Anon explains zoomer post irony

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Guillaume-Francois@reddit

I remember people saying that both gen x and millenials were addicted to irony and refused to take anything seriously, opting instead instead to make things "bad on purpose" for fear of putting their best effort in only to still come up short. Likewise, I remember both being obsessed with simple, often unhealthy food (bacon, burritos, cheeseburgers, nachos, pizzas, tacos, so on). I think these are just traits of the young, inexperienced, insecure and broke.

Similarly, I remember a lot of both gen x and millenials vanishing straight up their own asses, becoming insufferable, pretentious cockheads right around the time they started taking things seriously and also shifting their dietary fixations towards more complicated, healthier fare right around the time they weren't broke and their metabolisms could no longer handle endless slop.

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Ihavetoleavesoon@reddit (OP)

You had me at bacon!

But yeah, they shifted straight into veganism/ my body is a temple.

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DinnerGuest2024@reddit

Okay, unc 😂😂😂

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Nutaholic@reddit

As always, despite complaining endlessly about boomers, millennials are the generation most like them.

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Embarrassed-Run-6291@reddit

With how zoomers and gen alpha act we should bring that back.

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Nutaholic@reddit

Lmao, the millennial morality police have arrived

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Embarrassed-Run-6291@reddit

You clearly haven't paid attention to how atrocious kids act nowadays. Kids need to be cuffed and disciplined.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

He had me in the first half, then he went way off base. He fails to recognize how much zoomers love hyper fixating on things and categorizing everything into its own neat box. Some of them love food, but not all of them are about cooking it themselves since that's more seen as a skill or hobby, not a fact of life.

I think a lot of people nowadays are guilty in over reliance on eating out, but I have seen some zoomers not be able to realize how buying 20 dollars of ingredients is cheaper than buying a single 10 dollar sandwich. Even with the time investment they think spending a minute ordering a sandwich is better than spending ten minutes once a week making sandwiches.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

I'm a millennial and I'll argue with you all day long about buying 20 bucks worth of ingredients vs. one sandwich. If I go the $20 route, I have to eat sandwiches for a week to make it "worth it." I don't want to eat 7 days of the same sandwiches. That sounds horrible. So, half of my ingredients just go into the trash because they're spoiled.

If I want to stay at home with no friends and min/max my food, okay, I guess. But as a human being who enjoys eating, no, I'm not just going to eat the same slop daily.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

Eating a homemade sandwich for one meal a day for a week, assuming you're using all $20 of ingredients that week is just under $3 a sandwich. Half the ingredients won't survive the week in the fridge? You do it takes weeks for bread and cheese to mold, even longer for condiments so you're only worrying about deli meat.

The alternative is you go out and buy a $10 sandwich eat day which is $70 a week. How is saving $50 a week horrible and not worth it? Having $200 dollars at the end of the month is worse than not having your daily sweet treat?

"As a human being that enjoys eating, no, I'm not just going to eat the same slop daily." How about you enjoy your own cooking and not make slop? That says a lot about your pampering and ability to feed yourself, not just your financial planning.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

I eat one meal a day, maybe two. So that shit is going to be nothing but sandwiches all week. I may want a sandwich one day. Tacos the next. Spaghetti the next. That's the variety that makes life worth living. If I go buy all of the ingredients for tacos, spaghetti, and sandwiches in bulk to "save money," eventually I need to eat the shit purchased in bulk to make it worth it.

And when I go out with friends Friday night and eat out? Guess what's rotting away? Ingredients for sandwiches, tacos, and spaghetti.

Even if I enjoyed my own cooking (I don't really, I can only make a few things well), to actually save money, it becomes eating slop. A big pot of chili, even if it was great night one, by day 5 makes me want to neck myself because I've been eating nothing but chili.

You're still talking about just rearranging ingredients at the end of the day. Making a chicken sandwich and then the next day making a chicken salad is just the same thing without the bread.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

You can't be serious thinking buying in bulk isn't cost effective. You know how you spice things up? With spices, sauces, and other things that cost very little since you're spreading the value out across weeks. You should know this if you know how to cook. And guess what? Hypothetically buying and using $20 each for spaghetti, sandwiches, tacos is still cheaper than buying a $10 sandwich everyday.

It's not anyone's responsibility other than your own to teach your how to cook while being cost effective. You want to have shrimp one night? Cool, save the shells and make shrimp stock to flavor other things with. That's a soup base you can keep in your freezer forever next to your chili that you can reheat next week.

