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No one cooks anymore: it's a disgrace

  • 25-01-2009 11:12pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭


    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food.

    well, that's complete bollox anyway

    here, take a read of this forum

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=610


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    true. but people still cook in the rest of the country. this place is very dublin based you see.

    A typical Dub will pay for some ridiculously overpriced ready meal in a 'convenience store' by their apartment, bring it up to the microwave, look at it confused if it refuses to work and then call the ESB on their iPhone 2 seconds after they realise there's a powercut.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    i can cook, but i only cook if i'm not starving.. if i'm starving, take away will fill my belly quicker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    Home Ec?




    Its because these women are getting mighty used to this liberation ma lark. A few knuckle sandwich's should sort that out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    Generalisations... you do that much? You too towel? Generalise much?

    I cook, my girlfriend cooks, a lot of my mates cook. My point? You are wrong. There are more options available than when you were a kid it seems.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    I can cook ... and I do cook.

    nothing better than a lovely fillet steak made the way you like it - cut as thick as you want it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    Just finished watching that show about the fat kid on e4 huh?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    jbl123 wrote: »
    No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    Hasn't made me fat, and I've been eating crap food like that for donkeys years due to being too lazy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    3 posts and you're ranting?

    Students living on pot noodles is the least of your worries.

    Search function, recession / Stephen / Mary Harney / Cowen. Let yourself go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I cook, not very well but I can whip up something decent enough. Shame on you OP, shame on you! :mad:*nose in the air*


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Generalisations... you do that much? You too towel? Generalise much?

    I cook, my girlfriend cooks, a lot of my mates cook. My point? You are wrong. There are more options available than when you were a kid it seems.

    +1


    This faptroll trying to make me guilty for my Friday night splurge on Dominos....Screw you man, you dont know....YOU DONT KNOW what its like...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I cook all the freakin time! So do most people I know. My flatmates making an omelette there and another made some veggie soup from scratch the other day. Don't generalise :mad:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    What are ya talking about OP?
    The shower in the Dail have been cooking things for years!

    Seriously though. Wifey and I cook all the time. Once in a while we take a break and order in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Check the Lidl Asian specials this week.

    http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20092510.p.ChickenReadyMeals

    Could Cook, Why Cook?! :p


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food.

    Yeah it's all fake ethnic stuff like pasta, stir frys and haute cuisine. Gone are the days of bacon and spuds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    I think it's a digrace how everyone gets outraged on behalf of other people nowadays.

    If someone wants to live on a diet ofburgers everyday what the **** has it to do with anyone else. I'm sure everyone could find some aspect of ther life that could be improved, can all the moaners please fup off and sort out that part of theirs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    jbl123 wrote: »
    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    Jaysis it seems that teachers have to do everything now! What about parents maybe imparting some of their knowledge?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Jev/N wrote: »
    Jaysis it seems that teachers have to do everything now! What about parents maybe imparting some of their knowledge?

    And god forbid people actually take responsibility for their own actions.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Jev/N wrote: »
    Jaysis it seems that teachers have to do everything now! What about parents maybe imparting some of their knowledge?

    Jeasus - don't mention "teachers" - we'll start the grumps off again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Jev/N wrote: »
    Jaysis it seems that teachers have to do everything now! What about parents maybe imparting some of their knowledge?

    Thats hippy talk.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    themadchef wrote: »
    3 posts and you're ranting?

    3 Posts and 2 Threads.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055471325

    OPs not very forthcoming in his/her replies.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Stekelly wrote: »
    If someone wants to live on a diet ofburgers everyday what the **** has it to do with anyone else.

    Yes, but it does put extra pressure on the health care system.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭deecom


    I cook, love to cook in fact! And so does my OH so there! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭blanco


    I think now, more men are cooking more than ever.

    In fact, I cook nearly every night just to show her how it should be done properly...
    No matter how hard she tries, she still makes an arse of the washing up. And, I have to show how it's done also. Bless her.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Stekelly wrote: »
    I think it's a digrace how everyone gets outraged on behalf of other people nowadays.

    If someone wants to live on a diet ofburgers everyday what the **** has it to do with anyone else. I'm sure everyone could find some aspect of ther life that could be improved, can all the moaners please fup off and sort out that part of theirs.

    It is not an aspect it is practically the entire point, if you take sex and world domination out of the equation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    I love the way bad journalists "cook up" lazy stories by combining a TV programme that's topical with an infusion of opinions of your typical Irish 18-49 year old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Biggins wrote: »
    Jeasus - don't mention "teachers" - we'll start the grumps off again!

    :(

    The simplest and tastiest dinner of all is Spuds, Clonakilty sausages and Bachelor beans.

    And pass the butter Andre.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭thermo66


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.
    Its nothing to do with not having the knowledge to cook, people are too bloody lazy including myself sometimes so opt for overpriced takeaways. I've cut back on takeaways lately and definitely notice the money i'm saving. Takeaways are very tempting but the prices are ridiculous in most places and often not very nice. Go and make a toasted cheese sandwich people, you and your wallet will feel better for it!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I love cooking actually, and I cannot remember the last time I got a take away. Honest. Any time I get one is when I am hungover and I can't be arsed to cook. That is very very seldomn though.

    When I was younger I wanted to become a chef, but was too concious of it being a womans job. (Complete crap I know, but I was young)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Still no input from the OP?
    There's a surprise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Mr. Frost


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    That's just stupid. It's up to their parents/themselves to make sure they're eating right. Yes, they can be educated to a degree in school about healthy eating, but giving it another class (home ec?) is silly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    jbl123 wrote: »
    It seems these days younger people don't cook real food. It's just takeaway crap or convenience food that goes in the microwave. No wonder everyone is getting fatter. :(

    I think serious cooking classes should be part of mandatory education. Not everyone has to be a gourmet chef, but they do need to learn to look after themselves and their famlies properly, part of which is cooking wholesome meals...Rant over.

    Jamie Oliver, is that you?


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