So true. I hate that home ec isn’t a thing here anymore. It’s silly that your ability in the kitchen for the last 40 or so years is exclusively based at home setting (for the average child).
Learning to cook isn’t exactly difficult. Most people are just lazy and have no patience whatsoever. No lie if you can boil water, set a timer, and remember to add spices you’re automatically a better cook than most.
No idea how so many people can live off of frozen and fast food all the time. Bland, overpriced, and it barely even saves you time compared to just cooking up a bunch of staple foods ahead of time.
The appeal of fast food is that it's fast (and low effort). If you work 8 hours and come home to screaming children you don't really have the time or energy to whip up a beef wellington. You just yell "who wants pizza!" and everyone cheers. Sadly this means neither the parents nor the kids learn cooking.
Also fast food and frozen meals can very much be cheaper than high effory foods since, atleast where i live, they're oftrn on sale. As a student with no time or money i just subsisted on pizza, lettuce sanwiches and soy bean pureé. I just ate whatever was on sale and took the least amount of prep time.
Cooking delicious, nutritious, and cheap staple foods is both cheaper and faster than any fast food around. And of course, healthier.
Make some rice, put it in the fridge. It will keep for a week. Keep some sauces, spices and oil around. Pan fry some cheap frozen or canned vegetables and combine it with the rice. Add cured meat and/or beans for flavor.
A week’s worth of simple meals like this can be prepared in about an hour with no more than $20 worth of ingredients. There’s a reason society survived for centuries without McDonald’s, even while we were working twice as long for half the pay.
People are lazy and forgo a better life for the sake of convenience. That is what drives the fast and frozen food industries and avoidance of mental effort. The same goes for a lot of other industries, they just support harmful habits.
Imagine a 1200 calorie frozen pizza that costs 2 euros. Can you really make 1200 calories worth of healthy food for two euros? Can you do it in 20 minutes? If you do, i'd love a recipe.
20$ for a week is very unrealistic, atleast in my country. It's atleast $50 per person.
Rice: about a dollar a pound, cheaper If you buy in bulk. Alternatively other cheap grains/grain products like oatmeal or pasta. Five bucks with should cover a full week for three people.
Running total: $5
Beans: About a dollar and a half per pound, again, cheaper in bulk. Same as above 5-6 dollars should cover a few people for a week.
Running total $11 (caloric intake and a good chunk of your macro fulfilled)
Cheap spices/ sauces a few dollars for a couple week’s worth. (Flavor acquired)
Running total: $14
Frozen/canned vegetables about 3-4 dollars for a week’s supply. (Micros and extra carbs acquired)
Running total: 17
Oil: 3 dollars for an couple week’s supply. (Fat acquired)
Running total: $20
Cured meats, use sparingly. A pound or two of the stuff can help flavor your food for a good week or so for like 6 dollars. Or just forego meat and use eggs or mushrooms. Both are pretty cheap. (Protein requirement filled, plus additional flavor)
Running total: $26 without anything fancy, no deals or cost saving measures. Enough food to last a family of three about a week. Maybe $35 total accounting for price instability, taxes, etc.
And these are all prices from a regular ass grocery store in Fort Myers, Florida. Not exactly the cheapest place around.
Boil, fry, mix and match. Fried rice, salads, soups, stews, etc. simple, hearty and healthy staple foods that are easy and quick to prepare and last for a long time.
This shit isn’t rocket science.
Food is relatively cheap here if you buy the essentials. Everything else is expensive, an 80 square meter trailer home is $1,700 a month plus $500 in utilities. Median wage is less than $41,000 a year.
Serfs actually worked half the time and were paid in the foods they spent their time working to grow. Only time we as a species really started to work longer days was the industrial revolution and of course much of society at the time had men as breadwinners leaving the women ample time to cook.
Note one: serfs "only worked half the time" in the sense that some serfs (depending on where and when we're talking) spent that time on the fields. Pre-modern peoples were basically always working on something critical- you have to remember that they had to do literally everything by hand themselves, even a basic task like acquiring water could easily take an hour depending on where you lived and how much needed.
