Boutique Suffering

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Because, hey, cooking is hard:

An exchange of views ensues. In which, Ms Taylor Lorenz, an “online culture journalist,” struggles with causality. Including the seemingly difficult concept that a heavy reliance on delivered takeaway, and the mindset that implies, may have some bearing on how little cash one has left at the end of the month.

You see, preparing a simple meal, even a packed lunch, is a physical impossibility for those deemed downtrodden.

 

12 Replies to “Boutique Suffering”

  1. “forced to rely on”

    Lib journos (which is pretty much all of them), use this phrase a lot. Sort of like “women and minorities hardest hit”.

  2. Thank you for the good laugh. This reminds me of what happened to a friend with her 42 year old son who makes $ 120,000 USD/year. His wife asked for a divorce and he has moved to another city. My friend went to help him set up house and discovered that he and his former wife ate in restaurants at least 3 times a week and on the other nights used Door Dash. As well, her son was paying all of the rent, utilities and internet with the wife only picking up her cell phone and maybe 50% of the groceries. No wonder he was broke. My friend showed him how to make simple meals (ie. baked chicken breast).

  4. i remember have an argument with “Canadian Cynic” (some here will remember him), where he argued that it was inhumane to ask people on welfare to cook their own meals. Why couldn’t they go to restaurants and order take out just like middle-class people?

    1. Oh, my….
      Canadian Cynic.
      Now there was a blithering imbecile of moronic proportions. A waste of oxygen so total I’d have paid to watch him choke to death on his own stupidity.

  5. The left and other low-IQ people can’t comprehend how the little things add up. When I was young, I worked construction one summer. The guys on the crew mocked me mercilessly for saving my plastic and paper bag to reuse…as they tossed theirs into a burn pile. Years later, when I owned my own restaurant in town, I’d see those guys from time to time. I was at a gas station, talking to the owner. In walked one of the guys I used to work with. Neither of us gave any indication that we recognized one another. Anyhow, he was driving a moped and walked in with a handful of change to purchase a couple of dollars of gas (back when that could get you more than half a gallon).

    Am I a hero? No. The question for many is this: how poor do you have to be before you accept that reality and adjust your lifestyle to reflect and correct your situation?

  6. If you use a service, you are paying for everything it would have cost you, plus cost+ perhaps on assumption that the professionals have at least some skill advantages by dint of sheer repetition.
    If you don’t like their food, choose another.

    Get the good stuff and get enough for leftovers.
    You can throw them in a bag and call it lunch.

    1. Mostly I cook my own food and have all my life. Restaurant food uses canola and a lot of it.
      In my house, we refer to canola as ‘motor oil’. No thanks.

      At home we use olive oil, butter, and lard. Mostly.
      We have peanut oil, sesame oil, almond oil, and avocado oil for flavouring.

  7. lm not good with money.
    but one thing l get right is not blowing copious amounts on snazzy electronics, new car every 4 years, and restaurants 4 times a week. as a result lm not loaded but currently the only debt is my credit card which lm aiming to zero balance and decrease the limit by end of summer.
    debt. its like a virus based on mathematics not biology. as rosy things are at times, l get a chill pondering future possibilities. the best we all can do is to minimize our personal debt.

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