Let’s stop buying fast food BS, buy from local restourants, shops etc etc or make the shit yourself at home if you can and bring it with you, sure it may get cold but better than that overpriced burger in your hands now
I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.
If there’s somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn’t push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I’m going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I’d be shocked if most people wouldn’t agree with this?
For those who are feeding whole families where economies of scale can apply and forty minutes of shopping, thirty minutes of setup, twenty minutes of work, and then ten minutes of cleanup can feed half a dozen mouths at least two meals per day for an entire week or more, it is indeed worth it. But if you are, however, working three jobs and barely have time to sleep let alone cook, and you factor in the time it takes as time you could have been on the clock earning money, and the ridiculous cost of groceries lately, sometimes self-prep is just not cost effective
Go ahead and let yourself grab that Costco rotisserie chicken and eat it straight out of the bag with your hands. There’s still something primally satisfying to it, and no one has the right to take at least THAT away from you. You have symbolically hunted for this bird behind the punch clock. Savor the time it saves you.
Is the key in my message, anyway, it’s better if you buy food from lical restourants or shops, they usually sell bigger quantities for less than fast food
(well… at least where i live and a good chunk of europe, idk how the situation is in the USA and other places tho)
Okay WOW it seems there’s a whole freaking paragraph i thought was IN my reply that i never actually managed to put in there x.x
I could have SWORN i had a bit where I was pumping up local restaurants too! DANG IT!
ANYWHO i agree with that and totally botched putting in the part where I wanted to make that clear >.< Local restaurants, especially the family owned ones, are a TREASURE! in my experience they are indeed actually worth it! Like, especially in terms of making the day to day lived experience more worthwhile! Real food cooked by good people from scratch is irreplaceable and impossible to replicate. Aint no sysco freight truck that bulk carries the ingredients i taste at the local Jamaican joint i love so much!
Furthermore we kinda have a too many calories problem in the United States anyway–specifically the empty ones without any micronutrient value whatsoever. Getting food full of diverse flavor and a wide scope of ingredients covers so many more bases. Hell, I also love salads from the Italian place near my house (they have this spinach pie one, i get Bleu Cheese dressing for it, it’s massive and feeds me for two days on less than ten bucks per day) and I can practically TASTE the vitamins @.@
(Ooh damn I’m gonna get that today too actually…!)
I only mentioned Costco because I like how they treat their employees and the rotisserie chickens are indeed extremely particularly cost effective
But yeah I’m entirely down with that: “IF YOU CAN!”
We’re all running on limited resources that are getting tighter by the day and everyone deserves s modicum of grace for needing to cut corners because there’s no other way to survive! Local small places that make their own stuff instead of adherence to some Corpo menu DEFINITELY ARE more cost effective now than any chain restaurant.
I haven’t bought a single thing from McDonald’s since last year and I say GOOOOOOOD RIDDANCE!
Let’s stop buying fast food BS, buy from local restourants, shops etc etc or make the shit yourself at home if you can and bring it with you, sure it may get cold but better than that overpriced burger in your hands now
I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.
If there’s somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn’t push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I’m going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I’d be shocked if most people wouldn’t agree with this?
For those who are feeding whole families where economies of scale can apply and forty minutes of shopping, thirty minutes of setup, twenty minutes of work, and then ten minutes of cleanup can feed half a dozen mouths at least two meals per day for an entire week or more, it is indeed worth it. But if you are, however, working three jobs and barely have time to sleep let alone cook, and you factor in the time it takes as time you could have been on the clock earning money, and the ridiculous cost of groceries lately, sometimes self-prep is just not cost effective
Go ahead and let yourself grab that Costco rotisserie chicken and eat it straight out of the bag with your hands. There’s still something primally satisfying to it, and no one has the right to take at least THAT away from you. You have symbolically hunted for this bird behind the punch clock. Savor the time it saves you.
Is the key in my message, anyway, it’s better if you buy food from lical restourants or shops, they usually sell bigger quantities for less than fast food
(well… at least where i live and a good chunk of europe, idk how the situation is in the USA and other places tho)
!
Okay WOW it seems there’s a whole freaking paragraph i thought was IN my reply that i never actually managed to put in there x.x
I could have SWORN i had a bit where I was pumping up local restaurants too! DANG IT!
ANYWHO i agree with that and totally botched putting in the part where I wanted to make that clear >.< Local restaurants, especially the family owned ones, are a TREASURE! in my experience they are indeed actually worth it! Like, especially in terms of making the day to day lived experience more worthwhile! Real food cooked by good people from scratch is irreplaceable and impossible to replicate. Aint no sysco freight truck that bulk carries the ingredients i taste at the local Jamaican joint i love so much!
Furthermore we kinda have a too many calories problem in the United States anyway–specifically the empty ones without any micronutrient value whatsoever. Getting food full of diverse flavor and a wide scope of ingredients covers so many more bases. Hell, I also love salads from the Italian place near my house (they have this spinach pie one, i get Bleu Cheese dressing for it, it’s massive and feeds me for two days on less than ten bucks per day) and I can practically TASTE the vitamins @.@
(Ooh damn I’m gonna get that today too actually…!)
I only mentioned Costco because I like how they treat their employees and the rotisserie chickens are indeed extremely particularly cost effective
But yeah I’m entirely down with that: “IF YOU CAN!”
We’re all running on limited resources that are getting tighter by the day and everyone deserves s modicum of grace for needing to cut corners because there’s no other way to survive! Local small places that make their own stuff instead of adherence to some Corpo menu DEFINITELY ARE more cost effective now than any chain restaurant.
I haven’t bought a single thing from McDonald’s since last year and I say GOOOOOOOD RIDDANCE!