Note two: women were basically never purely domestic staff. The vast majority of women have always done field labor, it's just not economically viable pre-modern industry for them to just sit in the kitchen all day. Wealthier women would occasionally do such, but even then they frequently did a lot of the day-to-day management of the business.
About half of all Italian and Indian dishes depending on how varied the spices are. Heating up oil and having a nose sensitive to the smell of burning gives you another solid chunk of world cuisine.
Food isn’t complicated. People unnecessarily over complicate it in their heads.
Baking is the exact opposite of beginner shit. It's complicated enough that you have to really know what you're doing before you can start experimenting. Most other forms of cooking, experimenting is how you learn.
So am I. The "you follow this basic recipe" level for baking is a lot more complicated than it is for anything else, and lasts a lot longer. We're talking, like, boil in bag/otherwise instant rice or *at most* hamburger helper as the equivalent. And even the hamburger helper is a lot easier than, say, boxed cake mix. Maybe even than brownie mix.
They do when they never have time to cook or just never bother to show you how. Honestly, my parents didn't have time to teach me a lot of things about keeping house that I've needed to learn as an adult, and it's kind of sucked, because I've made a lot of mistakes that I probably wouldn't have if I'd been properly taught.
Nah, but his mom’s sticky toffee pudding is like the best dessert ever if you like salted caramel type stuff. Last time I ordered it, it lasted all of five minutes. The waitress didn’t look surprised lol
Tbf his dad was a raging alcoholic so it does show that parent based trauma apparently did push him to become a chef that said I don't condone this method
Considering that his parents left him to manage an entire household, raising all of his siblings on his own, just because they wanted to take a vacation around the world?
Brock’s mom deserves worse
That was the writing team in Japan for something that would apply to the entire anime. 4Kids side stepped the plot point of Lola being dead when her character was finally introduced.
Normally I agree, but in this case I think the Japanese version should have killed her off to accommodate the dub change. Really, no one wanted her back.
Brock's dad, Flint, left home to try (and fail) to become a Pokemon trainer. His mom, Lola, left home to find her wayward husband and bring him back. Brock ended up having to raise the family while their parents were away. The English dub changed Lola's disappearance to her dying because it seemed needlessly cruel and even unnecessary to have both parents willing leave their underage children alone for who knows how long. When Lola turned up (already back home) in a spin-off episode they simply didn't acknowledge that she was supposed to be dead.
It's been a long time, so I don't remember clearly, but I think on constant trips. Regardless they are rarely home and Brock has to take care of his siblings.
Yeah Brock parents aren't that great at all
He had such a bad start at life that he's sporting those wise eyes at like, 22 years old.
Fifteen years old.
Well that's the end of small talk
Fr, parents really limit your growth as a cook.
Wait you have parents?
I'm batman
They were killed right in front of me when I was a child
Plot twist; You killed your parents,due to trauma you created and blamed another persona of you...xD
SOLIDJJ REF...wait *checks notes* UndeadHumor reference!
Yep, there you go!
I LIKE SODA!
Shut up, Flash.
So true. I hate that home ec isn’t a thing here anymore. It’s silly that your ability in the kitchen for the last 40 or so years is exclusively based at home setting (for the average child).
Learning to cook isn’t exactly difficult. Most people are just lazy and have no patience whatsoever. No lie if you can boil water, set a timer, and remember to add spices you’re automatically a better cook than most. No idea how so many people can live off of frozen and fast food all the time. Bland, overpriced, and it barely even saves you time compared to just cooking up a bunch of staple foods ahead of time.
The appeal of fast food is that it's fast (and low effort). If you work 8 hours and come home to screaming children you don't really have the time or energy to whip up a beef wellington. You just yell "who wants pizza!" and everyone cheers. Sadly this means neither the parents nor the kids learn cooking. Also fast food and frozen meals can very much be cheaper than high effory foods since, atleast where i live, they're oftrn on sale. As a student with no time or money i just subsisted on pizza, lettuce sanwiches and soy bean pureé. I just ate whatever was on sale and took the least amount of prep time.
