I don’t get it and some people have tried explaining but it seems to ultimately boil down to “I just don’t like/want to” which to me is incredibly insufficient. These people would rather throw away perfect food even when they made it themselves. Leaving out certain exceptions that don’t keep well, many dishes can even taste better as leftovers while others can be combined to form entirely new dishes.
Edit: to those asking, this is about several people in my life who throw out a lot of food because they don’t leftovers and when I’ve asked them about it I’ve felt that they don’t really give good answers. These are people who afaik don’t have eating disorders since they eat normally but will not do takeaway at restaurants or save extra portions of a meal they’ve cooked.
Not eating leftovers is wack but what really irritates me was these bourgie friends I used to have that would order a big ass plate of food, eat like a third of it, and not bring it home. Absolutely insane, I always took all their food when I ate with them lol
This is definitely the type of person who I’m mostly talking about. Orders a $20 entrée, eats a few bites and leaves the rest. It wouldn’t bother me at all if they said they didn’t like it or they didn’t feel well or something but it seems like that’s not the case with several people I know. This however brings up another point where there is a massive aversion to sharing plates with other people.
I’ve had people who bought food for themselves or I bought food for them and they don’t finish it and just throw it away. And I’m like :walter-breakdown: why the fuck did you get it if you were full? Like okay, maybe it’s disgusting in which case you shouldn’t force yourself to eat it. But 95% of the time it’s “I’m too full.”
I once bought a meal for an ex after watching a movie and I watched her throw half of it away and I tried very hard to not frown.
This is why I’m not against restaurants charging you a fee for leftovers you’re not willing to finish or take home.
Some people absolutely need to have different food for every meal but my question is why?
Meanwhile I’m cooking a massive pot of beans, and that + a salad is my lunch every day of the week :bean:
My mom cooks and is often irritated when my dad or siblings eat junk food like frozen fast food or some shit from a chain restaurant. I tell her to just not cook lol. They’re grown adults, they can make their own decisions. And she just says “who’s gonna cook if I don’t?” And I just say “who cares? Just make yourself food. When was the last time they made anything for you?” And she just doesn’t respond after
Not gonna lie. If I’m ever married and my wife and children never do shit for me I’m probably gonna divorce her, but if I can’t for whatever reason then I just simply won’t do anything and tell them family I’d a group effort and I’m not a butler. Simple as.
My parents both worked minimum wage jobs while in in debt before I was 10. By the time I was 20, they both got better jobs and probably had $100k in assets. If my mom didn’t go to prison and my dad didn’t die, they would probably be multi-milionaires by the time I would have been 30.
I never knew video games until my cousin gave me their old sega genesis. My dad was more interested in it than me. Our family’s first computer was used. It was too old for the previous owner to bother selling it. My first computer was a frankenstein of spare parts. I remember shoplifting and scavanging. My dad didn’t like it, but otherwise I had almost no jewelry. I remember asking classmates for tampons when I wasn’t even on my period.
I figured out I was in the poorer half of the school. Not even the worst off. My parents never threw food away. Never bought anything frivolously. I saw waste first hand as kids who actually paid money for their school lunches would poor out their milk as pranks and throw away the relatively healthy remains then spend obscene amounts of money on salty/sugary vending machine snacks/sodas.
It wasn’t until my first job as a waitress that I saw and understood adults with this mix of glutinous and anti-frugal behavior. The scale of it disturbed me. People would ask for togo boxes and leave them on the table more often than they would remember to take them home. Don’t even get me started on the sexual harassment.
Dating is horrible. 4 out of 5 guys, regardless of income level, act like they have infinite money. Not to impress me, it’s shows in their personal finances.
Some people have just never been poor. Or something. I don’t knew what to make of this.
in eastern europe there is no such thing as “leftovers”, you cook food, and when you cook it’s supposed to last you for several days, the fact that you can eat it freshly cooked the first time you cooked is a small benefit but not the point
I usually make food with the purpose of eating later (i worked in professional kitchens b4) but i know people like my dad will absolutely not eat day old food and demand his mom wife make his own fresh food. Yes he is an anti-feminist far right fascist. And yes i do have dad issues, how did you know?
There’s a concept in Ayurvedic medicine called “Tamas”, which translates to anything that dulls or tires you out. One of the so-called Tamasic foods is “any sort of leftovers, food that isn’t freshly prepared”
I can imagine people taking and running with that, without considering those texts were written in various areas of India over 2000 years before refrigeration was invented, where a few hours in 85 degree heat would actually spoil your lunch.
My dad just eats like 6 tangerines or 5 bananas and then acts rude as if he’s an neglected 10 year old who is facing a great injustice that his wife is not making him his dinner like it’s 1950.
