exasperation

Caesar Cardini was an Italian American who set up restaurants in Tijuana to accommodate booze tourism during prohibition, just on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border. It was in one of the Tijuana locations where he (or possibly his brother) first developed the Caesar salad. When prohibition ended, Cardini shut down his businesses in Mexico and continued operating exclusively in the U.S.

So really, all 3 countries have some claim to the salad: Italy, The United States, and Mexico.

$20 gas gets me much, much, much further than $20 in eating high carb prepared food when riding my bike between point A and B.

Let's see. Assuming:

• Gasoline costs $3/gallon
• A car gets 30 miles per gallon

That works out to where $20 buys 6.7 gallons or 200 miles.

Assuming cycling burns 50 calories per mile, you're looking at 10,000 calories of excess energy usage to travel 200 miles.

At 1700 calories per pound for dry pasta or dry rice, that's about 5.8 lbs of pasta or rice, probably less than $10 in most places.

Or course, people eat other things, and will likely increase their consumption of everything in a ratio proportional to their increased caloric needs, not just adding carbs to some kind of baseline amount of food for their BMR, so I wouldn't expect it to be that cheap in real life. But there's a little bit of wiggle room to work with for anyone cooking their meals at home.

We're always picking up new slang. Some slang never really makes the jump between generations, regions, subcultures, even languages, etc. But some do.

One of the most successful slang words is "cool," which spread from the jazz scene in the 30's to the general American lexicon in the 50's, and has basically become such a core part of the English language, even outside of the U.S., that those of us born after don't even think of it as slang.

Every generation has a few of these, and they might have started in a particular video/movie/TV show/song, some other work, in a certain community among a certain generation, ethnic group (or bilingual speakers who just slowly incorporate calques or loan words from their other language), or other group, and the popularity of that particular word makes the jump to those who might not be familiar with where it comes from.

I was a kid when "my bad" showed up in the basketball world (possibly coined by Dikembe Mutumbo), got picked up by American black teens and spread to other generations and races until it eventually just became part of standard colloquial American English. 10 years after first hearing it, I heard a white boomer college professor use it non-ironically, and I realized that it was just something people of all walks of life just said. Now, 20+ years after that, it's still going strong.

Thinking back, I think "dude" made a similar jump in the 70's. The TV show Seinfeld popularized a bunch of phrases that entered the lexicon: "yada yada," "regift," maybe "shiksa." "Clean" as an aesthetic descriptor probably became popular after Outkast's 2000 hit "So Fresh, So Clean," even if the song itself reflected existing cultural usage. Post 2010, I'm guessing "sus" has staying power, and definitely jumped generations, largely off of the brief "Among Us" popularity.

"Yeet" and "rizz" have stuck around a bit longer than fleeting teen slang usually does, but it remains to be seen which Gen Z teenage words actually survive regular usage into the 2040's. I'm guessing the ones that get featured in a popular song or TV show are the ones that have the highest likelihood of long term survival.

I don't understand why that changed.

It's easy to point at social media, and that's part of it, but I think it's probably the ubiquity of photos and videos, easily transmitted to others. Even those of us who aren't on social media still send photos and videos of our kids to the grandparents, to cousins, to other friends and family. We're constantly exposed to parenting highlights, which subtly shifts the expectations on what the non-highlight portions look like.

One big one is that today's parents put too much pressure on themselves (both individually and as a group) to always be supervising. Some parents don't feel that they can leave their child alone for 30 minutes while they shower or clean, or watch TV, because we've built up expectations that everything is structured and that we're supposed to sacrifice our individuality for the kid. Some recent research has shown that millennial parents are spending a lot more "hands on" time with their kids than any previous generation, rather than passive supervision like when kids are playing in the house while the adults do something else.

Plus there is a significant line of people who feel compelled to do high effort, high visibility shows of parenting effort: Instagram worthy birthday parties, more structured play and learning, high effort cooking of things from scratch rather than convenience foods, etc.

