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There’s more than a thousand comments on the NYT article, that can be read without having to use X (but I suppose you need a NYT account?) Gift link here:
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The sad thing about the guy with the young kids who is ordering in all the time is - his kids will probably never grow up to enjoy cooking. I feel lucky that my teen finds cooking a relaxing way to wind down and create something delicious for himself (and sometimes his friends and family) - I hope he learned that by watching his own parents take the time to cook for him no matter how tired or run down they were at the time. It’s a matter of health, wellbeing and economy.
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Between this and the review for the $170 peking duck place it makes me think the NY Times is being edited by Marie Antoinette.
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That’s some boss class trolling, right there.
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The Williams Sonoma cutting board is a nice touch.
Also bro needs to learn how to properly hold chopsticks.
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l have a NYT account. I don’t read the online comments for NYT articles, or comments in other newspapers, too often.
I enjoy some witty comments and memes on Twitter and some posts on Reddit more than the NYT article comments. Probably more than the NYT articles too, most of the time! 
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Have you seen NYT Pitchbot? it’s hilarious satire.
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Agree that it’s dumb unless you are high income.
There are so, so many prepared food options these days - frozen entrees, deli salads, hot and cold self-serve food bars. Still more costly than cooking from scratch but maybe a happy medium if you can’t or don’t want to cook. I broke my collarbone 2 weeks ago, a recent dinner was grilled chicken, scalloped potatoes, and roasted green veg all from the refrigerated section at trader joes. 2 dinners for $25, all thrown in the microwave with my good arm. Just picked up roasted potatoes, greens, and tofu for lunch plus coconut rice and chicken shawarma for later from a different grocery store, $12/lb isn’t too bad.
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I guess it wouldn’t be easy to troll with them if their content didn’t scream entitled complacency quite so loudly.
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their work is exquisite
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$700 bucks a WEEK? Hire a private chef, or meal prep service.Eating all that take out food…sounds cool at first. Wonder if those kids ever had an old fashion home cooked meal…meatloaf or pork chops.
P.s. I think it’s time for Gen Z to rebel TF out of things…
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The funny thing, at least in densely populated parts of Toronto, is that I’m finding many of the restaurants relying on DoorDash and UberEats aren’t the better places for better quality takeout. I have been disappointed with the pick-up meals I’ve placed through DoorDash at most of the restaurants in my neigbourhood.
The restaurants I like more, that offer better take-out, tend to use Ambassador or Square POS and I pick it up myself. Some offer DoorDash, FanTuan, Skip the Dishes, Ritual or UberEats, in addition to their preferred POS service.
Some of the places using their POS (Point of Service , not the other POS ) only offer take-out on less busy days or at specific meal times. For instance, take-out at lunch but not at dinner.
The only problem I have had lately is that I order ahead and pay through their POS and the restaurant hasn’t received the order. This happened to me on Saturday night. I don’t know if that was really a software problem or a human error at the restaurant.
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On Sunday night, I decided I would buy gnocchi at my local butcher shop, rather than pay $25-$28 CAD before tax and tip for a single order of gnocchi at a decent, local midrange Trattoria. I live in Little Italy, which isn’t too Italian anymore, and it borders on Little Portugal which is less Portuguese than it once was. That said, there are still a fair number of low to midrange places serving take-out Italian and Portuguese food nearby.
I was hungry when I went shopping. I bought my gnocchi (frozen, enough for several dinners) and some Gorgonzola, then kept walking to buy some groceries.
I passed a local low end Portuguese spot, a churrasco place run by a Mom and Pop, that closes at 7 pm each night, that had a hot table on Sundays, with several seafood options. A lot of Portuguese Canadians eat seafood on the weekend, so these specials reflect the local demand.
Not too many hot tables are still in business in Toronto these days, and most are in suburbs with a different demographic. I decided to support the little guy, and freeze my purchased gnocchi for later.
I purchased 2 filets of fried sole, a small container of pork and clams (around $20), and a small container of rice from the hot table. This came to $38 CAD, and the place only took cash or debit. I got home and ate a bit. The pork was the only good thing I purchased, and most clams weren’t open. The sole had an off taste. It would have been pre frozen fish, not too good. I don’t usually throw out food but I did on Sunday. I froze the extra leftover pork, which was good, for later.
Live and learn. I guess there’s not much point to this story other than Buyer Beware, and Food is Getting Expensive, even without buying it through DoorDash.
Exactly. In a perfect world, we’d all have the time, leisure, talent, patience, and cash to lovingly throw together comfort meals for our fam/partner/ourselves every single night.
But the world is everything but, and shit happens 
Also, sorry about your collarbone, ouch. Currently in the same boat with just one arm, which makes meal prep a challenge / almost impossible or, at the very least, terribly frustrating if I were on my own.
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This is related to the article that I posted about a couple days ago, and illustrates the point perfectly.
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It’s been awhile since my kids were kids, and I was working long hours then, but we rarely had take out or order in and it took their partners to get them interested in something other than ordering in.
I can’t help but think where you live, and what delivery and eat out food you have access to plays a huge role in dining choices. We have very limited eat out choices where my daughter grew up, but this changed drastically when she lived in NY, as did her access to groceries.
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I should have linked to your thread. Thanks for linking to it 
I didn’t want to hijack your thread with Twitter replies or screenshots of memes /GIFs posted in response to the article, which I find amusing or interesting.
