When I was fifteen, I could totally eat an entire rotisserie chicken in a single sitting. I was also gaining height by inches at a time.
Boys will be boys
Submitted 13 hours ago by chicken@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
TomMasz@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Teen boys are eating machines. I remember when my kids were teens and a bunch of boys came to the house. It was like a plague of locusts. They pretty much emptied the fridge. I still fondly recall pulling out a pickle jar they had eaten all of the pickles out of, leaving just the brine.
Drusas@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Hey, the brine is delicious.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Best thing when dehydrated. Shot of pickle brine chased with a liter or two of water
rmuk@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Do you think it’s coincidence that ‘brine’ rhymes with ‘wine’? 'Cause I do.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 hours ago
Fake.
If this was real, they would also have had a loaf of bread each. Hard to miss 15 loaves of bread.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Well, eating one chicken does count as eating a whole food.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Shit man one upon a time those chicken’s were like $5 a pop. Cheapest and fastest way of getting a ton of protein in by far. Now not so much. The last time I bought one I think it was double that in price. This is why we can’t have nice things. Companies gotta get greedy.
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Maybe that depends on where you are, but you can still get them at Walmart for $6 where I am
wunami@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Costco is still holding strong at $5. But, of course, you need a membership.
lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
You can each have one rotisserie chicken, as a treat.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You will never know the hunger of a 15 year old boy unless you were one
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I could have eaten one as a fifteen year old girl but I attribute that to my parents heavy encouragement of sports and lack of body shanking compared to other families.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Yeah, when I was going through puberty, the family was going through a burlap sack of rice every month.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
In my day it was onions. We wore them on our belts
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
…which was the style at the time.
frog@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Damn… how much was that chicken in Whole Foods?
snooggums@piefed.world 12 hours ago
They are about $8 for roughly 2 lbs at about 1000 calories a lb if you eat the skin and all the meat.
That would be completely reasonable as a large meal as it is about half the daily calories for an average sized male teenager, especially if they are very active.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Am I misreading your comment, or are you saying an average male teen needs 4000 calories a day?
frog@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
$8 doesn’t sound that bad for Whole Foods.
Better than eating a McDonald’s meal.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Average 15 year old behavior.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Being a teenage boy is hungry work.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Probably football players. It’s almost hell week
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Male puberty as an adult. Being that level of “eat an entire pizza” hungry and being able to sate it is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Best parts of college were splitting a pitcher of beer with a bro and eating the kind of pizza that leaves a snail trail.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Is this a commentary on how much food a 15 year old can eat or on shrinkflation. :)
Drusas@fedia.io 10 hours ago
I don't know about these kids, but among my teenage friend group, we would have had to pool our money to afford one rotisserie chicken. Maybe two if we were rolling in it.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I thought they were super cheap or something. I don’t eat them myself.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
At that age I would have had one if those and asked for seconds.
itrealgood@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
I can’t hit my protein
kboos1@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That actually sounds pretty good right now, Ihaven’t eaten anything but a banana today.
It’s the little things
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Valid
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
When I was a kid we had personal pizzas.
unitedwithme@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I used to eat a 16" large “thin crust” by myself.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I used to inhale a whole regular-sized pizza. Now I have 3/4 of a 400g small
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 12 hours ago
The real teenage behavior starts when you figure out if they all planned to take a shit in the woods to see how big they can make the pile. Or if they didn’t do that, they come back and start recounting how they destroyed their toilets and made Mom and Pop angry.
db2@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Not seeing the issue here. Sounds pretty wholesome to me actually! A bunch of boys hanging out. Unknowing to the horrors that adulthood brings. Soon high school will end. Soon college will start. Some of your friends will drift away. Some you won’t even notice until you realize one day it’s been a while since you hung out with that one guy. The one you’re not best friends with, but sometimes he’d be around. Except he hasn’t been around for months, and you’re just now noticing. Other friends you notice right away are gone. They get accepted into a college on the other side of the country. You claim you’ll keep in touch, but lets be real. You’re both going to be super busy with college. You’ll drift away from one of your best friends over the next few years. It’s neither of your faults really. That’s just how life is. You spent your whole life with this guy since you were 5 years old, and now as you transition into adulthood you become strangers. Then one day you wake up, and realize you haven’t seen any of those friends in 20 years. All you do is work six days a week, and run errands on the 7th so you have enough supplies to handle the upcoming week. Now even the burnt out face in the mirror looks like a stranger.
But at least they’ll have the wholesome memories of being in a costco as teens and eating chicken together. Before it all fell apart.
waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
this hurt to read. i hate how well it captures that feeling. why the hell is adulthood like this? we grind people into paste and don’t even realise how much we have lost of what they could have been. sigh.
rmuk@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Stop whining and get back to generating shareholder value. You can block out your emotions with subscription services.
Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 11 hours ago
Goddammit, fine. I will go to the next reunion, and I will bring chicken for the lads, for old time’s sake.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
And maybe some pot? Remember when we were kids, and smoking in the ally, and saying how weed will never be legal in our lifetimes? Welp. It’s legal. In our lifetimes.
Hey, wanna play this disc of MP3s I burned onto a CD? It’s got Oasis, and Sublime in there somewhere.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I should call him…
crank0271@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Unless you’re OP
sundray@lemmus.org 13 hours ago
I can have trouble assessing tone sometimes so I might be way off, but the OOP seemed more amused than upset to me, maybe?
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
You’re absolutely right, but I am already absolutely in awe of them actually eating chicken and not just staring at their phones without interacting. At least that’s my assumption because trying to devour a rotisserie chicken with one hand while holding your phone in the other seems like a challenge.