• normalexit@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For people in a rush they are real food that is hot and ready. Grab it at the store, get a side dish, slice it up, and it’ll feed a family for a meal or more.

    I think they’ve caught on because many couples have full time jobs, and want to eat something that isn’t total garbage. They also don’t feel like cooking or the mess.

    There may be something to a general malaise driving these chicken behaviors, but we defunded the people that could study that.

    • Oida Grantla@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      That “people have fulltime jobs” and “don’t feel like cooking” arguments somehow baffles me. I somehow have no problem with finding time to cook and I work full time too. My parents also worked full time and at some time built a house after working 8 hours and two children. I remember that maybe once in 6 months my parents bought precooked food and on every other evening we had home cooked meals far from garbage.

      • notthebees@reddthat.com
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        8 months ago

        I work full time but after commuting etc I was coming home at 9 pm. Same with my sister but she had 12 hr shifts. (On paper, she works at a hospital and she’s always coming home late). Normal 9-5 is doable. The fuckass hours we have, not so much. I’d try though.