Finances (and working hours) are definitely a big part of it, but a bigger part is the shift in norms and expectations that we're expected to be much more for our kids than prior generations.

I assure you, many of us were drinking copious amounts of coffee before kids, too.

(man puts stick in own bicycle meme)

I don't know how representative my preferences are for the rest of the USA, but I live in a dense city.

I have a bicycle (and my city has plenty of bikeshare rentals scattered all throughout) so I'm usually not willing to walk more than 10 minutes.

When the weather is nice, I will walk within 5 minutes (roughly 0.25 miles or 0.5 km), bike within 30 minutes (roughly 5 miles/8km, depending on lights and traffic), and drive or Uber/Lyft beyond that.

When the weather is bad, I usually take mass transit if I can do it with less than 2 transfers, or I'll drive/Uber/Lyft otherwise.

My choice between driving and Uber/Lyft is usually driven by some combination of cost (including parking), convenience, and whether I intend to drink.

The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

There's not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn't make as big of a difference as it used to.

Why would you have to carefully weigh anything? Butter doesn't really need to be measured, just eyeball it and go from there.

In the U.S., butter is sold in sticks of half cup/4 fl oz/8 tbsp by volume, but it's basically fine to think of them as little 100g portions too. Tolerances for cooking are pretty high, and people aren't that precise at cutting off whatever portion they need.

If you're baking, there needs to be a bit more precision, but that precision matters whether you're measuring by weight or volume, or imperial versus metric. Plus, a lot of baking can be done by feel when you have experience anyway.

Just go and do. Cooking is fun. Some people like to measure, and some don't. It all works, though, as all the different styles still converge on the principle that making tasty food for yourself and loved ones is a pretty universal experience.

Isn't that just what Lemmy shitposts is?

Break it out into 168 hours per week:

56 hours of sleep
45 hours of work (include the potential for working a bit longer each day)
5 hours of commuting to/from work
6 hours of exercise/gym
2 hours of grocery shopping
7 hours of cooking and other food prep
7 hours of eating
1 hour of laundry
2 hours of general cleaning around the house
2 hours of other general chores

That's 133 hours per week. You still have 35 hours for socializing, hobbies, other activities you enjoy, or just plain sitting around and relaxing (with a book, with TV, etc.) if you enjoy that. And some people can fit in part of those needs in terms of overlap: white collar jobs that don't mind if you buy something for yourself online during the day, restaurant jobs that cover a shift meal, physical jobs or commutes that reduce the amount of time you might need to get exercise outside of work, etc.

For me, I actually really enjoy cooking (and eating) so I probably spend more time on those than is strictly necessary, but it doesn't feel like work to me.

I'm probably lucky in that I spent some time working in restaurants that gave me a ton of kitchen skills (not just the actual ability to prep and cook delicious food quickly, but the sense of meal planning on a strict budget that reduces food waste), and makes me appreciate the regularity of a white collar job schedule that actually fits with circadian rhythms and the flow of the rest of society.

Kids make it harder, though. A lot of that 35 hours per week carved out gets totally eaten up with a second commute to daycare (5 hours), bedtime routines (7 hours), extracurricular weekend activities (5 hours), and extra cleaning (5 hours), a second load of laundry (1 hour), and extra chores (2 hours), leaving you with only 10 hours per week of hobbies/leisure.

At that point you've gotta find the time from somewhere. I personally dipped to 7 hours per ~~week~~ day of sleep around that time, dropped my gym attendance to around 3 hours per week, and started paying to outsource some of the cleaning (a weekly service) and cooking (more takeout/restaurants) and shopping (more grocery delivery).

But the magic, for me, was that my kids are really fun. They leave me with less time for other things but I love them and that part feels less like a chore. And they're a forcing function in that I have to be home when they're asleep 3-4 hours before my bedtime, when I don't have anything better to do than clean a bit, do a bit of meal prep, and watch a lot of TV with my spouse.