Most people make terrible food and can't actually cook.

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They can't.

I read such horrors on food threads.

Either courgettes and mushrooms mixed in a worthy mushy horror.

OR jars, and packets.

Horrible. So. Much. Horrible. Foood.

I'm not getting testy replies. The thread is generating testy replies. There's a key difference.
We too are very reluctant to eat out, I make home-cooked food from my country, and Dp is a dab hand at multi-national cuisine. it's so tasty.
The key difference is, food is part of our relationship and our familial ties. Dp did say when he was a boy a large multigenerational family gathering was standard in his grandparent's home. Now not at all. I still have huge familial meetups where food is front and center. With literally dozens of dishes.

Gosh, you really are the only family to manage that. How wonderful you are

I’m going to defend American food. It’s a massive country and there is some incredible food - often in any sense of the word. Hugely varied.

Lazy stereotypes and sweeping generalisations are not helpful.

I agree. I have eaten some amazing food in the US. As with all things, there’s a range.

Obviously most people are average.

Looking at your username I don't expect intelligent replies. Are you British by any chance.

I live on casseroles spag Bol curry’s cook own pasta rice etc but use sauces vegetables prepared as can’t chop now.ni used to cook lasssgnes cottage pie but can’t now. It may not be five star but I’m happy stew and a crispy dumpling for tea.

I'd live on Cajun chicken if I could. And some of the Thanksgiving recipes floating about recently have looked divine.

I'm not getting testy replies. The thread is generating testy replies

’there’s no way I could be the problem’

You don’t like word play? Perhaps your understanding is not as great in that area either.

Wow you must be really really fat if you’ve eaten most people’s food!!!

Perhaps it's vulgar and not funny.🙄

Nearly 8 billion people in the world and you've eaten most of their food? Wow, you have been busy 😆 and I'm a bloody good cook I'll have you know, anyone who has tried my cooking will tell you the same and no jars of sauce 😊

I think most people would like to think that they are a good cook but in reality are always short of time and are juggling between themselves and their DH as to who will be home from work first and be able to pull a meal together before they turn around to take DC’s to gym class, football practice, judo etc. Most people probably use more short cuts than they would admit to!

Oh it’s definitely vulgar, but it’s not pompous and self aggrandising. One picks one’s own route.

The problem is British food is still poor. This is a global opinion.
Who knew!

I'll freely admit I'm a terrible cook, packets and sauces all the way! And food from work the rest of the time.
But as I'm not offering to feed you (I don't offer to feed anyone because I find cooking incredibly boring) I don't know why it'd bother you so much?

Only a problem if you can’t cook.

I don’t eat anywhere that can’t cook better than I can.

Generally British food is pretty poor, but not all British food.

Sweeping generalisations don’t really add much. Who knew 🙄

You wouldn’t accept a dinner invite to friends unless they could cook better than you??

when we lived in the UK we often had friends for dinner but we bought it from COOK to save time - a much better meal than you or I could prepare.

I should have said I wouldn’t pay to eat anywhere. Of course I’ll eat my friends food.

Cook for is pretty good, but it is cooked by people, you do know that right? It is no better than my cooking. Genuinely, it’s just normal
food.

when we lived in the UK we often had friends for dinner but we bought it from COOK to save time - a much better meal than you or I could prepare.

I know without doubt I could prepare better food than COOK sells.

I have bought food from COOK, but I can make better food.

It might be true in your case but how can you say that about someone you don’t know

In the same way as posters can say that they can prepare a better meal than COOK - which I doubt as everyone I know raves about their meals. Am missing them now we’ve left the UK.

But you find this with supermarkets the world over. I’ve lived in both France and Spain, a plethora of convenience foods and junk foods available. It’s kind of the point of supermarkets really.