Food & Drink Why are some people proud of not knowing how to cook?

[Sailor.X]

I have been seeing a disturbing amount of young people online being smuggly proud of not knowing how to cook. They brag about ready made meals they order online or how they always order take out. Why do so many young people feel they don't need to have basic cooking skills. When I was young (Back when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth) It was expected Boy or Girl that you knew how to cook food. It was a basic life skill that my family taught me and my age group. This is just weird and disappointing to me. Any thoughts on this new trend?

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I have been seeing a disturbing amount of young people online being smuggly proud of not knowing how to cook. They brag about ready made meals they order online or how they always order take out. Why do so many young people feel they don't need to have basic cooking skills. When I was young (Back when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth) It was expected Boy or Girl that you knew how to cook food. It was a basic life skill that my family taught me and my age group. This is just weird and disappointing to me. Any thoughts on this new trend?

It's a mark of their 'success' that they have someone else make food for them.

It's all just bragging about their supposed station/superiority.

 

[Sailor.X]

It's a mark of their 'success' that they have someone else make food for them.

It's all just bragging about their supposed station/superiority.

Then they are fools and karma is gonna bite them in the ass big time.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Being a victim is good, so not knowing how to do something most people do gets you brownie points.

Having other people do the job for you is a way to flex.

Not having some basic life skills everybody else has gives you additional special snowflake points. You want to either be world-class or so hopeless you can catch a bowl of cold cereal on fire, being in the middle robs you of special snowflake points.

 

[49ersfootball]

I have been seeing a disturbing amount of young people online being smuggly proud of not knowing how to cook. They brag about ready made meals they order online or how they always order take out. Why do so many young people feel they don't need to have basic cooking skills. When I was young (Back when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth) It was expected Boy or Girl that you knew how to cook food. It was a basic life skill that my family taught me and my age group. This is just weird and disappointing to me. Any thoughts on this new trend?

I learned how to cook when I was a young kid including all of my siblings.

My wife, Alicia & I also taught all of our 9 sons to cook too.

 

[Sailor.X]

I learned how to cook when I was a young kid including all of my siblings.

My wife, Alicia & I also taught all of our 9 sons to cook too.

Good on you and your wife. They will be able to feed themselves later in life and not have to depend on food delivery people.

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

It's a mark of their 'success' that they have someone else make food for them.

It's all just bragging about their supposed station/superiority.

This. Modern people believe they are wealthy or powerful just because they don't need to cook.

They're a little too stupid to realize that if they did cook for themselves, they'd actually be considerably wealthier.

 

[King Krávoka]

Being useless is a status symbol. There is one gender. Modern day femininity is a crippling mental illness that recently jumped sexes after it began plaguing the lower classes.

 

[Captain X]

I have been seeing a disturbing amount of young people online being smuggly proud of not knowing how to cook. They brag about ready made meals they order online or how they always order take out. Why do so many young people feel they don't need to have basic cooking skills. When I was young (Back when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth) It was expected Boy or Girl that you knew how to cook food. It was a basic life skill that my family taught me and my age group. This is just weird and disappointing to me. Any thoughts on this new trend?

Just an extension of feeling proud to be stupid and ignorant of anything they don't consider to be "practical." They probably consider themselves to be "street smart."

 

[KilroywasNOTHere]

Being useless is a status symbol. There is one gender. Modern day femininity is a crippling mental illness that recently jumped sexes after it began plaguing the lower classes.

nah let's cut the gendered crap and just call it what it is, narcissism or as the bible calls it, pride, it is the most common sin in which most other sins flow and our nation is full of it

 

[Sailor.X]

Just an extension of feeling proud to be stupid and ignorant of anything they don't consider to be "practical." They probably consider themselves to be "street smart."

From what they say in comment sections I get that vibe.

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

Who the hell brags about not being able to know how to cook? I actually love cooking for the sake of cooking itself. Plus it helps me when I get to live on my own

 

[Tiamat]

Somewhat old thread, but my five cents anyway:

I learned to cook BECAUSE I HAD TO. Living alone, and part of that time living in areas where there weren't much in choices of dining service to choose from, was part of that. Second, a necessary survival skill as some already noted. If your ass is out in the woods or some other place and you don't even know how to cook a basic meal? You're good as screwed. Third? It's therapeutic. I won't lie I have some "minor" mental issues of my own, but I learned to deal with them, cooking is one of them. And seeing how damn unhinged some of the younger folks are right now mentally, maybe it's something they should try too.

 

[Sailor.X]

Somewhat old thread, but my five cents anyway:

I learned to cook BECAUSE I HAD TO. Living alone, and part of that time living in areas where there weren't much in choices of dining service to choose from, was part of that. Second, a necessary survival skill as some already noted. If your ass is out in the woods or some other place and you don't even know how to cook a basic meal? You're good as screwed. Third? It's therapeutic. I won't lie I have some "minor" mental issues of my own, but I learned to deal with them, cooking is one of them. And seeing how damn unhinged some of the younger folks are right now mentally, maybe it's something they should try too.

Indeed cooking is very good for the soul.

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

I agree. I just cooked pilaf with fish balls and fish tofu as substitutes for meat yesterday.

That being said, cooking can be fun too.