For people in a rush they are real food that is hot and ready. Grab it at the store, get a side dish, slice it up, and it’ll feed a family for a meal or more.
I think they’ve caught on because many couples have full time jobs, and want to eat something that isn’t total garbage. They also don’t feel like cooking or the mess.
There may be something to a general malaise driving these chicken behaviors, but we defunded the people that could study that.
That “people have fulltime jobs” and “don’t feel like cooking” arguments somehow baffles me.
I somehow have no problem with finding time to cook and I work full time too. My parents also worked full time and at some time built a house after working 8 hours and two children. I remember that maybe once in 6 months my parents bought precooked food and on every other evening we had home cooked meals far from garbage.
I work full time but after commuting etc I was coming home at 9 pm. Same with my sister but she had 12 hr shifts. (On paper, she works at a hospital and she’s always coming home late). Normal 9-5 is doable. The fuckass hours we have, not so much. I’d try though.
When you work long hours… Do you start late then? I mean, I was shopping for food in the morning when I was working shifts. So, when my shift started at 2pm or 10 pm I had plenty time before work to go shopping and plenty time to cook.
And I live in a country where most stores close at 8 pm nd are closed on sundays.
I can still cook. I worked 11-7, but had a 2 hr commute by bus. 1 hr if I was lucky and all the buses lined up. My sister worked 12 hr shifts at a hospital but she’d work extra due to patient issues so more like 14 hrs some days.
Like I said, I’d make an effort and usually I was fine. Id prep food on the weekend ahead of time.
For people in a rush they are real food that is hot and ready. Grab it at the store, get a side dish, slice it up, and it’ll feed a family for a meal or more.
I think they’ve caught on because many couples have full time jobs, and want to eat something that isn’t total garbage. They also don’t feel like cooking or the mess.
There may be something to a general malaise driving these chicken behaviors, but we defunded the people that could study that.
That “people have fulltime jobs” and “don’t feel like cooking” arguments somehow baffles me. I somehow have no problem with finding time to cook and I work full time too. My parents also worked full time and at some time built a house after working 8 hours and two children. I remember that maybe once in 6 months my parents bought precooked food and on every other evening we had home cooked meals far from garbage.
I work full time but after commuting etc I was coming home at 9 pm. Same with my sister but she had 12 hr shifts. (On paper, she works at a hospital and she’s always coming home late). Normal 9-5 is doable. The fuckass hours we have, not so much. I’d try though.
When you work long hours… Do you start late then? I mean, I was shopping for food in the morning when I was working shifts. So, when my shift started at 2pm or 10 pm I had plenty time before work to go shopping and plenty time to cook.
And I live in a country where most stores close at 8 pm nd are closed on sundays.
Still able to cook.
I can still cook. I worked 11-7, but had a 2 hr commute by bus. 1 hr if I was lucky and all the buses lined up. My sister worked 12 hr shifts at a hospital but she’d work extra due to patient issues so more like 14 hrs some days.
Like I said, I’d make an effort and usually I was fine. Id prep food on the weekend ahead of time.
So you do as I do sometimes. OK, I haven’t had a commute longer than 1 hour in a decade.
Somehow many people can’t cook… as in “burn water”, “able to use the microwave” or “cook by telefone”… instead of creating a meal themselfs.