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2014-09-05 Home Front: Culture Wars
Let's Stop Idealizing the Home-Cooked Family Dinner
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Posted by Fred 2014-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 The author needs a lesson in reality. So do lots of sniveling kids.
Posted by gorb 2014-09-05 01:03||   2014-09-05 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Tearing the shit out of puff BS articles - The Burg special.
Posted by newc 2014-09-05 01:22||   2014-09-05 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The horrible stress of cooking!!!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-05 03:30||   2014-09-05 03:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The article iscwritten by Amanda Marcotte for Gods sake! What do you expect? She is a whiny sniveling feminazi biotch.
Posted by Sonny Glarong6820 2014-09-05 05:02||   2014-09-05 05:02|| Front Page Top

#5 She doesn't have any kids, does she?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-05 05:38||   2014-09-05 05:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I have seen this time and time again amongst feminists.

They have an aversion to cooking, and the reason they give others they for this aversion is that they "aren't very good at it" or they "have enough money to pay a restaurant chef to cook for them, and that amounts to the same as cooking for myself".

The reality is that they are so brainwashed by feminist propaganda about the horrors of being a "traditional" woman, and are frankly just plain lazy (why is cooking a "burden"?) that they would farm out this essential task to someone else.

You will notice amongst these types a simultaneous aversion to any sorts of crafts, particularly anything that involves sewing. For the same reasons.
Posted by no mo uro 2014-09-05 05:39||   2014-09-05 05:39|| Front Page Top

#7 No mo uro NAILED it again.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-05 06:37||   2014-09-05 06:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The writer obviously hasn't had my home cooked meals.

They idealize the fuck out of it.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-05 06:39||   2014-09-05 06:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Home-cooked meals, eaten as a family, are a primordial 'glue' supporting civil society. I suspect that's why people like Amanda oppose it.
Posted by Glenmore 2014-09-05 08:22||   2014-09-05 08:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Another indication of the Urbanists universe. The people who actually don't grow food, create energy, etc, but consume and defecate pontificate.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-05 08:35||   2014-09-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 If we want women—or gosh, men, too—to see cooking as fun, then these obstacles need to be fixed first. And whatever burden is left needs to be shared.

Oh gosh! Oh gee. More academic warmed-over tripe for lefty consumption. Making problems where they don't exist. Next, there will be a huge government program to solve this problem. Leave us alone. People can figure this out for themselves. Similar to Mooochell's group-think offal forced upon schools. These leftists just can't keep themselves from meddling in inconsequential things while ignoring or screwing things up of great consequence. Their life's work is being annoying?
Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-05 09:08||   2014-09-05 09:08|| Front Page Top

#12 1) Cooking is 'satisfying' - an actual task of value, that requires a degree of skill, accomplished with your own hands and mind.
2) Home-cooked meals can (should) be far cheaper and more nutritious than 'prepared' food (either grocery store prepared or restaurant.) With a little planning, it doesn't even take all that much more time.
Posted by Glenmore 2014-09-05 09:29||   2014-09-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#13 There sure seem too be alot of cooking shows/channels all over tv for it too be so unpopular!
Posted by chris 2014-09-05 10:16||   2014-09-05 10:16|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm no Deacon Blues, but I've cooked plenty for kids, not hard and kinda fun actually.
Posted by Shipman 2014-09-05 10:20||   2014-09-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Cooking is an expression of creativity.

Mustn't have that in the socialist utopia unless it's government controlled like what passes for 'art' nowdays according to the chattering classes.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-05 10:34||   2014-09-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Glenmore hit the nail. This is a cultural issue not nutritional. The consistent theme for the left is subversion of the family.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2014-09-05 10:36||   2014-09-05 10:36|| Front Page Top

#17 When your family is the obsticle to you feeding your family, there are other problems at large rather than how to make an orange-ganache.

the stress that cooking puts on people, particularly women, may not be worth the trade-off.

