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> On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 10:07:08 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 10:54:57 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> >
>> > > jmcquown wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On 3/21/2019 9:17 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > > Or a cheap, frozen bean and cheese burrito placed in a small
>> > > > > casserole
>> > > > > then topped with tomato sauce, onions and peppers and more
>> > > > > cheese.
>> > > >
>> > > > That isn't what I call cooking.
>> > >
>> > > Why not?
>> >
>> > Frozen burrito.
>> >
>> > I've got nothing against throwing together a quick meal, but I don't
>> > mistake
>> > it for cooking.

>>
>> Frozen burrito then enhanced with other ingredients. I call that
>> cooking.
>>

> Heating up a frozen burrito and adding tomato sauce and probably
> pre-shredded
> cheese is just what it is. Heating up a commercially prepared burrito to
> make it palpable; it's junk food. Heating up a Lean Cuisine frozen meal
> is
> not cooking either, nor is a frozen pot pie.


No preshredded cheese in those days. How is a bean burrito considered junk
food? I would say a Lean Cuisine probably is but I've never bought one so
don't know.