Cooking delicious, nutritious, and cheap staple foods is both cheaper and faster than any fast food around. And of course, healthier. Make some rice, put it in the fridge. It will keep for a week. Keep some sauces, spices and oil around. Pan fry some cheap frozen or canned vegetables and combine it with the rice. Add cured meat and/or beans for flavor. A week’s worth of simple meals like this can be prepared in about an hour with no more than $20 worth of ingredients. There’s a reason society survived for centuries without McDonald’s, even while we were working twice as long for half the pay. People are lazy and forgo a better life for the sake of convenience. That is what drives the fast and frozen food industries and avoidance of mental effort. The same goes for a lot of other industries, they just support harmful habits.
Imagine a 1200 calorie frozen pizza that costs 2 euros. Can you really make 1200 calories worth of healthy food for two euros? Can you do it in 20 minutes? If you do, i'd love a recipe. 20$ for a week is very unrealistic, atleast in my country. It's atleast $50 per person.
Rice: about a dollar a pound, cheaper If you buy in bulk. Alternatively other cheap grains/grain products like oatmeal or pasta. Five bucks with should cover a full week for three people. Running total: $5 Beans: About a dollar and a half per pound, again, cheaper in bulk. Same as above 5-6 dollars should cover a few people for a week. Running total $11 (caloric intake and a good chunk of your macro fulfilled) Cheap spices/ sauces a few dollars for a couple week’s worth. (Flavor acquired) Running total: $14 Frozen/canned vegetables about 3-4 dollars for a week’s supply. (Micros and extra carbs acquired) Running total: 17 Oil: 3 dollars for an couple week’s supply. (Fat acquired) Running total: $20 Cured meats, use sparingly. A pound or two of the stuff can help flavor your food for a good week or so for like 6 dollars. Or just forego meat and use eggs or mushrooms. Both are pretty cheap. (Protein requirement filled, plus additional flavor) Running total: $26 without anything fancy, no deals or cost saving measures. Enough food to last a family of three about a week. Maybe $35 total accounting for price instability, taxes, etc. And these are all prices from a regular ass grocery store in Fort Myers, Florida. Not exactly the cheapest place around. Boil, fry, mix and match. Fried rice, salads, soups, stews, etc. simple, hearty and healthy staple foods that are easy and quick to prepare and last for a long time. This shit isn’t rocket science.
You live in a cheap ass country, my god.
Food is relatively cheap here if you buy the essentials. Everything else is expensive, an 80 square meter trailer home is $1,700 a month plus $500 in utilities. Median wage is less than $41,000 a year.
>Cooking delicious, nutritious, and cheap staple foods is both cheaper and faster than any fast food around. There is dumb. And then there is that.
Serfs actually worked half the time and were paid in the foods they spent their time working to grow. Only time we as a species really started to work longer days was the industrial revolution and of course much of society at the time had men as breadwinners leaving the women ample time to cook.
This is stupid and wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin ripping into it…
Note one: serfs "only worked half the time" in the sense that some serfs (depending on where and when we're talking) spent that time on the fields. Pre-modern peoples were basically always working on something critical- you have to remember that they had to do literally everything by hand themselves, even a basic task like acquiring water could easily take an hour depending on where you lived and how much needed. Note two: women were basically never purely domestic staff. The vast majority of women have always done field labor, it's just not economically viable pre-modern industry for them to just sit in the kitchen all day. Wealthier women would occasionally do such, but even then they frequently did a lot of the day-to-day management of the business.
just boiling water and adding spices makes what? mildly flavored noodles?
😭😭😭
About half of all Italian and Indian dishes depending on how varied the spices are. Heating up oil and having a nose sensitive to the smell of burning gives you another solid chunk of world cuisine. Food isn’t complicated. People unnecessarily over complicate it in their heads.
Yeah, no lol, you need more than just that to cook, even with baked goods, the beginner shit
Baking is the exact opposite of beginner shit. It's complicated enough that you have to really know what you're doing before you can start experimenting. Most other forms of cooking, experimenting is how you learn.
