My friend asked how often I got delivery. "More thna 5, less than 10." I answered. He was surprised to find out that was my total, ever. Probably just over ten these days, less than 15 for sure.

I grew up poor, am still poor, but my answer to food insecurity is meal prep and bulk buying.

I've personally never used one of those apps, and I don't intend to. But I'm a bit of an outlier for this kind of stuff. I could give my reasons, the response from 'normal' people would just be "yeah, but ..."

I wouldn't be surprised if "some" Australians are spending absurd amounts of money on... well... anything really. There's a lot of people in Australia, and so if you look for someone with a trait like that, you'll probably find someone. And I also wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people had allowed themselves to be deskilled in terms of meal organisation and food preparation to the point that they now are reliant on a service that has burrowed its way into their psyche. ... Not sure how widespread that is though.

De-paywalled link: https://archive.is/Emaug

Every few months we visit Melbourne to take the kids for a city trip. We order uber eats at the hotel because it's just easier than trying to visit a CBD restaurant with two little kids. 

I'm in Melbourne twice a week for work and I always go out and buy lunch. At home we have a pub that opens 3 nights a week, of course I'm buying lunch when I'm in the city. 

But I can't understand the thought processes people have outlined in the article. Someone just spending all day thinking about food and what they're going to order, that's fucking insane. Multiple food deliveries per day? What the fuck

I've only ordered uber eats when travelling for work (and the company paid), but even then it was a bad experience. Took about an hour to get delivered, and the food was mediocre and expensive.

I used to order somewhat frequently when I first moved to the city on a weekend before the pandemic and the prices became cooked. Going from a small city of 3 Chinese restaurants and one sushi place to an entire city you can order from was awesome and novel.

Gradually every other order just started getting messed up. I was home pissed one night and decided to order some food while gaming with some mates. It came hours late and Uber offered me like five bucks off my next order and that’s after bitching about it. That’s was pretty much the end for me. The food can arrive whenever, in whatever state and so long as it arrives, fuck you eat your hour cold slop. I can buy and/or make better junk food myself for far cheaper in most case. With one of their main competitors folding I doubt it’s gotten better.

It also felt like some of the stores didn’t want to do Uber. That management saw the dollar signs but then wouldn’t put more staff on Fri/Sat when the stores would get swamped with orders from boozers.

During lockdown I used them and booze delivery a lot. The big junk food companies suck you in with deals but the "food" is dog shit. Delete those apps, just use ones with local restaurants. Better for you and them.

Wild to me.

I'll stick to my poached chicken and salad.

Is it the spiders? Scorpion spiders flying all over the country. You better let somebody else to the shopping

There's probably something to this. I haven't touched a delivery app in quite a while, but I'd find it very surprising if they didn't employ some kind of dark patterns to keep users coming back.