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Are Gen Z having a universal "idk how to cook" problem or is that just a minority? And for people who arent good with meal prep (or dont have time), what do y'all even eat? Those Microwavable meals? (piefed.ca)
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Okay maybe this isnt the best demographics here but like I mean as in if you know someone who's Gen Z, do they have a "idk how to cook" issue?

(Please don't be like "omg its easy, how could you not know" in the comments, be nice in the comments okay ๐Ÿ™ˆ)

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[โ€“] 30 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Fun fact - Throughout much of recorded human history, there is evidence that much of the human population has relied on centralized food services and kitchens.

Not knowing how to cook is not as uncommon as people seem to think.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 day ago* (4 children)

    That seems strange, do you remember where you read that? My understanding was that until one or two hundred years ago (like somewhere between our grandparents their great grandparents, depending on where they were in the world), virtually everyone was a subsistence farmer or hunter-gatherer. You're saying most of these people couldn't have prepared what they found/farmed without someone there to do it for them? :o

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 day ago

    This isn't about subsistence farmers but urban populations.
    For example, in medieval European cities, poor people didn't have space for kitchens in their home, so they went outside to get hot food. The main options where buying prepared street food or buying raw ingredients and having a someone bake them into a pie for you.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 hours ago*

    Yeah, it seems likely that even if a longhouse had one big kitchen where the whole clan prepared their maize, the skills to run it would have been fairly evenly distributed. Maybe in only one gender, or even a subset of one gender, but if there's 200 of you and you're always together, not much will be secret. Ditto for a bunch of peasants on one manor in Europe.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    Farming and gathering have been dominant until industrial revolutions took place, and set us on path of urbanization. However, towns and cities have existed since thousands of years. They would have bakeries and pubs. Gobeklitepe that existed ~9000 BCE is the oldest discovered so far. Egyptian pyramids would have been impossible without centralized kitchens.

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