Home-delivered meals have always bothered me. It looks like the perfect example of overlooked irresponsible #consumerism.
You have a **fridge** where you can store food for days, a **freezer** where you can store food for months, **grocery stores and supermarkets** everywhere around you (some of them open during weekends or at night), convenient **online orders** and cheap **delivery** of those groceries…
…and yet you need that a local restaurant wraps their stuff in way more plastic and paper than is necessary, and that some kid jumps on a dirty moped and whizzes dangerously through the city to get to your door _right now_?
At 11PM?
What a curious reading.
I struggle to see the connection between my criticism of home-delivered food and #wokeism.
The Elect are probably the main consumers of home delivery, being mostly affluent urbanites with sleek smartphones, busy lives and a taste for ethnic food and whatever is trendy and immediate. Also, I'm going to claim some originality here — I don't recall reading anything like my toot on vox.com, quoted from AOC, or on the feed of The New York Times (I'm sure you'll be able to find something similar now, if you look for it; I'm just saying I don't think I unconsciously imbibed the idea from woke sources).
I tend to think that we, citizens of rich countries, need less consumerism, more austerity, a higher tolerance to minor discomforts (eg hunger, boredom), and more awareness about the impact of our daily actions — in general. This (quick home-delivered food) is just a phenomenon where those ideas are quite salient, IMHO.
@tripu
I feel that home delivery is a great way to get out of tricky situations where you couldn't organise better; it happens sometimes.
I do order a pizza once every few months.
Ordering delivery food regularly is just plain stupid; at least go to the restaurant, the food will be good and readily cooked.
@rastinza That's what I do, too.
@tripu Home Delivery is 'efficient' because STEM does ALL the hard work (and waste) so you don't have to spend your time...
That's the modern-day sense of 'efficient'
>_<
P.S Also to be fair and on the other side, the main temptation with ordering (according to me) is somewhat a luxury/lavish convenience thing (low frequency/price cost/self-gift) and for the range of food compared to supermarket and skills (menu being MUCH better cooked than supermarket versions or what people can do... even if it's inside a heap of plastics rattled around on a moped etc!!)
@tripu don't know which label I should put on this, either awe or disgust.
The option of being able to order food at 11 PM or even the option to go to the store at night is a fortune/sacrifice some nations allow.
Plus it is based on the nation what packaging options are allowed. And if you complain of the waste a specific restaurant produces, why not green-friendlier alternative?
As bad as the consumerism sounds in waste production, iirc, it is only a fraction of what industry produces on a daily basis.
Don't know if complaining about the icing on a cake is the best way to tackle the root cause.
I order home-delivery very rarely, and when I do it I feel a strange guilt.