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[quote=Anonymous]Think of a meal, like meatloaf or par Thai. Google it. You will get 10000 different recipes, some terrible, some okay, but who has any idea?  Ask ChatGPT, and they will give you a recipe that includes Elmer’s glue.

So many young adults are faced with this infinite landscape of options for even picking a recipe, let alone the dozens of options at a typical grocery store.

The meal services short circuit the paradox of choice. You get a selection of meals, pretty distinct and curated, and they do all the other “selecting” for you: recipe, ingredients. You act as a mindless automaton.

This is partly a factor of the “things your mom used to do for you” element of tech bro culture.  But also the drop in SAHW, who used to get recipe ideas from magazines and trade them at PTA meetings — a much more curated choice.

A good recipe website like Epicurious or a mailing list would help a lot in curating recipes, but people aren’t going to spend real money on recipes, when there are so many “free” on the internet. Hence the move to additional services with hopefully more lock in and room for profit. But i think none of these services make money right?[/quote]

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