Wandering Adventure Party

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.

I also don’t like to waste food. Do you know what food savety means? Like, living in an area where hypermarkets killed all competition… to decide later that this location doesn’t create enough revenue and close the store… leaving people without a car in a situation where getting food is problematic…

I live in an european village and I do not have to drive 30 minutes to go to a hugh supermarket I can barely afford. I cross the road to go to a supermarket and bakery and once more for the local butcher. I work 40 hours and earn enough to go on vacation twice a year, own a car and two motorcycles… And there’s still money left to be put aside.

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.

Ah, OK. Here we don’t have Costco. Rotissery chicken are (mostly) sold from mobile rotissery trucks. This and Doener Kebap.

We are not pestered by US hypermarket chains here where I live. Our pendant would be REWE or EDEKA, Kaufland, Penny, Lidl or ALDI. Therefore I have no way to compare Costco chicken with the chicken from EDEKA/REWE/etc. Our supermarkets do seldome sell rotissery chicken. They leave that to food trucks that stand in their parking grounds.

Our rotissery chicken also do not come cold in a plastic bag, but fresh and warm in Aluminium foil and an insulated bag.

Do I sense some sarcasm here?

So, I should be happy not living in the “best country ever”?

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.

It was more about the videos giving tips how to safe money what made me wonder. And as an european I’m not in a position where I fear for my food savety.

This is the second time I see a video about rotissery chicken into a cheap meal… Is the US at a point where people are about to learn what it means to go hungry because their exploiters give a damn shit about them?