Wait are you telling me a chicken dinner and juice is more attainable than a home?? Could that be why?
There’s a reason young people are travelling and using their savings on entertainment, we know we will never own. Not until we take housing by force, so what’s the point of saving? I can’t even save enough to keep up with interest. So yeah when I’m old I’ll be poor and the government will have to deal with me
GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!
… That’s what this headline reads like to me. How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.
Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don’t even get three paragraphs in and they’re using a sales engineer’s thoughts to represent young people as a whole.
It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.
"Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can’t afford to go to a doctor.
Fucking ghouls.
Headline in two years: Gen Z’ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.
Gen Z and millennials are splurging on breathing air.
“GenZ struggling to survive in the lower levels of MegaCity5. Their blood is too low in iron to keep the immortal rich alive.”
GenZ not eating nutritious meals is the leading cause of rejection for Soylent processing.
Yeah that might be the most accurate to the blaming tone these kinds of articles write with and to what they will take from us.
Just need to jazz it up with some homemade slang to hide the sad bits and the immortal rich part.
“GenZ struggling in well stocked MegaCity5; “Fecal-de-Cal” diet blamed for lack of macro nutrients during their mandatory weekly Blood-Up donations.”
literally, the conservative culture of boot licking the billionaires never ceases to amaze me
I’m hungry. When do we eat?
Splurging on double ply toilet paper that is free of bark. Recklessly spending on biannual toothbrushs. carelessly using their lunch break to eat instead of adopting mico-hussles. foolishly agreeing to pay rent instead of taking money out of their grandfather’s equity built trust fund to buy expansive rental properties.
why are they so bad with money?
splurging on rotisserie chicken
You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?
and gut-healthy juices
so they don’t have to have healthcare. Don’t forget that this is owned by Murdoch, a truly evil shit stain.
Costco rotisserie chicken is to die for. I mean, literally. Motherfuckers waiting in line for that shit and don’t you dare walk in front of the line when they start putting them in the case, you’ll get killed.
isn’t this the free pastrami for jewish people guy?
“I’ve been eating Rotisserie Chickens at Costco everyday, one a day, for the last 25 years. It all started when Costco came to New York in the 90s, the first one was in Staten Island.”
But then he goes off the deep end about “LED light poisoning”
https://oldjewishmen.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-viral-costco
So… he thinks the laser “infects” his chicken, indirectly giving him “laser poisoning”… So his solution is to have them laser him directly, through the impenetrable barrier of a cotton t-shirt?
Are… are lasers only harmful if digested? Is the brief swipe of a laser some sort of catalyst for a chemical change in the chicken meat?
I live alone now, and I get less motivated to cook for just myself, but today I felt like I needed to eat healthy. I got a rotisserie chicken and made a nice sandwich with it, pulled most of the meat off the bone and put it in the fridge, then simmered the carcase with celery, onions, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, and salt until it was reduced way down. Strained that into a container, and tomorrow I’ll make chicken soup with that, some more of the veggies, and some little potatoes I have leftover. I’ll have several meals with a few cheap ingredients. Super cost effective, healthy, and delicious.
This is the way.
Just a few practical tips for those of you wanting to do this, but feel a bit nervous about dealing with the chicken carcass. Disposable gloves are your friend. Pull off every bit of meat you can possibly pull off. It can be frozen and then used for pretty much anything. You can throw it in tacos. You can put it in ramen soup.You can just eat it. You can share it with your dog or cat, if you can afford one.
If you have an Instant Pot cooker, I have the small three quart sized one, it makes it really easy and quick to simmer the carcass and get all that delicious bone broth. The bone broth can also be used for anything savory you’re making that requires water like rice, instant stuffing, Ramen, couscous. You get the idea.
Filled with chlorine
The other other white meat.
Baby!
Who let Justin Bieber in?
I was thinking more Fat Bastard, but text isn’t great for conveying Scottish accents in general, let alone the single word response.
I can get frozen chicken bits pretty cheap. My cheap options right now look like a half a kilo plus sauces, or (with some walking) a full kilo, plus no extras.
“Splurging” on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We’re buying them because it’s the cheapest way to eat
Up next: Gen Z splurging on costco hotdogs and mi goreng instant noodles.
I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I’m a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can’t wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.
Check out Daddy Warbucks over here with his canned beans! Dried beans are even cheaper.
That lucky bastard! Lucky, lucky, lucky bastard.
I DREAM of the day I can revel in canned beans! No soaking! No spices! No massive pot!
lucky, lucky, lucky bastard
You are correct, they are. Wet beans saves me time from having to soak them. Lentils are they only ones I buy dry because they cook fast without soaking.
Every time I try soaking dry beans I forget about them and they get gross.
I never bother soaking em. Pressure cooker (instant pot) does the job. I don’t throw away the liquid either, that’s good vitamins. Just do the beans most of the way in stock and spices, throw in rice and quinoa, close it up and cook it the rest of the way. Super easy.
Beans were once seen as poverty food. In the great depression at least. They were the Ramen noodles of that era.
