Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
> > wrote:
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> <snip>
> >
> > Anyone who has time to eat said potato has the 30 seconds it takes to
> > clean said potato before placing in the microwave. I suppose you also go
> > to those stores that assemble a ready to "cook" meal kit for you while
> > stroking your ego telling you that your life is too busy and your time
> > is too valuable to spend the 15 minutes preparing the ingredients, the
> > very same 15 minutes you spend at that store.
> >
> > Shill.
>
> I just don't understand those places. There is one near me and I took a
> peek in there after all these people I know were raving about what a good
> thing it was. Wouldn't work for me since we have food allergies and there
> were cross contamination issues everywhere. Plus most of the menus they
> have wouldn't go over well with us either.
>
> But I just couldn't see it. No appeal whatever to me. Why would I want to
> drive to a place to assemble a meal then bring it home and freeze it? Not
> for me.
>
> My mom tried to tell me if I didn't have the food allergies and I was
> working, I would love it. Well, no I would not. I can't see myself ever
> liking that. Oddly, I've never seen anyone in there making a meal. Never.
Like I said, that store concept like a lot of other similarly stupid
things all work on the principle of extracting money from the clueless
by stroking their egos. Instead of say, teaching the subject how to
cook, you instead tell them that they are too busy (read lazy) and their
time is too valuable (they're self absorbed and neglecting their kids)
for them to spend the huge amount of time (15 minutes) it takes to
prepare ingredients for cooking. It's simply a yuppified TV dinner at a
yuppified price.