Arrrgh! Sexists!
I can't keep the kids out of the kitchen. My most vivid childhood Thanksgiving/Christmas memories revolved around the kitchen, second was the dinner table. I was inspired to cook when the pizza money ran out and nobody was there to feed me. I found a bag of flour and a dozen eggs could make meals of pasta. Put a game or some music on, roll it out, saved money by not going out, and in the long run saved time because I didn't have to drive out of my way to stand in line for iffy mediocre food, cooking time was boil water + 5 minutes, and the variations endless. Don't need a fridge to store it. Can cook it in a microwave. Eventually I learned that for the same price as a box of tacos I could have breaded pan fried trout and lentils.

Culture problem indeed. In Leftistland, good things just fall from the sky, like whales and daffadilles, no work involved. Do I love eating out, hell yeah. Only one person cooks eggs exactly like I like them, and that is me.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to make some high-plains hummus and, looking at the weather forecast, inventory for gumbo futures.
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-05 11:39||   2014-09-05 11:39|| Front Page Top

#18 Sometimes Mrs. Uluque gets tired so she orders me into the kitchen. Standing in the kitchen with a glass of whiskey, throwing stuff together and applying heat to it really is kinda fun. It's even better when I don't burn it and other people can actually eat it. I'll admit it, I watched the movie The Help. You know, the one about the white ladies in a southern state who couldn't get by without the colored help. Probably a leftist movie but there was one part where the black lady was showing the white lady how to fry chicken. I was inspired, went home and did it myself in a big cast iron skillet. Fun and tasty.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-09-05 12:10||   2014-09-05 12:10|| Front Page Top

#19 saved money by not going out, and in the long run saved time because I didn't have to drive out of my way to stand in line

Urbanists generally don't drive. They walk down a block or two, or hail a taxi, or jump on the subway/tube a couple minutes from their door. They have no comprehension beyond their little life bubble. That's until a Katrina shows up, then its beyond their abilities to cope and demand someone do all that messy stuff for them.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-05 12:23||   2014-09-05 12:23|| Front Page Top

#20 In Leftistland, good things just fall from the sky, like whales and daffadilles, no work involved.

swksvolFF nails another point.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-05 12:56||   2014-09-05 12:56|| Front Page Top

#21 Among her many other talents, Mrs. Ret is a genius in the kitchen, and I majored in Messcookery in the Nav, so it works nicely for us.
About the only thing I make for dinner is reservations....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-09-05 14:31||   2014-09-05 14:31|| Front Page Top

#22 Leftists like this Twit and Feminazis abhor the Family Unit. Both my parents cooked meals and as soon as we were old enough us kids did too. Sitting down to a meal without the television on, or nowdays the smartphone, gave us time to talk about the day's events and enjoy a good meal. Everyone helped clean up afterword. Oppression? How? In what way? Bugwit.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-09-05 15:12||   2014-09-05 15:12|| Front Page Top

#23 How-to: Bake a socialist cake!
Bellyache and take more than you make.
Add state power, one cup,
Then shake everyone up.
Serve the people. Enjoy a nice steak.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-05 15:16||   2014-09-05 15:16|| Front Page Top

#24 That chick is spun.
Just throw a HungryMan in the micro and relax lady.
Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-09-05 18:35||   2014-09-05 18:35|| Front Page Top

#25 Glad somebody reads Slate so I don't have to.
Jeesuz,,,
Posted by tu3031 2014-09-05 21:05||   2014-09-05 21:05|| Front Page Top

#26 Amanda Marcotte - feminist hero - said Kirsten Gillibrand should not name her Democrat sexual harrassment offenders - "take one for the party, hon", basically. A truly atrocious woman
Posted by Frank G 2014-09-05 22:26||   2014-09-05 22:26|| Front Page Top

#27 What's this about Whataburger ? Let!'s roll.
Posted by Shipman 2014-09-05 23:29||   2014-09-05 23:29|| Front Page Top

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