Protein, plus fiber, plus complex carbohydrates. What’s not to love? Plus it makes a smaller environmental impact compared to farming poultry or larger animals. It was mind blowing to hear rags like the WSJ demonize the younger generation for eating avocado toast; it’s a fucking cheap meal. Avocados were like $1 a pop and are a good source of fiber and health fat. I can’t wait for rags like the WSJ to start publishing articles like, “How dare the poors waste money on eating!”
They are great. I was going to make a bean stew yesterday but this article made me go buy a roast chicken just to spite them. Beans are for tonight!
Yeah, avocados imported into Canada are expensive but if they grow near you I can see them being stupid cheap.
Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.
Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.
So we are not supposed to …eat?
The rich don’t understand the purpose of food, having never missed a meal in their lives.
Ending your sentence after “rich” would have been good enough to answer the question.
Bitch, it is cheaper to buy the fully cooked rotisserie chicken at the grocery store than the UNCOOKED WHOLE CHICKEN.
Don’t fucking tell me how to math, you assholes made corporations people, so I think we have very different ideas of what is important in this world.
because they use shitty frozen chickens and they cook them like 100 at a time and they only taste great because they are loaded roasted with chemicals/cheap ingredients. it’s processed food, so it’s cheap. the chickens use at the grocery store for roasting and like 5 bucks and then but 5 cents of crap on them and sell them for 10 bucks. it’s also way more efficient to mass produce things than do them one at a time.
making your own chicken is more expensive because you’re getting higher quality and fresher product and using highly quality ingredients. a decent whole 4lb whole chicken for me is 10-15 bucks, (20+ if you want a organic free range pasture bird) and I’m adding nice salt, nice olive oil, and fresh spices/citrus etc.
the home made bird is far healthier. but not as tasty because it’s not loaded with crap.
To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.
Right but the discussion isn’t if it is healthier, it is what is cheapest. If low income families lack the equipment or knowledge to cook a good tasting whole bird, rotisserie is a good priced option. The fact that the news outlet is calling that splurging is wild.
cheapest here and now comes at a long term cost.
these chickens are a loss leader in order to get people to hooked on shitty premade food that is profitable for the stores so they never learn to cook better food.
i grew up poor. it was splurging for us to buy this stuff. our regular food was frozen and canned. even uncooked fresh food was a luxury for us.
Spend whole life in cage or being trampled by your peers
get fed industrial byproducts from other industries
Told entire life’s purpose is to be killed and eaten by your captors
Get called shitty.
Edit to add:
Even though you were born into this system and have zero agency, it’s still somehow your fault because TubularTittyFrog has had some bad coworkers.
i’ve had co-workers who feel the same way. kept fucking up at work, not showing up on time, and blaming everyone else for being mean to them. they were shitty people and work is much better without them around. being around competent people who take pride in their work and themselves is a joy.
edit: it’s not a system dude. It’s the choices you make. if you’ve made choices to make yourself a caged chicken and you hate it, you’ve nobody to blame but yourself. chickens don’t have existential angst.
You’ve been reported. You seem to be arguing a completely different argument and lightly trolling. This is a warning or I’m going to give you a temp ban.
That doesn’t account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven’t done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn’t make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
Yeah… I wish I didn’t, but I get that reference…
I’ll just be satisfied with knowing what this guy is about to do, but not actually seeing the footage myself.
Me too budd, me too
sigh same. We’ve been on the internet too long.
hey man nice shot
$5 for a whole chicken? That’s cheap as fuck. What does the WSJ expect gen z and millennials to eat? Their mom’s cooking?
A single meal for $5 would be a deal. A rotisserie chicken can feed a family, or a single person could eat it for days.
This is just more “anyone who isn’t a millionaire doesn’t deserve to eat” rhetoric from the world’s billionaires.
Also, as a 30y.o. millennial, I object to the characterization of the “oldest gen z” being 30. I’ve earned my place among 20th century-borns!
Can feed a family yes, but isn’t truly a meal on its own. Add some rice and beans, and now you’ve got a decent meal that has a tad more nutrition/balance than just straight up chicken.
You’re right, it needs some veggies too. But honestly if you’re having rice and beans, and something iron-rich like broccoli, then the chicken isn’t even necessary.
But we all know the people complaining about this aren’t advocating for vegetarianism…
New day, new generation, every single day
It’s even worse, if you buy “cold” rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.
Why the price difference? Don’t know. It’s stored in the open cover “cold food storage” they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.
If I had to venture a guess it’s whatever is left over from the hot section the day prior.
I can’t speak for Walmart but I can confirm other grocery stores do that. Whatever doesn’t sell gets chilled for the following day.
I know there was a time written on the bag, could of been from the previous day I don’t know. That said if I buy a chicken, eat half, put the other half in the refrigerator I would still eat it the next day so…
Our local Costco has these. They’re the previous day’s chicken and are sold at a discount.
The cold ones can be bought with SNAP/food stamps as well a being cheaper.
What a way to live
You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?
There is a reason we think boomers are out of touch.
They bought houses with high school diplomas for 6 walnuts. Why can’t you kids do the same?
Try to explain to them that we will never be as weathly as they are and how we will receive 0 inheritance from them because they planned out how to spend their entire retirement savings not knowing what end of life care actually costs.
That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?
Good ol’ rotisserie chicken, rice, n beans. Sauce of choice. A legendary combination.