I implore you to do something simple since you eat one to two meals a day. There has to be something you can buy in bulk that you don't mind eating everyday, even if it's going to take you a second to learn to enjoy it. I used to hate overnight oats since I didn't like cold oatmeal, but I got used to it and never get tired of it. I definitely get burnt out eating buttered pasta or peanut butter. Just to do quick math, I'm seeing a 10 lb box of oatmeal priced at $13. Before we consider the pinch of salt / sugar / cinnamon you might want and the milk you probably want to use, that's about 113 days where you can have half a cup of oatmeal that you don't even have to cook for 11.5 cents.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

Buying in bulk is boring and depressing. I won't argue that if I could just settle down and eat oats every day I'd save some money... but then I'd just be eating fucking oats. Can you not understand how that's a bleak existence? A little extra money in the pocket isn't worth despising every meal I eat.

The cost argument is variable. If I'm buying a $10 sandwich every day, sure... I should just get sandwich ingredients to make at home. But when buying in bulk you have to COMMIT to eating the same thing day after day, and planning out meals. There's no room for spontaneity or having a craving. Every night is a meticulous "I have to eat this before it goes bad" problem.

And once you start costing out what went bad, you're not saving that much money unless you really really focused on only eating at home and not caring about much variety.

And that's one of the other issues... room. Lots of people live in an apartment with one fridge and maybe a roommate. There's no space to freeze your "shrimp stock and chili" for later.

I don't want to eat the same thing every day. Life is depressing enough.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

Listen to yourself, saving money is boring and depressing? Forget about changing your spending habits finding food you like, you need to do cognitive reframing. That's your main problem here, saving money and having a routine makes you depressed. You aren't thinking about that steak dinner or new TV you're not saving for.

I understand having your sweet tweet once a week, but eating to be nourished is bleak? Do you think body builders are eating chicken and broccoli everyday and are depressed because of it? I wish I could add nuts and seeds to my oatmeal but even if we're bumping that up to 20 cents a day over a $7 egg mcmuffin you're saving a ton if money. Not that they're perfectly comparable since the calories are different, but the yearly difference is $73 worth of oatmeal versus $2,555 worth of mcmuffin. That's a new PC you're not having by enjoying a breakfast you make for yourself everyday.

You don't have to eat the same thing everyday buying in bulk. You can if you really don't mind it which is why it works for me with oatmeal, but even if I got sick of oatmeal it's not going bad in a week. You're still not entertaining the idea of freezing or getting nonperishables. Freeze your bagels and keep your canned tuna in the cabinet, save them for a month and they'll still be there. Once you buy them you aren't locked in to eat them that week. And again since you glossed over it, you can spend a few dollars on sauces and spices that you can create novelty with. Try barbecue sauce with your tuna instead of mayo, or just put in some oregano. Unless you really are throwing out your entire container of oregano every week because everything in your house turns to mold after a day apparently.

Do you not have room in your freezer for two cups of shrimp stock? Do you not have room anywhere where you live that you can keep bulk oatmeal that isn't a muddy puddle? Sounds like you're not seeing the bigger picture and you're telling yourself you can't when again, all of this is in your power to change.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

Dude, listen to yourself too. Yes, I think bodybuilders who are eating nothing but chicken and broccoli every day are depriving themselves of something nice for really weird goals no one gives a shit about. That shit doesn't sound fun or happy.

I can only have so many new TVs or PCs. And if I'm only eating at home to save money, I won't be having that steak dinner. It's more oatmeal time to sAvE mOnEy.

You keep saying "every day." It's not every day I'd have an Egg McMuffin. It's a random Tuesday I'd have a McMuffin once a month, tops. Instead of buying 12 eggs, an 8 pack of english muffins, ham slices, and a package of kraft singles for $20 that I'm never going to finish to satisfy one craving, I spent $3 on a sandwich.

I have sauces and shit, but dumping BBQ sauce on my tuna vs. oregano doesn't change that it's still the same basic meal... expiring protein and a bad sauce/spices. It's still just dumping old sauce on old food.

It's not like I don't eat leftovers or whatever, but pretending like oatmeal with milk or honey is some wonderful new experience, or mayo and oregano makes it any different that you're still eating canned tuna is laughable. I have a stocked spice cabinet and plenty of condiments, but I'm not going to buy a case of ground beef and pretend I'm not still just eating a cheeseburger if I put slightly different stuff on top. I'm going to be tired of cheeseburgers.

No, I don't have space in my freezer for two cups of shrimp stock if I'm freezing all kinds of things for "later." You know what a normal freezer looks like, right? We can't post images here, but a freezer for most normal people with a fridge in an apartment or shared home has enough room for maybe a frozen pizza/lasagna, a few frozen meals, a bag of frozen veggies, ice cube tray... that's kinda it. I'm absolutely never getting around to defrosting used shrimp tails.

