Thankfully my mom was a worry wort about what we ate so eating out is a once a week thing for me. I avoid fast food and especially delivery(it's expencive) and I cook/prep at home. I almost never see Z at the store. All boomers or X
It's all foreigners and boomers at my local grocery store too. If I go to the nice, upscale grocery store that gives free cheese bread to the kids it's just boomers. I think one big issue with Zoomers and cooking is that we're often forced into little bugcaves or roommate situations that make it difficult to cook, since buying bulk staples and equipment/appliances is unwieldy for people cooking for 1 or 2 and storing it is not an option in a shared pantry-refrigerator.
My issue I have with cooking for myself here in the States is that all of our ingredients are portioned in the store for minimum 2 people and up to a family. I don't really like leftovers anymore, and so it's really hard to cook for myself when I don't want to try and repeat meals constantly or have leftovers. Mushrooms I don't even bother buying because I cannot go through them fast enough. I can't eat 8oz of portabella mushrooms that quickly, even though I probably should. I only stick to frozen veggies when cooking for myself now.
This is true. Decent cookware has also gotten expensive. I only use stainless and got a good new set for $500. Some kids parents never taught them how to cook well at all so the skills of blanching, burnishing, brining, sautéing are lost. Tiktok is helping but its still a learning curve that takes time to master. The glass stovetops found in shitty apartments doesn't help either.
Blanching is a waste of time and anybody who does it is gay.
Most of these guys seem to just be sharty people that get banned in like 2 months.
No, I think many of them just do not even know what it is.
I've seen peers have social media accounts as far back as middle school, it's something that's probably been drilled in for a long while. Some that grew up terminally online (like me, or almost any other zoomer that decided to make a KF account) still carried that sense of separating your real life from your online presence, and that's something that used to be reiterated even by YouTube back then. Coincidentally, that shifted around the time Google bought out YouTube, and it probably corresponds further to the increasing centralization of the internet into a handful of large apps and sites.
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I think this is true: Boomer TV was shit like Star Trek and other stuff so genuine we call it "camp" today. Xers were more cynical with the creative reigns, making media that was a bit more "self-aware." Post 9-11, pop culture took on a futher cynical aspect. This trend continued to (possibly) its critical mass with Avengers, where serious moments needed quips because flying men in leotards are silly, right? Everything rebooted for the Xoomer/Millenial trough is being deconstructed or subverted now. I'm making a sweeping generalization about decades of pop culture, but I do think you can map a pattern of writing that culminates in a generation that can't accept anything at face value.
This was long before Palantir, they're just the ones who have been openly honest about it. Same with any similar companies.
Grocery stores in Europe are generally pretty good, but if you can find a good farmer's market you're really chilling. People are generally nice if you approach with a smile and have a respectful tone, even if you don't speak the local language. Building a healthy rapport with the local community is always a huge plus in your favor if you're gonna live away from home for a while. I lived in the Netherlands as a student for a couple years and saved a lot just by being friendly with people in markets and thrift shops, especially the latter.
Z's experience is characterized often by the fact, not that we are upset that things are bad neccesarily, but rather, that people made them bad, and that they could be better. Sure the depression of the 30s was far worse, I understand that things could be worse, but things could be better too, and gen x especially refuses to consider that. Its incredibly aggravating to begrudge the poor state of affairs we find ourselves in, only to hear "well it could be worse" yeah no kidding it could be worse, but it could be better, and I know it could be better, because I saw older gens have it better
Ironically enough this is a sentiment that was also echoed in older gens.
I got kicked out of the house by my parents doing Covid and was living with a friend for like 9 months. And I couldn't find a way to help out. Financially, so I learned to cook really well.
It's no longer just Gen Z getting their brains fried from short-form content. I noticed a surprising number of Gen X people watching similar stuff. Pretty sad if you ask me.
My dad loves reading and will ramble on about the stupidity of Gen Z if provoked and even I have to try to convince him to read something instead of browsing X in the evenings. No one really is safe. But the first step is to be able to acknowledge that fact.
This was what lead me to drop out of the realm of YouTube creation entirely. I was friends with so many "creative visionary" types over the years... It was so crushing to realise that it never was about conveying a story or actually making something people would love out of the pure joy of it. It was about the idea of having an easy job that requires you to sit at your desk all day not needing to leave the house and being able to profit off what you view as no more than gullible apes that live online. They want to do it because they think it's easy and they would never dare to get their hands dirty. None of these people will admit that but Ive known many of them long enough to reassure the truth in this. Entertainers think they are gods and your only purpose is to worship them, when in reality they are sad people whose source of power (if they ever even manage to achieve it mine you) can be taken away with the snap of a finger. They don't think about that though and can only salivate at the idea of, at least temporarily, ascending to a plane higher than the plebs they believe they are too good for.
There is it’s called Zillenials
I'm definitely an older Gen Z, I remember my family only having an old Dell PC that was running Windows XP and had a couple TVs with Dish as a cable service back when it was actually decent. Didn't get a phone until Junior year of high school.