I assume this is a murican problem. Where I live the delivery apps are about 5-15% more expensive than grabbing it yourself. If you order from a close by restaurant (<8km) the delivery is free most of the time, so you only have to pay the service fee (we don’t do tips).
This meme is as American as it gets.
Cooking your own food is pretty normal in most of the rest of the world, regardless of generation nonsense.
I’d say that it’s more of an economical difference than a cultural one. Rich people will always order (they don’t have time to cook) and their kids are not taken care of by them (not cooked for) so they order too.
How is this shitting on? Cooking for yourself and your family is chad as fuck.
back in my day calling someone “cheap as fuck” was an insult.
Food delivery apps (Uber eats, Deliveroo, Menulog, etc) are just another silicon valley scam ‘fixing’ a problem that did not exist.
The restaurants get stung for ~30%, yet are pressured to have a presence on the apps lest they lower thier market prescence, the gig worker delivery drivers get paid poorly and have no benefits, and ultimately the costs get shoveled onto the consumer impacting the highest year on year increases in fast food on record.
Opt out. Buy from places that have their own delivery service. Actually walk or drive or public transport to the restaurant and eat out - no waste from the delivery containers. Fuck the tech bros, we had fast food and delivery working just fine before their shitty apps arrived.
It’s Platform Capitalism.
You insert yourself as a convenient middle-man then jack up the rents once enough people move on to your platform to trigger network effects.
Enshittify until basically no one but a few execs and investors are profiting.
And to any engineers who think they’re on the winning team: look at the gig workers you help exploit. That’s the future of your vocation.
Maybe not ‘fixing’ a problem, but they certainly vastly improved on the existing service aspect of food delivery. Which is the aspect I care about.
Buy from places that have their own delivery service
Figuring out which local restaurant does and doesn’t currently deliver (which would change on a daily basis) was one of the main problems. Restaurant can still have their own delivery drivers but having a central place to look up who is currently (in-real time) delivering and what is a big improvement. Also I don’t want to call or talk to people, so every restaurant would need it’s own system to take online orders. Doesn’t seem realistic.
Actually walk or drive or public transport to the restaurant and eat out
Brilliant. You can also cut down on commute/travel time and cost by just staying home. Or fix your depression by stop being sad! Big brain.
Figuring out which local restaurant does and doesn’t currently deliver (which would change on a daily basis) was one of the main problems.
Your local food delivery places make changes to if they do delivery or not on a day to day basis? Do you live in a warzone? This is nonsense.
Also I don’t want to call or talk to people, so every restaurant would need it’s own system to take online orders. Doesn’t seem realistic.
TFW too scared to dial 9-11 because would have to speak to someone. dies
‘Big brain’ indeed.
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For reals. Why does my passion for good food make me feel old instead of just a healthy habit that most people could partake in despite their age
Please. Gen X proudly warms up cans of Chef Boyardee.
Meh. I like to cook and it’s far better than the uber eats slop that I need to reheat that I just spent $35 plus tip on which would have cost me $14 to just eat at the restaurant but I wanted the free fries and bogo burger when I spent $30.
were the fries any good
Lmfao. No
Millennial here. I cook most of my own food. Have never and will never use services like door dash, cuz I don’t want to pay extra to give some stranger unmonitored access to my food. I will tip when I eat out, even though I hate it - for fuck’s sake just factor the tip into the price of the food… my whim as a customer shouldn’t determine if someone else’s employee gets a fair wage.
Anywho, I don’t think that’s horribly uncommon for my generation - most of us can’t afford to eat out more than once or twice a month, if that.
some stranger unmonitored access to my food
Do you personally know every chef at every restaurant you eat at? Argument makes no sense
I stopped tipping for take out or if it’s a self serve place. If I’m doing 80% of the work, why should I tip you for pressing 3 buttons on an iPad. Fuck that.
If it’s a place I’m sitting down and have an active wait staff taking my order and bringing my food and then taking the dishes after, then yea I’m gonna tip.
I’m done with the bullshit that puts the consumer on the lowest rung. If you can’t afford to pay your staff then I hope you go out of business.
I’m not actually sure what the normal etiquette is there. The only time I ever get take out is from a mom-and-pop Thai restaurant that’s one of those hole in the wall places, and I tip the fuck out of them cuz I want to support them.
If you’re talking like a fast food burger joint, then yeah fuck that.
I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.
About the fees, there’s none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their ‘discount offers’, but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).
Also, I only tip if it’s rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.
I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.
How?? I suppose I did this like a decade ago, but ever since I learned to cook / budget, it seems untenable.
Cooking your own food is much more fun and a lot cheaper anyway.
Yesterday, me and my wife had a whole roast duck in a christmassy port wine sauce with cinnamon, cloves and anise. Served with potatoes and red cabbage. All the ingredients combined cost less than ordering two pizzas.
Cooking your own food is much more fun
Until you have to clean the dishes.
Takes about ten minutes. And there’s the dishwasher as well.
Also, I don’t have to throw away all the packaging in which the food is delivered.
I have lived in one apartment as an adult with a dishwasher.
I almost forgot about dishwashers. I am renting and the landlords are too cheapskate to fix ours.
I have one but never use it. With only 2 people in the house, it’s faster to just wash our two plates and the skillet right after using them.
I have a dishwasher and I watch Technology Connections. No I don’t!
Paper plates are a thing.
Millennial here, cooking your own food is “cheap af” now? I tell you, fresh produce and meat ain’t cheap where I live! My food tastes better than takeout anyway, f that noise. 😄
I remember during covid we decided to try a food delivery website and was watching the person on the map so I could be ready. Then they just drove straight past our street and got on the highway and just kept going. We ended up getting a refund and just driving to a closer restaurant.
As a millennial, the only time I have ordered any food to my door was in early 2022 when I had corona and couldn’t leave home for a week. Had to order amazon fresh to restock.
I think what’s missing from the discussion is that virtually no-one is getting food delivery every day.
Vegetarian
(Vegan Optional)
(Carnivore Optional)US Measurements
3 cups flour (get the most generic looking bag possible, bonus points for bread flour)
1 cup water full to the brim
2 tbsp olive oil
1.5 tsp Active Dry Yeast (Instant works too but you will get a different texture)
1 tsp saltOptional: 2tsp combined weight Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Parsely
Mix thoroughly, kitchen prep gloves can keep it out from under fingernails. Do not ingest any of the dough, the yeast is a bacteria which can turn the food in your belly into alcohol and cause serious damage. If dough stratifies, you didn’t add enough water. If dough is too sticky, you didn’t add enough flour. Dough should have smooth slightly shiny texture and be stretchable and fold able easily. Cover with wet cloth, I have a lot of cheese cloths at home for this purpose. Knead again in a couple of hours, if the cloth won’t release you need to get it wet again. After a couple hours, put parchment paper on a pan and generously oil, knead and roll dough into final shape on pan, cover again for a short rise while preheating oven. It may at this step be filled with mozzarella, jalapeno, and/or other toppings of choice. Sometimes I precook some vegan blackbean patties and corn to shove inside.
Mix one egg with water in a cup or bowl and beat with a fork or small whisk. You will apply the egg wash before baking and then 3 times while, such as every 10 to 15 minutes.
Bake between 350F for 45min and 425F for 30min, or until it begins to darken to a caramel color on the top. Remove from oven and place another wet cloth over the top for 20 minutes. The egg wash and wet cloth will make a thin soft crust, but are completely optional.
If you bake a couple of loafs on the weekend you can safely package and freeze them and thaw throughout the week or month.
