We are no longer the main protagonists :(
Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success
Surp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck, what about millennials? Those guys been fucked even longer.
mojo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Captain Phillips meme,
Millennials: “Look at me. I am the boomer now.”
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like “Boomer” has lost all genuine meaning and really has just become “anyone over 40.” Pretty soon Gen X will be the new Boomers and Gen Z and Gen Alpha will pivot to blindly loathing them and blaming them for climate change and the myriad atrocities of capitalism.
hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 8 months ago
I think it still has meaning. Just not the same meaning it had 10ish years ago. “Boomer” has transcended description of a particular generation and now refers to a general set of real or perceived attitudes and behaviors.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s because we are starting to fill their spots so they are being careful now.
GreyDawn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Calm down, there is plenty of fucking for everyone.
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Our groceries cost as much as ordering in food did 5 years ago.
We barely did as it was too expensive, the future needs some drastic adjustment otherwise some bad shit is going to happen.
JonEFive@midwest.social 8 months ago
Bad shit is already happening. How many more wars need to flare up, how many more inches does the sea need to rise, how many more acres of forest need to burn, how many more mass shootings, how many more people need to reach a point where working a full time job isn’t enough to cover rent… I could easily go on. This isn’t a future thing anymore. This is all happening now.
Psythik@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I know, right? Millennial, here. I eat out more often than I cook. I should probably be doing what the Zoomers are.
hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 8 months ago
Millennials are still struggling. It’s just that this article wasn’t about us.
Misconduct@startrek.website 8 months ago
I make my own bread now 😭
Kase@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ay that’s pretty cool! Is it hard? Do you do it for fun, or cause it’s cheaper? The crying emoji has be leaning toward the latter, but I thought I’d ask
Misconduct@startrek.website 8 months ago
It was originally for fun but it turned out to be so easy that I just do it now. It’s insanely cheap if you buy flour in bulk or get it on sale. I started with an easy recipe called something like “40 minute hamburger buns” and kinda went from there. You can also freeze dough which is nice if I want to make bread for the week but still have it be fresh. I just plop it on the counter and toss it in the oven once it’s done defrosting and rising a bit.
If anyone takes anything away from this comment I hope it’s that fresh bread is very easy to make and so worth it. If you don’t have bread pans just make it into a lump and bake up a bread round or smaller lumps for rolls. If you don’t have yeast but you do have flour you can make a starter out of it that’ll replace yeast in recipes. It takes a bit but you can keep it alive forever by just giving it more flour and your bread will eventually develop its own unique flavor.
Bread is such an accessible and forgiving food that anyone can learn to make. I don’t know how it got a reputation for being difficult to make in the first place. Kneading kinda sucks but it’s just a few minutes out of the day and you get bread!
stewsters@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I’m doing better off than most of the people I knew growing up, but I too have been looking at buying the cheapest of everything.
Great Value brand is getting the majority of my purchases these day. Just looked at my cabinet shelf, 18 GV brand items, 2 others (maruchan, rice a roni).
Also cut back on any drinks that don’t come out of my faucet (excluding coffee grounds and milk for the coffee).
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Edging up to that 4th “once in a lifetime” economic collapse.