Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
1d ago
A meal costing less than $10 isn't "cutting corners," I think we're running into some serious clashes of socioeconomic status and culture here.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
I'm sorry, but you're really overselling how hard it is to cook while poor. A real porcelain plate with a aesthetic pattern on it is like $3 or less at a dollar general, you can get plates and bowls for 4 people for $20, which can be hand-washed in a few minutes. Pots and pans can be found secondhand, cast-iron can be found used, scoured, and re-glazed.
The cost and inconvenience of getting quality ingredients like meat and fresh vegetables is the problem, and the hapless fecklessness of the underclass who literally can't cook and who are tempted by uber-eats wackarnolds.
I live in a shite neighborhood in west-side Chicago, I'm lucky enough to have an Aldi nearby, but there's plenty of people slightly further away who really only have shitty inconvenience stores available, which carry "groceries" at absurd markup because it's meant to be bought with SNAP by people who don't want to walk further than a block.
Chicken thigh: $8/bag, let's call it $1.50 for the thigh, there's at least six of them in there. Marinaded with .25¢ worth of Italian dressing and grilled.
Box of smoked gouda mac&cheese (this is real cheese goo, not powder) $2. Add .50¢ for milk, butter, and black pepper to dress it up further.
A bag of frozen brussels sprouts: $1.75
That's $6 for a meal I'd consider excessive and fancy home fare; that mac&cheese could feed two people, it could easily just be noodles with butter and parm for even cheaper. This is hardly rice-and-beans or oliver twist orphan slop.
For another dollar, you could add grilled sweet mini peppers.
Cooking all this is hardly rocket science, if a human can't bother to take the 30 minutes to prepare food for themselves and would rather waddle to the wackarnolds, I don't have much sympathy for their plight.
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