Lol you’re changing the topic because you know he’s right.

They've been changing the topic to try and shoehorn their own elitist opinion into something else. The entire topic is about cost. Not luxuries or people serving others. It's about money and how much things cost. The reason @TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world is being downvoted to hell and back is because they're missing the point from the beginning. If money is tight, why should people be forced to buy uncooked food and ingredients to make food at home, spend more money to do it, just to make some uptight person on Lemmy feel better about themselves?

If the already cooked chicken is cheaper, and money is tight for things like bills and electricity, buy the fucking cooked chicken. The only person who brought "luxury" into this was that idiot who completely missed the entire point of the conversation and the entire point of the post and had to stick his elitest fucking nose into everything.

Yes, I do cook my own food. I make dinner at home all the time. My partner cooks as well. Because we can afford dropping $20 on a club pack of pork chops, wrap a bunch in our vac sealer, and stick them in the freezer for future use. We have the means in order to store ingredients and have two freezers in our farm house and own a 14 acre property.

But we're the exception, not the rule in today's day and age. And guess what? I'll still order pizza and come home with that. Or get a rotisserie chicken because work sucked and I don't feel like cooking. And the fact that people like you and Tittyfrog genuinely care so fucking much about how other people spend their money and what they eat is remarkably pathetic.

And because I know they're going to read this comment too, to quote something they said...

The existence of $6 ready to eat roasters is seem some inherently good and worthy thing… but it isn’t when you start to ask why they cost so little.

When you are struggling to literally feel yourself, your kids, pay rent, fill your gas tank, and make ends meet paycheque to paycheque, you don't have the time or the energy to give a shit where the supply chain comes from. Some people are literally just trying to survive, and you talking down to people like that make you a fucking asshole.

Edit: Words.

Thanks. Yeah that's part of the point I'm trying to make.

But people don't see the world that way... they see premade food as some sort of normal thing. And ironically all the nutrionists and public health people straight up tell us that premade stuff is unhealthy and problematic in both terms of nutrition and cost. Cheap food is always full of additives and shitty stuff. Natural foods are not, but they cost more. Better food production practices and regulations, cost more, etc.

But people just want see the sticker price in front of their face and ignore all the things that go into that price and don't want to talk about them because acknowledging how the supply system works is 'trolling' because it makes them uncomfortable. The existence of $6 ready to eat roasters is seem some inherently good and worthy thing... but it isn't when you start to ask why they cost so little.

We increasingly live in this weird world were the notion of cooking your own healthy food is some form of class oppression and privileged or something. When what it does is give you way more control over what goes into your body and typically you eat less.