I'm muting all political threads now

tim17 · 17 May 2022 18:53

Whilst I don’t agree with that, less and less people cook from scratch now for various reasons especially the younger generation.

kirsteastevenson · 17 May 2022 19:08

Yes, and I think the ‘for various reasons’ is key. Can’t cook is very different to won’t cook. Frankly if I lived in some HMO in Hoxton with 5 other people, and had the entire world in food on my doorstep, I would probably choose to cook only when I actually wanted to, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t know my way around a kitchen if I need to, or want to, cook something. Yes the ‘metropolitan elite’ is perhaps a minority, but it is one of the many reasons and an example that perhaps it’s not that they don’t know how. The HUGE numbers of cookbooks, blogs, vlogs, apps etc aimed at millennials and gen Z would suggest there is certainly interest in cooking from younger generations. Perhaps it is like the Food Network in the US where their research showed people watched the channel in big numbers, but did so because they liked to watch other people cook, having no intention to actually try the recipes themselves. I dunno.

tim17 · 17 May 2022 19:15

It frustrates the hell out of us that our two sons spend crazy money on takeaways when from a very young age they were taught how to cook.

almondbiscuit · 17 May 2022 19:24

Like someone else said earlier somewhere, that seems to be the direction of travel. Quite a few flats being built lately don’t even have a proper kitchen,.just a little corner to warm food.

Ancient_Mariner · 17 May 2022 19:54

Interestingly he seems to have previously been a member of the Labour party (as a Labour councillor) until 2018 when he was a naughty boy and they reprimanded him. I guess he’s a natural fit with BJ as a self-seeking and ethically questionable individual, though his experience of food banks is likely genuine.

Thanks for the link Kirstea, but I don’t do FB.

Mat_Davies · 17 May 2022 20:02

With another Tory MP arrested, this time for sexual offences I think I may mute political threads also.

Some have suggested it is Mark François MP but I couldn’t possibly comment.

graham · 17 May 2022 20:15

Whilst on the subject of Conservatives… I came across this gem -

just how true can that be?

Looks like the 2 by-elections, triggered after a petition in the HoC was approved today, will be on 23rd June…

Ancient_Mariner · 17 May 2022 20:23

TBH I don’t really care who it is, provided justice is served & they’re punished if guilty or exonerated if innocent.

billybutcher · 17 May 2022 20:26

Cut to the chase here, surely more effective just to mute politicians?

Lizzie1 · 17 May 2022 20:29

Lee Anderson maybe a halfwit but he’s not northern

graham · 17 May 2022 20:30

The Conservative Chief Whip has withdrawn the whip until the Police investigation is concluded (at least) right before these by-elections…
There are a considerable number of MPs under investigation right now for serious potentially criminal misdemeanours.
What a den of inequity!

kirsteastevenson · 17 May 2022 20:44

Yes, neither do I, it felt icky just going on to watch it myself which was why I provided you with an expert blow by blow commentary of the whole thing

kirsteastevenson · 17 May 2022 20:48

It says he’s from Ashfield in Nottinghamshire. Cheshunt is about as up as I liked to go, anything higher is definitely ‘the north’ to me

KarenLot · 17 May 2022 20:51

What a w*nker. I’ll take your word for it Kirstea.

Lizzie1 · 17 May 2022 21:03

But there’s an irony when people comment about the government neglecting the north yet call the East Midlands the north

kirsteastevenson · 17 May 2022 21:14

I think there would be more of an irony if I had commented on the government neglecting the north, there would be a correlation between the two things. Perhaps people who care are focused on the government neglecting the north actually know where it is…