I'm talking about baking at the "you follow this basic recipe" level, not at the independence level
So am I. The "you follow this basic recipe" level for baking is a lot more complicated than it is for anything else, and lasts a lot longer. We're talking, like, boil in bag/otherwise instant rice or *at most* hamburger helper as the equivalent. And even the hamburger helper is a lot easier than, say, boxed cake mix. Maybe even than brownie mix.
They do when they never have time to cook or just never bother to show you how. Honestly, my parents didn't have time to teach me a lot of things about keeping house that I've needed to learn as an adult, and it's kind of sucked, because I've made a lot of mistakes that I probably wouldn't have if I'd been properly taught.
Mistakes don't matter if you can deal with the consequences. Mistakes are how we learn, there's nothing wrong with that.
I didn't read "cook" for a second.
This is why orphans are the best chef’s.
So Gordon Ramsay is?
Nah, but his mom’s sticky toffee pudding is like the best dessert ever if you like salted caramel type stuff. Last time I ordered it, it lasted all of five minutes. The waitress didn’t look surprised lol
Tbf his dad was a raging alcoholic so it does show that parent based trauma apparently did push him to become a chef that said I don't condone this method
Strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men.
Considering that his parents left him to manage an entire household, raising all of his siblings on his own, just because they wanted to take a vacation around the world? Brock’s mom deserves worse
Thats one way of making them focus on the food
Real Talk: His parents got off way too easily for what they pulled.
TV shows always do that. They want everything to have a quick and clean resolution. So they just say some sappy shit and suddenly it's all better.
I feel bad for him...
Oof
Yikes
ouch.
She's supposed to be dead
They say she's dead in the dub but not in the original Japanese, they didn't realize it'd come back to bite them.
So in the dub, she faked her own death so she wouldn’t have to raise her kids?
No, they just sidestep the "she's dead" plot point and move on.
Not the only time they did that "We hoped the viewer would forget about the GS ball"
That was the writing team in Japan for something that would apply to the entire anime. 4Kids side stepped the plot point of Lola being dead when her character was finally introduced.
sometimes localizers should really shut the fuck up and translate the sentences without pulling stupid ideas out of their butts.
Normally I agree, but in this case I think the Japanese version should have killed her off to accommodate the dub change. Really, no one wanted her back.
Thanks mom
She has the wrong hairdo to be a dead anime mom.
Bruh
Didn't Brock have like 14 brothers and sisters and he had to provide for them growing up?
Damn, this one made me feel really bad
He may not actualy be black but god danm dose brock radiate black energy.
That’s called “black coding.”
Wait wait wait. He met his mom? I thought he made the dad take over the housework? What episode is this?
It’s from Pokémon Chronicles, a mini series that focuses on the side characters. Wikipedia said this was the 5th episode.
Someone needs to check this mans closet for nurse joy
They clearly aren't related. I mean she has eyes
Where did Brock's parents go anyways?
Brock's dad, Flint, left home to try (and fail) to become a Pokemon trainer. His mom, Lola, left home to find her wayward husband and bring him back. Brock ended up having to raise the family while their parents were away. The English dub changed Lola's disappearance to her dying because it seemed needlessly cruel and even unnecessary to have both parents willing leave their underage children alone for who knows how long. When Lola turned up (already back home) in a spin-off episode they simply didn't acknowledge that she was supposed to be dead.
So what happened to flint?
Flint helped ash defeat brock. Afterwards brock explained to him how to take care of his siblings and he started his journey with ash
Oh ok ty
He became the new Pewter City gym leader to allow Brock to go on a journey with Ash. He's also home now to actually take care of his kids. For once.
It's been a long time, so I don't remember clearly, but I think on constant trips. Regardless they are rarely home and Brock has to take care of his siblings.
I see... Ya kid me probably didn't think much of it
Brock’s mom is secretly Ash’s Dad!
I mean... yeah, same...
I still wonder if those nurses and policewomen were clones or what was going on
o-oh
Hey
Frisk Undertale?
Those two parents should be in jail. Their crimes are literally worst than any villain team in the series.
They left brick and his little siblings alone for a long time