I can’t wait for the “GenZ are killing the restaurant business!” headlines.
To late us millennials already claimed that. Pretty sure we killed restaurants around the same time we killed movie theaters, trade schools, and domestic beer.
I barely eat at chain restaurants anymore, and the last time I did (at the Keg with a gift card) it was way better than it was 5-10 years ago, presumably because they’ve had to actually compete with good local restaurants nearby to win customers over.
RIP Chain Restaurants, killing them was the best thing that’s happened to them.
Yeah some places have gotten better and can be a pretty good deal. I’ll do olive garden and they give you a salad and bread sticks with your entree, do carry out and have 2-3 meals for about $20 depending on what you get. Just have to have the right expectations.
Domestic beer?! If there is one impressive thing millennials have accomplished so far, it’s putting a brewery in every neighborhood of every major city in the western world. Locally brewed beer has been having a really good couple of decades.
Domestic is typically classified as beer like Budwiser and Miller. You’re describing craft beer which as you said it’s doing great… For IPAs
gonna be honest “domestic” beer deserves to die
As long as you like IPAs
While it’s true that IPAs are most common, there are plenty of choices, especially at this time of year when everyone makes a Marzen, then a pumpkin, then a holiday ale. One of the reasons I like my local brewery is the variety of styles they make
In my fridge right now
- marzen
- “festbier”, spiced German ale
- Boch
- esb
- and of course an ipa
I know this - my husband is actually a small batch brewer himself - but IPAs very much dominate the market, which is what i was poking fun at
It’s the only legal way to kill ourselves and it tastes better than smoking.
I don’t know if Millennials get credit for that. The legislation allowing it was signed by Jimmy Carter before these kids were born, and us X’ers did a lot more to get the industry established
Well yeah, but they’ll move on from millennials at some point! Soon everything will be gen z’s fault!
Gen z killed " millennials killed" articles
Well we killed chain restaurants… Mainly because nobody can afford to waste our money on microwave crap when we can make better food at home
Just wait, next time the economy is doing good, and gen z can afford to actually do things, there will be a lot of “gen Z discovers” articles. “Gen Z discovers you can pay for someone to make food for you”, “Gen z is discovering that vacations are fun”
Like it just took this long to realize lol
Gen Z discovers the joy of home ownership lol
unlikely
Too soon
Gen Z discovers the joy of revolution
Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to
achieve financial successsurviveFTFY
Fuck, what about millennials? Those guys been fucked even longer.
Edging up to that 4th “once in a lifetime” economic collapse.
We are no longer the main protagonists :(
Captain Phillips meme,
Millennials: “Look at me. I am the boomer now.”
That’s because we are starting to fill their spots so they are being careful now.
Calm down, there is plenty of fucking for everyone.
We’re just hiding in the shadows silently eating avocado toast hoping the next generation will fix it because I think we broke it more.
I make my own bread now 😭
I know, right? Millennial, here. I eat out more often than I cook. I should probably be doing what the Zoomers are.
On the bright side I can make pizza from scratch and meal prep virtually guarantees I get the macros I need for the gym.
demand better kitchens and kitchen storage in rentals.
it is a fucking joke out here
You guys got rentals?
wtf, financial success?
Not sure i know what that is, but it seems a pretty depressing goal to have.
Could be worse though.Should be “financial security” imo.
The prospect of not even being able to afford a “cheap” roof over my head scares me regularly.
Now you know why the boomers raise the rent to the point where it makes everyone but themselves miserable. They consider it financial success, where normal people consider it ruthless exploitation.
Better to talk about how they shaped zoning laws and other procedural matters to block the development of new housing for decades and decades.
Sure, the market price of housing is disgustingly high and you can say that it’s exploitative to actually charge it, but a much better question is to ask why the market price of housing got so high to begin with, because the answer to that is more complicated than landlords just asking for as much as they can get. They’ve always done that, so why as has that ceiling price exploded so much in recent decades? That’s where you can start to find actual solutions.
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Aren’t we all? The price of everything has gone up the past few years.