I'm guessing you live in the middle of nowhere and have a basement with reach in freezers or something. If that's the case, it's a different argument, but I would also argue that people don't want to keep or eat a big bag of bulk oatmeal to eat every day. I own a three bedroom home but don't want to eat nothing but oats and something covered in a different condiment every day.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

Yeah I don't know what to tell you. You're at the point where you're saying eating healthy and exercising is a "weird goal that no one gives a shit about." Do I really have to explain to someone who claims to be at least 29 that caring for your body is normal and obviously body builders care about eating right? You're so cooked, there's no getting through to you. You so stuck in your ways, you're finding every excuse so that you can shit your money away.

Your life is miserable because of your actions. My fridge is 2.5 cubic feet, I make that work.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

I didn't post in this thread for advice. If you have different priorities in life, no problem. If eating for you is just fuel for a different goal, also no problem.

I've had high-paying jobs, and they're stressful. I want to eat a nice meal at the end of the night, not whatever I can rummage from the fridge. It's the one chance to enjoy the fruit of my labor. There's no time to enjoy life in a lot of jobs.

Best of luck out there.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

All you had to say is I have a high paying job and I understand I can save a lot of money by eating on a better budget. Instead you said the lamest excuses of it's boring, depressing, and weird. Even still I love how you show you're not paying attention by ignoring the fact you're planning your meals, not finding scraps. Also you really don't have hobbies outside of eating? Your life is sad because you don't know what you're missing.

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Tripleberst@reddit

And this pretty well sums up a lot of millennials and zoomers broke ass behavior. Young people making shit wages that are satisfied to throw away the little money they have for a tiny amount of convenience.

I'm not saying this is you necessarily but watching Caleb Hammer on YouTube has opened my eyes to this.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

I was thinking about him when I wrote my comment. Very eye opening stuff, I like the one with the single mother who dropped 10k on producing a song and spent nearly a decade getting a PhD. Any criticism he gave her she shrugged off because he doesn't know how hard it is to be a single mother, and that behavior is exactly why she's ruinous with her finances.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

God forbid someone try to enjoy something as small as a little variety in their meals while wageslaving. Gotta hustle and grind and be a millionaire if you don't want to eat out of the same pot of chili for 5 days straight, I guess.

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blooblooboom@reddit

You can use the ingredients to make something else than just sandwiches.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

It's still just the same ingredients. And what else am I using bread slices for besides sandwiches?

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blooblooboom@reddit

Possibilities are endless for the ingredients. And you can use the bread to do toasts, grilled cheese sandwiches, or even dry it, blend, some spices and you got a ready to go batter or coating for deep frying or something. It's not that hard to figure out tbh.

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IGNSolar7@reddit

You're literally still talking sandwiches. What am I going to deep fry? I have all of these sandwich ingredients to get rid of. Deep fry my turkey slices?

If you're a single person this shit just goes to waste. It's okay to admit it.

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Eonir@reddit

You have never tried making food if that's the conclusion you've arrived at.

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Ihavetoleavesoon@reddit (OP)

Well that's only seven minutes so yeah, that's less.

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FinancialElephant@reddit

This whole discussion makes me mad for some reason. I must be a boomer

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Atlas-and-Pbody@reddit

Anon discovers angsty teenagers. Zoomer culture will change as much as millenials' has

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BitingSatyr@reddit

Zoomers are like 30 now

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nullcharstring@reddit

Yeah, Boomers ate bologna and processed cheese on wonder bread and liked it, else they got their head cuffed.

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sharedisaster@reddit

Zoomers love saying ‘glizzy’ more than actually eating one.

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Ihavetoleavesoon@reddit (OP)

Glizzy

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Mohwi@reddit

In other words, millennials ruined enjoying things, much like every single thing they’ve touched

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ConvertedHorse@reddit

ironic asceticism he's right

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Avec-Tu-Parlent@reddit

Neither Zoomers, Millennials or Anon for that matter understand that Food is, besides giving you energy, also has the capability to unite people together during the whole process. So when Anon talks about how good the steak that he made alone for himself from ingredients bought from the grocery store is, it is no surprise that this whole thing becomes not about the food but rather about his masturbatory impulse to appear better than other people.

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nythscape@reddit

Anon has autism is gay and has aids. The holy trifecta of 4chan

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Idiot_of_Babel@reddit

Disaggree

Counterexample: high effort shitpost

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Triglycerine@reddit

He's out of line but he's right.

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Ihavetoleavesoon@reddit (OP)

I hate it when they're right.

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