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.
Boys will be boys
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TomMasz@piefed.social 2 months ago
Drusas@fedia.io 2 months ago
Hey, the brine is delicious.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Best thing when dehydrated. Shot of pickle brine chased with a liter or two of water
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Do you think it’s coincidence that ‘brine’ rhymes with ‘wine’? 'Cause I do.
hoch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My ex would drink all the pickle juice before I even ate a single pickle.
It was madness
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Well, eating one chicken does count as eating a whole food.
lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You can each have one rotisserie chicken, as a treat.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In high school my one friend had a big trench coat, and we would use it to sneak rotisserie chickens into the movie theater.
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I’m down for some trenchcoat chicken
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve worked at several theaters in my life, always amazed by what gets snuck into theaters, ive even seen big family buckets of KFC
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Were you one of the cool ones? One time I went in with my small backpack bursting with Taco Bell. The door guy asked to check my bag, took a peek, looked at me disappointingly, then shrugged and let me in anyway haha
Sunshine@reddthat.com 2 months ago
What the actual fuck? 😂
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine like four or five of us sitting in the front row of a crowded theater, chowing down on rotisserie chickens with our bare hands.
In retrospect I feel so bad for the people sitting near us 😂
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can’t think of a less pleasant food to eat in a cinema. So greasy.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Popcorn is covered in grease. Grease is satiating.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
In my day it was onions. We wore them on our belts
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
…which was the style at the time.
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Little fellas probably getting into gym culture
axx@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Animal cruelty and gym culture. Off to a good start.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While I don’t disagree on companies (having always been) getting greedy, getting a whole cooked chicken for 5 bucks is only possible through industrial factory farming of livestock with horrible animal cruelty. Try raising, slaughtering, plucking, gutting and cooking a chicken for that average price while basically creating a torture concentration camp for chicken.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wonder if we’ll ever be able to solve the animal cruelty problem through brute force technology. For example, genetically engineer chickens so they simply never grow a brain. Raise the brainless bodies hooked up to an intravenous feeding system. Could cram more of them in a smaller space that way too. Can’t be cruel to a thing that isn’t conscious in the first place. Sort of a poor man’s lab-grown-meat approach.
Amusingly, most people would probably find this a lot more horrifying than factory farms, even though objectively the animals would experience absolutely no suffering whatsoever, as they wouldn’t even have the minds to comprehend anything about themselves or their environment.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And even then, the stores have always been selling rotisserie chickens at a loss to get people in the door.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I bought one for $4.95 at Sam’s yesterday
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure that beans and lentils have always been cheaper than chicken.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Well, yeah but are they ready to go for you to eat immediately plates and even a fork is optional?
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Maybe that depends on where you are, but you can still get them at Walmart for $6 where I am
wunami@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Costco is still holding strong at $5. But, of course, you need a membership.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
As a active teen and even into my 20s I could eat two medium all-dressed pizzas, I’d fold them in half to eat them faster, then go biking for a few hours, then shit out a Douglas fir that evening.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok…what’s an all dressed pizza? I’ve had the fries.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
AI Overview An all-dressed pizza (or toute garnie) in Canada—specifically in Quebec and Montreal—is a traditional pie topped with tomato sauce, mild pork pepperoni, sliced green peppers, fresh mushrooms, and mozzarella cheese.
I suppose it’s a historical holdover name.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A two-pizza night once a week was pretty common before I got my driver’s licence. I used to ride a BMX everywhere, inc to work each day, maybe 30km a day in commutes.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In my belly, yes.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah, when I was going through puberty, the family was going through a burlap sack of rice every month.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Average 15 year old behavior.
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Damn… how much was that chicken in Whole Foods?
snooggums@piefed.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Am I misreading your comment, or are you saying an average male teen needs 4000 calories a day?
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
$8 doesn’t sound that bad for Whole Foods.
Better than eating a McDonald’s meal.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At the Whole Foods, cracking open a hot one with the boys.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Living like kings.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You will never know the hunger of a 15 year old boy unless you were one
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Interesting hypothesis. I went down the rabbit hole on it but couldn’t find supporting evidence (not to discredit your anecdotal experience of course). Seems if anything slightly the opposite on average. See for example “Sexual dimorphism in body size occurs when … living standards are high, and health correlate positively with male/female height ratio” here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32793524/
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This wouldn’t surprise me at all, tbh. My uncle (first son) is way taller than my dad (second son) because back in the day my family didn’t have much money, and they prioritized feeding the oldest son. Same genetics, different diet. If there had been a girl sibling involved, she probably would have gotten even less food.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Being a teenage boy is hungry work.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Fake.
If this was real, they would also have had a loaf of bread each. Hard to miss 15 loaves of bread.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The one time in history a bunch of 15yr olds bag a bunch of chicks and it really happened.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Probably football players. It’s almost hell week
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is this a commentary on how much food a 15 year old can eat or on shrinkflation. :)
Drusas@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months ago
I thought they were super cheap or something. I don’t eat them myself.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One of them should try the costco chickens.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At that age I would have had one if those and asked for seconds.
The_dev0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We call 'em “Bachelor’s handbags” here in Australia.
kboos1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That actually sounds pretty good right now, Ihaven’t eaten anything but a banana today.
It’s the little things
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 2 months ago
Valid
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 2 months 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m surprised I haven’t heard this happening from my teens. They’re not especially into junk or fast food, but do like lean proteins: eating an entire rotisserie chicken each would be entirely consistent, and cheaper.
The only unrealistic thing here is that I almost never see that many chickens out on the warming shelves at one time
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Stop whining and get back to generating shareholder value. You can block out your emotions with subscription services.
Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I should call him…
crank0271@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless you’re OP
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months 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 2 months 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.