1) Americans are lazy. Most don't exercise regularly and don't want to leave their homes, which leads to...
2) They want everything delivered to their door because they're too lazy to get off their fat asses and buy a meal (and even then, it's from the drive-thru), let alone cook something healthy from scratch. |
And the predictable tantrum happened, right in schedule. |
+1. Even at a budget hotel, you could eat fruit and cereal/oatmeal. Not great, but not terrible for a day or two. |
It's not wrong, though. |
Actually, it is. And it's the kind of narrative that's preventing us from doing better |
Crude...but this is true for a LOT of the population. And some many stores and restaurants have shifted from covid; not needing to move your body out of your house, or move at all, for anything is easier than ever. |
Oh, thank you. I apologize. I hope I didn't give the impression that I meant to exclude anyone. In saying "like we did" I meant as children of people who had limited budgets and ate the same staples over and over again. A comedian from the Philippines described the huge sacks of rice his mother bought and how they had it every day. I am a black expat Southerner. |
But is OP someone without a working kitchen? Is she someone working three jobs without benefits? I doubt it. She doesn’t have a excuse. |
+1 Wildly wrong, and a mentality that stops the change needed. |
You are delusional. In no way in this wrong. We all know several people like this. You do too. Even reading here is proof this is happening all over. Not too long ago, on this forum, some lady posted a rant about having to wait in her car too long for her Smoothie King order. I guess they were so busy they were way backed up. So yeah, lots and lots of people are putting in orders and waiting in their cars to be delivered their 1000 calorie smoothie. Just an example..but you get the picture. |
OP here. I have a full time job and I have a child that has to be taken to activities after school. I have to get up at 6AM and make DC a healthy lunch, then I make myself lunch, a dinner. That's a lot of cooking. I don't have time to make homemade bread and my own healthy version of ketchup. We're not Amish. The difference is in other countries it's easy and convenient to find healthy, delicious food outside the home. In US it's practically impossible. Can you persevere and eat healthy in spite all that? Sure. But how many of you can? 20%? And at what cost? How many women quit careers because they don't have time to take care of kids? And now they have to bake bread too in order for their families to be healthy? Do you see how absurd it is and how wonderful our life would be if food industry was regulated? |
And why aren't those inexpensive healthy food options at school? Why can't school cooks learn to cook? If parents let their kids down, why does the government? +100 If we can cook, why can't school cooks learn how to cook? |
This response was to something that was very clearly not about OP but instead a general commentary on food quality in the US. |
I just want to add that we need be ALARMED about all this. In addition to terrible American diet we have disastrous medical system. You add these two together and the country will collapse.
I live in the South, not in a big city. You can't find a primary doctor here because most of them don't accept new patients. An appointment with a specialist has 2 months wait time. Last week we had to go to ER. OMG, our ERs don't have capacity to deal with health crisis. They're already full, on a regular Monday or Tuesday. The wait is up to 6 hours. And we hardly have any Covid cases. The idea of them being able to handle a pandemic is laughable. There are ALREADY not enough doctors and nurses in rural areas and smaller cities. And with this poor diet things are only going to get worse, a lot worse. We are basically destroying our country while the corporations get rich at the expense of our health. |
It is all just part of evolution. The fittest and smartest will survive. |