A lot of young people seem to have no food preparation skills at all.
Lately I’ve seen a 3-way division in food shopping —
1) Yuppie types shop at Whole Foods and buy expensive, trendy things. In many cases, these people actually cook.
2) Old people shop at your basic neighborhood Supermarket. They’ve been cooking for years.
3) The average young person rarely shows up in establishments that sell unprepared food. They buy meals elsewhere, prepared by people who are paid to prepare their food.
Too many people buy expensive prepackaged prepared foods and restaurant meals and toss much of it in the garbage. I thought people were starving and were demanding a living wage. Hmm, if they’d learn to boil water, they might learn to prepare food at home and be able to live on their old wage.
A burger/fries/drink fast food in a sack runs about $8. Most dinners made from scratch in this house are about $1.50. No, it’s not cheap pasta meals. Last night was a stuffed pork loin. Two of their Starbucks coffees could buy a whole can of ground coffee that would last the month. Have they ever tasted tap water (ours is great) or is that just not hip enough for their costly bottled water crowd?
3) The average young person rarely shows up in establishments that sell unprepared food. They buy meals elsewhere, prepared by people who are paid to prepare their food.
I think you are correct. Much of their eating experiences come from the convenience stores or extremely quick in home, like frozen pizza.
I really don’t want any of the tuna either. It is full of water and just doesn’t taste the same.
This is correct. They were also raised on what I call “children’s food” and a movement to cater toward their tastes.
Starting with the launch of chicken McNuggets in the late 1970’s and child specific frozen dinners in the 1980’s, there has been an increased separation in what children eat and what adults eat. Add in the increase in sugar cereals, over-flavored yogurts, ranch dip, etc. and they’ve never been forced to eat something beyond the first time they didn’t like it.
I have 2 young men, both brothers, that are 26 and 24 that work for me. Both are Civil Engineering E.I.T.’s. Every day the older one brings a cold hot dog and bun for lunch and the other brings a breakfast burrito. That’s all I have seen them eat everyday for that last 14 months.
They still live at home and are more concerned with investing money for their retirement.