Eh.  IMHO he knows more than he's alluding to.  The one-handed egg cracking was the giveaway.  You learn that method in cooking school, or from a mom or dad that knows what they're doing in the kitchen.

The whisk and steel scratched teflon appeared tardish but by Sailor's Shenanagins, you're right. The whole mess was over cooked.

Still and all, if fast food doesn't croak our peasant class before they reach retirement, this nation's fucked.

sofaking wrote:

choad wrote:

The whisk and steel scratched teflon appeared tardish but by Sailor's Shenanagins, you're right. The whole mess was over cooked.

Still and all, if fast food doesn't croak our peasant class before they reach retirement, this nation's fucked.

It's so counter-intuitive. You'd think that poorer people would be the ones to stay home and cook, but they're not. Perhaps their inability to make a menu and follow the directions of a recipie correlates with their inability to find a well-paying gig.

The culture of the poor puts a premium on living in the moment, not so much learning from the past, and certainly not planning for the future.  With everything (in their lives) so chaotic and unpredictable, it's understandable, but it certainly does make it easier for the rest of us to hate them for their "lack of industry".  It's not just crime that keeps supermarkets out of these neighborhoods--with so many not having a car, they just take the goddamn shopping carts home and abandon them in their apartment courtyards--and, as you've noticed, a lack of planning for the future makes shopping for ingredients a waste of time.  Thus, the convenience stores and bodegas littering the landscape of crappy neighborhoods will typically stock single-serving, ready-to-eat type meals like Lunchables, tv dinners, candy, and beer.

Oh.  But still.

whiskytangofoxtrot wrote:

The culture of the poor puts a premium on living in the moment... Thus, the convenience stores and bodegas littering the landscape of crappy neighborhoods will typically stock single-serving, ready-to-eat type meals like Lunchables, tv dinners, candy, and beer.

There's a lot to that. When I was doing social services work, I frequently cooked dinner for the kids at the runaway shelter where I worked. We'd eat family style, sitting around the dining room table which was a great opportunity to talk to the kids and draw them out.

I remember, distinctly, one kid telling me after finishing dinner "That was nice. I've never done that before."

"Done what?," I asked.

"Had dinner at a table like that."