Comment by ssfdg
2 days ago
I'm sorry, but no, you don't get to lecture me about my privilege when I'm responding a grotesque coddled techbro pontificating about how Doordash has solved the problem of eating to the point that cooking is some quaint cute whimsical thing that people do as a hobby on the same level as owning a typewriter.
This reminds me of an HN comment years ago where an engineer at some big tech company was at a loss as to how he would get snacks/drinks as the company was ending its free/open kitchen policy (the obvious answer being to just go to the store and pack stuff the night before).
That was the day I realized being a software engineer from greater America is totally different than those from SV. The coddling was (is?) unreal.
Sure I do, the only difference between the two is which society considers normal. Your argument basically boils down to how dare these spoiled kids operate outside of the Overton Window of acceptable externalizable labor I was raised to consider normal. It wouldn't even be two generations ago where someone could write this exact rant about sewing. And today it is relegated to a quaint hobby. The same thing happened with car maintenance and food preservation within living memory.
Don't get me wrong, I partake in the group hazing ritual of guys who can't cook—it's good fun. But on the tiniest bit of introspection it's pretty obvious it's well on the way to becoming a hobby. We're already 90% of the way there with the hallowing out of the 'middle' between glorified warming prepared foods and enthusiast home cooks. The class divide isn't really cooks/non-cooks anymore it's DoorDash vs grocery store freezer section. Sad but not unexpected.
lmao pathetic
edit: to offer a slightly more substantive reply I will offer the Merriam Webster definition of cooking, which is "to prepare food for eating by a heating process" which applies just as much to warming preprepared or frozen foods as it does to enthusiast home cooks. I agree with you that the class divide is exemplified by the extremes of rich idiots who can just order Doordash for every meal and people who rely on the grocery store freezer section. The difference is that the people in the grocery store freezer section are actually cooking their food, while the Doordash people aren't, and the former category of people is substantially larger than the latter.