightly shiny texture and be stretchable and fold able easily. Cover with wet cloth, I have a lot of cheese cloths at home for this purpose. Knead again in a couple of hours, if the cloth won't release you need to get it wet again. After a couple hours, put parchment paper on a pan and generously oil, knead and roll dough into final shape on pan, cover again for a short rise while preheating oven. It may at this step be filled with mozzarella, jalapeno, and/or other toppings of choice. Sometimes I precook some vegan blackbean patties and corn to shove inside.
Mix one egg with water in a cup or bowl and beat with a fork or small whisk. You will apply the egg wash before baking and then 3 times while, such as every 10 to 15 minutes.
Bake between 350F for 45min and 425F for 30min, or until it begins to darken to a caramel color on the top. Remove from oven and place another wet cloth over the top for 20 minutes. The egg wash and wet cloth will make a thin soft crust, but are completely optional.
If you bake a couple of loafs on the weekend you can safely package and freeze them and thaw throughout the week or month.
tyler@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Wide sweeping generalizations about entire generations. I don’t know a single millennial that uses those food delivery services. Clearly someone is using them, but i guarantee it’s just about evenly distributed across the population.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m a millenial. I kind of use those services. Not really.
2 years ago I moved into my apartment. I would come home, and see a bag of food delivery in the lobby.
So I would go up to my apartment, think nothing of it.
Then I’d take out my trash at 6am, and see it still sitting there. One day I checked the tag. Delivered 8pm the day day before.
It kept happening. Different apartments, delivery anywhere between 3pm and 10pm. I’d come home from work at 1am, and it still would be there.
Eventually I just started checking the tag, and if it’s been more than 2 hours, fuck it. Free dinner for me!
I still don’t get why these delivery drivers won’t deliver to the apartment door, always leaving food in the lobby. I also don’t get why the customers who paid for their food don’t come get it.
Either way, roughly once every 2 weeks, I have free dinner.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Seems to be unpopular to admit in this post, but I use food delivery apps. Yes, the fees are ridiculous, but I can afford it. I don’t do it every day, but I do at least once a week.
I hate cooking and I hate dishes. It’s never pleasant. No, I can’t personally make something at home “better than most takeouts”. If you can, good for you. It’s not for me and I’m lucky that I am able to get takeout.
Honestly, I don’t know how in the world one human is able to keep up with working 40 hours a week, laundry, cook, clean, etc. It’s all too much for me. Hell, the state of my laundry has been insane the last several weeks.
tyler@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Once you learn how to reduce a lot of that, there is less waste and less cooking and waiting and yes the food is better than food delivered to your door. Even the cheapest frozen pizzas are better than the majority of pizzas delivered to door and pizza companies are the best at delivering fresh food to your door.
If you don’t want to do dishes then use paper plates. Like, you can both simultaneously generate less trash and have better food.
I agree that it’s impossible to keep up with chores. I do just a little every day and that helps keep the number down but it’s still impossible. But like if I’m going to get food from a restaurant (which i do) i go pick it up. It will get to me faster, I’ll eat it fresher, it will taste better, and it will be cheaper. Like the only upside to the food delivery apps is that you don’t have to go outside, which honestly is a downside for a lot of people in this day and age. We need people to interact more.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Pro tip. Go to the laundromat. They have 75gallon machines. You can do a whole months worth of laundry in 1 go for a whole family. 30 minutes wash, 30-60 minutes dry. 1 afternoon, clothes for a month.
Or do drop off service, which costs 10x more, but you don’t have to do anything. Some even pickup/deliver
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Jumping on the “not knowing any millennials who do uses door dash every day/often” train, but also acknowledging that I cant possibly know every single person in the world.
Even tho the fact that people often use these services always bemused me, I cant pass the fact that these services are still thriving and there seems no end to their popularity.
tyler@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Yeah like i said, people are using them, but it’s almost guaranteed to be an even spread across the population.