Why did white people collectively forget how to cook? Why was it not passed down via family?People share horror stories about these 80s cookbooks and microwaving meatloaf etc. But it was like people were desperately searching for information about how to cook, which makes no sense because they should have had recipes from their own parents.
>Why did anglos people collectively never learn how to cook? ftfy
>>21954793Im not white but i was never taught how to cook either and had to figure it out myseld once im an adult. Here are the reasons i could think of:- they dont know how to teach- they learnt to cook my memorizing recipes so its a very step by step process with very little experimentation and creativity. Cooking to them is just another job they had to do so they found no joy in doing it or teaching it to anybody- too tired from wageslaving
>>21954793>Why was it not passed down via family?Boomers hate their parents and also hate their kids. All traditional information was lost.
>>21954802Also teaching it to a kid can be pretty time consuming and energy draining. You have to stand there while the kid slowly does his stuff, most likely messes up, has to redo, over snd over. Of course the benefit (for the kid) is enormous but you wouldnt see it for years. For low(er) iqs, its better, faster, more efficient to just do it themselves.
>>21954793microwave ovens were made affordable in the 80's and there wasn't a hipster counterculture surrounding it vilifying a new source of heatthere was a lot of boomers(actual definition) with money who wanted to show off their new toy with hip new foodsalso, regular cookbooks existed too but those don't get talked about because who the fuck cares about yet another fucking cookbook
>white people You mean Americans. And it was because of the explosion of geographic expansion post WWII, the erosion of multigenerational families, and like other anons said the development of corporate "convenience" (canned food, frozen food, etc) often sponsored by the US government due to Cold War civil defense schemes.Add in that the US went from a ton of cultures with visible enclaves to just spread out suburbs
>>21954802This is similar to what I've noticedI lived on my own for most of my adult life, so learnt to cook. And I actually enjoy cooking and think I've become pretty good at it. I moved back in with my mother recently and so I get a different perspective on how she views cooking, rather than just remembering stuff from what happened when I was a kid.Basically she hates cooking. Her idea of dinner is putting things on a pan then putting the pan into the oven for an hour while she watches television. The idea of getting better at it doesn't feature because it is a horrible chore to be withstood. She's my mother so I don't make a point of it but I can totally understand why the anglo western world is this hellscape of shitty food when the women are like this. I think of cooking as a skill that I would gladly pass on to other because I've learnt things from experience. She is just not like this at all. Like cooking is such a harrowing nightmare that she wouldn't want to even talk about it to someone else.
>>21954801Yt ppl forget that they need to wash they chicken before cooking
>>21954802>Im not whiteOk you’ve said enough
>>21955480In the year 2026 you have to be an absolute moron to be a racist but do whatever you want
>>21955478That's just stupid. Germans, Poles, Frenchmen, Walloons etc are all white and can cook just fine. Being shit at cooking is a uniquely anglo (and Dutch) phenomenon.
>>21955693Enjoying British food makes me feel even whiter.
>>21955698So you feel charcoal rather than pitch. That's nice, Jaquarious
>Cheap options to get a meal out to eat existed in the 50s, so cooking wasn't necessarily a life skill, more of a woman's skill for families>Mass production of canned goods became a thing and was seen as the future of cooking>Mass production of other preservative laden ready made foods fill a similar niche>Publishing of endless back of the box trashy recipes when trust in companies was still very high>Kids rebel against their parents, they didn't want to learn to cook and they were already rejecting their parents in other ways that were working out>Home ec starts becoming watered down and (a few generations later) is removed entirelySo you get a whole generation whose idea of cooking involves mixing some canned vegetables into a can of cream of whatever soup and adding on some oyster crackers, then throwing it into the oven. They might have a few recipes they actually know how to make, but by all large they don't know what they lost and have little appetite for cooking. Younger generations then rebelled against this by many of them learning how to cook.