Cooking helps you save money, eat better, and can be entertaining. I’ve started to really get into recently.
Yeah I feel like the headline is intentionally bait-y here.
Eating out adds up fast, and if you’re on a limited budget, of course you’re going to start cooking more. Even if we’re generous with the word “cooking” to include things like cereal and sandwiches. And of course you’re going to reevaluate your shopping when money is tight. Lock down to the essentials to stretch that paycheck.
The people who complain about their finances while simultaneously eating out 3x a day and buying shit they don’t need are digging their own holes. Spend the money on shit you DO need and save the rest.
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches have become a staple for me over the last couple years. So long ordering out every day. I hate cooking.
Same. I tried doing the meal kit things to make it a bit less painful but I just really really hate every part of cooking. I’d rather do dishes for an hour every day than cook.
Sounds like y’all want one pot, sheet pan, or dump meals. Those meal kits give you a bunch of cooking to do so you don’t feel like you wasted your money. Cooking everything at once does restrict you somewhat, but not as much as just eating sandwiches.
My boomer mother only knew how to heat up frozen foods or follow the directions on the box, so what really helped me learn to cook was Good Eats. Watch it and make the food. Many of the recipes were retooled by Alton Brown and are on his website for free (with no annoying monologues before each recipe). The rest are on Food Network’s site.
It’s better for the planet too.
Not the way I cook. Can I interest any of y’all in some exhaust pipe s’mores?
Mmmmm, I can really taste the rich fuel-air mix. The 91 octane is divine.
Fuck it just go straight leaded gas
Also: It’s smth to do during small parties, hanging out with friends, dates et cetera.
I always assumed cooking was the default.
I grew up in a household that did not cook. It wasn’t always takeout or junk food but “cooking” was grilled cheese and Kraft dinner etc. I loathe cooking.
I often wish I had a healthier (physically and mentally) upbringing that included cooking as a fun activity. Maybe I’d feel different about it.
I don’t know of many doing day-to-day cooking for “fun”. Its a bother. However, if you’re okay without requiring gourmet meals, its not too bad. There are shortcuts.
- Learn a total of 5 or 6 meals total, thats it forever. Then repeat them. You’ll always know the ingredients, and you can buy in larger quantities so it doesn’t break the bank.
- Choose fairly simple preparation things. Sure fancy food is nice, but a PITA to prepare. Keep it simple.
- A meal is 3 things: a single serving of protein, a single serving of vegetables, a single serving of starch. A serving is a portion about the size of your closed fist. Example: pork, green beans, potatoes. Thats a meal.
- Choose ingredients that are fairly cheap or easy to substitute.
Pulled pork is one of the easiest, cheapest, and tastiest meals you can make.
Ingredients:
3lbs (or 1.3Kg) Pork - any of these cuts is fine, buy what’s cheap:
- shoulder/butt
- loin
- “country ribs”
- “cutlets”
Buns
Green beans (can is fine to begin/fast, frozen when you want to up your game)
Bottle of BBQ sauce
Instructions:
- Plug in a crockpot (if you don’t own one, they’re cheap new and even cheaper second hand, expect $10 to $20 to buy one)
- Set it for “slow” or “long” or “6 hours” or “low” labels vary, its all the same setting
- Turn on your kitchen fauct. Put a cup under the water for 3 seconds. Pour that water in the crockpot.
- Put in your pork
- Put 1/2 of your bottle of BBQ sauce in the crock pot on top of the pork.
- Walk away for at least 4 hours. If its 6 or 8 hours, thats fine too.
- When you come back take two forks and pull the meal apart. It will be very soft. Us this time to remove any bones if your pork cuts had bones. Meat will fall off the bone easily. Use your two forks to pull the meat apart, shredding it. Do this until all the meat is shredded. If you came back at the 4 hour mark, leave again for another 2 hours or so. If you’re already at the 6 or 8 hour mark, You’re done!
Empty your can of green beans in a Microwave safe dish and put it on high for 2.5 minutes or until they’re hot. Green beans in the can are already cooked when canned, so they’re safe to eat at any temperature.
