Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/07/2025I KEEP SAYING!Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.socialI see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining. 1461495
geckofriend.bsky.social @geckofriend.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Oh man, Ada Palmer was one of my favorite professors in grad school—amazing crossover episode to see one of my favorite authors commenting on her post. ✨ 1180
Pebbles @marbledpebbles.bsky.social · 27/07/2025With all the drive for 'improving national productivity' it's odd that no-one ever suggests the return of canteens for cheap non fancy dining. I remember reading something really interesting (which I've never found again) about then being set up in London during WWII for precisely that reason 110
Joanne 🚲🦎 @josim1100.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I get not everyone can or wants to, but I cook every day while working (even travelling if I possibly can). I have narrow food preferences that are hard to meet in restaurants. Cooking, to me, means safety, comfort and creativity. But I hope you enjoy take-out and restaurant food without judgement! 000
David Forester @arborscientiae.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I do wish that we could reduce the plastic waste, though. I love it when restaurants use compostable containers at least. 2190
🍁🎃Eski🎃🍁 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Cheese and grapes is the meal of choice around here lately, and I'm not unhappy about it! 2210
Jennifer (Ill-Meaning Faery) @illmeaningfaery.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The only reason that we had home cooked food most nights in my childhood was my grandmother who lived with us and acted as nanny, housekeeper and cook. 3210
robert-moriyama.bsky.social @robert-moriyama.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Once upon a time, one adult working a full-time minimum wage job could buy a house and a car (or at least cover rent and bus fare) and feed their family, leaving the other adult (in the "ideal" family) to shop, cook, etc. Then prices soared but wages didn't... Now they need 2 OR MORE jobs to live. 060
4Farthings/Kim @4farthings.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I have literally no idea how to cook for less than six people. It is reassuring that this is actually fairly standard. 030
kulturschnepfe @kulturschnepfe.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I love my home cooked food and cook almost daily BUT we don't have good (meaning affordable on the regular) street food here in Germany, at least not on my budget. You bet I would go for street food often if it was different. 170
marithlizard @marithlizard.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I shared a link to your long thread about this on tumblr and the sheer number of comments expressing relief and gratitude surprised me. I almost want to compile them into a document and title it "FOOD IS HARD (and it is not your fault)". The critics and shamers are, as usual, missing the point. 1463
Onedimental Limited Pumpkin Spice Edition @onedimental.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I concede that I surely missed a lot of this discourse but my take away was the disparagement was not of people getting takeout / restaurant meals, but only knowing how to do that and not knowing how to shop reasonably / frugally at all. You don't need an umbrella today, but... you will some day. 130
Nix @nixjeelvy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025In Mediterranean cultures, cooking from scratch for the whole family is Grandma's full time job. 0150
