Absolutely. I've known people whose "kitchen" was a dorm fridge and a hot plate, shared between three tenants. How is that person going to store the materials for a week's worth of meals, let alone cook them and store the finished products?
It is legitimately an issue that some people don’t have access to a kitchen. The cheapest apartments are tiny studios with no stove and only a mini fridge. This person is exaggerating a lot but the problem they’re talking about isn’t fake.
Yes, someone with no real kitchen can figure out viable ways to make some meals at home. But meal-prepping a week in advance is going to pose serious challenges in that circumstance.
And people who do have kitchens can still end up SOL if a major appliance breaks and they can’t afford to get it fixed or replaced, and they’ll still need to eat. The world is full of financial catch-22’s for the poor.
"And that guy just did the typical right-winger trick of picking the most expensive everything!" Halve the numbers if you like, it's still multiple hundreds of dollars of capital investment to get to the point where you can say that the individual meals were cheap.
I assure you that someone with two minimum-wage "thirty-five-hours-so-it's-technically-not-full time" jobs is well aware that beans-and-rice made at home is cheaper than McDonald's, but this is one place where the Boots Economic Theory actually applies to the modern world.
The vast majority of American households have a fridge, a range, and a microwave.
There are subsets of the population where access to a kitchen is a real problem (like homeless people), but there isn’t much overlap between those groups and the “have lots of DoorDash $” groups.
The assumption that everyone who doesn’t cook at home is using doordash is BIZARRE. People who have to commute to work usually stop for food on the way if they’re gonna eat out, don’t conflate “gets McDonald’s after work” with “uses doordash”, that makes you a disingenuous cherry-picker.
And you might be surprised how many people have housing but it’s a shitty tiny studio apartment with a sink, a mini fridge at best, and barely enough counter space for a microwave (but you have to buy your own microwave).
You may also note, if you read more than one single skeet before replying next time, that I also pointed out that appliances such as microwaves, ranges, and fridges can break and people who have them cannot always afford to replace them when they do.
Delivery is what the original screenshot was talking about. And even McDonalds is still more expensive than a meal made from shelf-stable stuff at home.
People are twisting themselves in knots to avoid saying “the convenience of this service is valuable to me” and I really do not get it.
Again, missing the point. Convenience matters to some people, but ALSO, it is sometimes actually a forced circumstance because meal prepping at home is actually not functionally possible when you only have a mini fridge to store all your perishables.
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She creates meals, even holiday meals, on a strict budget, for people with limited resources. Including just a microwave.
There are subsets of the population where access to a kitchen is a real problem (like homeless people), but there isn’t much overlap between those groups and the “have lots of DoorDash $” groups.
People are twisting themselves in knots to avoid saying “the convenience of this service is valuable to me” and I really do not get it.
You’re twisting yourself in knots to avoid acknowledging that other people might experience actual hardships that you do not.