Get a bun, pull out some wonderful pulled pork on it, add some more of the BBQ sauce from your bottle. You’ve got a protein, a veg, and a starch.
That 3lbs will feed you for almost a week. You can freeze some on day two or three for meals for future weeks.
Thank you for taking the time to write that out for a complete stranger. I’m gonna give it a go!
You’re a good human.
Amazing, that’s an excellent comment. Hold up are there rewards on lemmy? I wish we could label a comment as “good comment” like a wordpress l Wikipedia article.
You can do this with beef or chicken too.
Pulled pork is one of the easiest, cheapest, and tastiest meals you can make.
What, almost tasteless flesh strings you cooked for 2 hours?
Not two, six hours!
if it makes you feel better I was raised in a house where my mom cooked. But she was not real great about it. Actually she could make some great stuff on holidays so more limited budget combined with limited effort really. Im not sure she liked to cook really but she pretty much had to. Typical week was chili, spagehetti, chilimac, shakeNbake leg quarters, macNcheese. Anyway Im not a very good cook. I don’t necessarily loathe it, but im not good. Particularly at seasoning. that is the tough part. I can bake decently. Usually that is just following the recipe exactly and can grill decently.
You just listed my comfort foods.
All 3 of our kids that are still at home can cook well & we take turns doing it throughout the week. Been 6 months so far & it’s working out great.
Cooking lets you off dish duty for the evening, too :D
The reason for this is bad but the end result is good. Let’s hope these habits stick around once people are in a better spot.
I wouldn’t get your hopes too high.
In the wake of the 2008 crisis, many people stopped buying huge gas-guzzling automobiles and started buying smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles.
Sure enough, as things recovered, people bounced right back to the SUVs.
Also those fuel efficient vehicles got more expensive to make up for sales.
I think i saw someone say in the US a “commercial small truck” is exempt from various regulations (efficiency /pollution or something ) that apply to “cars”, so end up more expensive for that too.
This is true; “light truck” is the classification.
Basically, it would have been annoying and more expensive for car manufacturers to meet the standards, so they just started producing and promoting a bunch of vehicles like SUVs that technically classify as light trucks and thus are exempt from them. American consumers are American and thus love dumb big things for the sake of being big, so that was a pretty good gamble.
Yes, there are loopholes for “commercial vehicles” that aren’t regulated as strictly, which is why pickups keep getting bigger and have such bad efficiency
It also creates weird counter-incentives, like no small/mid pickups. Manufacturers don’t want to build small to mid sized pickups because they would be subject to more stringent efficiency, emissions , and safety regulations, whereas large ones are not
Fuck personal transport all my homies hate personal transport
Small vehicles aren’t sold in the US anymore.
Just like small phones
Largely because there is such little demand for them relative to huge vehicles.
How else will Bob and Beth show off how deeply serious they are as people without a massive truck and SUV that they actually use for their intended non-urban purpose maybe once a year?
Or some just like cooking and don’t give a damn about consumerism?
I’m not exactly struggling with finances. I cook all my food because I like to and have time. I hardly buy stuff because I unbrainwashed myself from consumerism.
Half the reason I semi-retired in my 30s is because I need little to satisfy me after de-bloating my mind.
I have a baby son and a wife and plenty of time to spend with them.
All of the people I know who have more money than me do not have any of this.
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, Our future ist burning, I am serious look at that shit.
GenX here, sounds like me a few decades ago, counting the pennies and balancing everything, and not completely succeeding.
So… Just keep at it and it will work out? House, spouse, dog, picket fence and all that?
Sorry bud, looks like they ran out of internet. o7
And they’re doing it cheerfully, I’m led to believe. Images don’t lie. Look how happy they are.
pre-made food is less expensive than individual ingredients where I live… I couldn’t cook my own food even if I wanted to
Beans, bread, rice and noodles are cheap af
prepackaged ramen noodles cost less than buying the stuff i’d use to make them individually :( and bread is very expensive here
That sucks man. In Germany the basic food quality is fine and food staples are quite cheap here.
The title of this article reads lile a dr seuss book
