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Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
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Pondering on US food & subscription culture Watching a random YouTube video and creator launches into mid-roll sponsorship spiel about a new food subscription service. I tune out and start to wonder what the everliving fuck is so wrong with going shopping that you need to get everything delivered to your door on a specific day, and you'll just wait for it rather than go get it when you want it?
(This pondering doesn't apply to disabled people, ya'll/we'll get our sustenance whichever way is manageable. Anyway.)

Then I got to thinking about how the US doesn't have a nice little cosy and familiar grocery store or six within walking distance. Only those absolutely hellish massive and society wrecking big box stores with 20 aisles for potato crisps and a frozen food section enormous enough to confound a mortal man from a 100 years ago stone dead.
"...IS the shopping so hellish you'd rather do anything except go shopping?"

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Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
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Pondering on US food & subscription culture Then I started thinking about how that's when you get to the shops. (Shop. There's only one, and you better like the one you got, probably?)
And you only go once a week if you can help it, and once every two weeks if you can manage it, or can't afford more. And you have to set aside some two hours to do it, as far as I can tell.
As an European in a medium to small city, small for European standards but large for Finland, I've always been able to run to the shops, pick up stuff and be out in 20 minutes. BY FOOT.

And I don't know, this somewhat clarifies for me the situation about the eleven million different subscription services where people will bring mediocre food to your door so you don't need to go get it yourself, and you don't even need to think about it it just happens... So there's less brain power spent on maintaining your human form, and more on the horrors I guess.

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just_chill @just_chill@peculiar.florist
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Pondering on US food & subscription culture @sinituulia I did grew up in the middle of nowhere, where once-a-week groceries are the better plan. And yeah it's a pain, but at least you get the upside of having a great place to live. Can't imagine having neighbours AND weekly shopping pain.
Also we had a vegetable patch for a bit, and several fruit trees. I'd say it can be worth it under the right circumstances, but it's nice to have other options.
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Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
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re: Pondering on US food & subscription culture @just_chill We tend to have the tiny cosy grocery store for every little village (or two even) - in a neighbourhood where you can watch a sheep running full tilt towards your garden for some five minutes before it reaches the fence. Even the more sparsely built areas have the tiny little grocery stores that you can walk to!
More likely you're going to stop by them when going somewhere else, but there's still the option for the big garden (and fields and pastures) for you, and the little village shops for everyone.
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just_chill @just_chill@peculiar.florist
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re: Pondering on US food & subscription culture @sinituulia you also happen to live in a country that I envy in about every aspects, so I'm not even surprised to learn you can have both ​:neocat_laugh:​
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Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
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re: Pondering on US food & subscription culture @just_chill It is not a perfect country, but a lot of it is quite nice!
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