/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Yes but pretty much it's for eating only. I was brought up not to talk at the dinner table so it's usually pretty quiet.

Yes, I always eat meals at the dinner table with my family when I visit them. I was brought up that meals are only to be eaten in the kitchen and not in the living room in front of the TV or computer. My gf also only likes to eat at the dinner table.

No, I don't even have a dinner table. When we have guests over we all sit on the ground around the coffee table or eat on the couch (we have a small table-like surface that folds down from the middle cushion)

I did have to eat at the dinner table with my family, which I did not enjoy.

>>6269035
That sounds awkward.

>>6269045
What nationality are you? In all seriousness.

I want to believe that's just a normal tradition like the Japs and some Arabs do but maybe you're just a white guy who literally does not have a dinner table. Just wondering

Its been over a decade since I had dinner with my family at the table.

My family never did. We all ate separately. Now I usually eat at the dinner table, but I live by myself so it doesn't really count.

Yes, every time

Australia

>>6269047
It is.

Back when we used to eat together at the table, my family was doing alright. Then we wouldn't and 5 years later my parents divorced and they're still fighting.
So, take that as you will.

>>6269062

I'm white, not trying to be all "ethnic" or anything I just live in California and I'm a cook so I can't afford a place large enough for a dining table. I'd get one if I had room but would probably only use it if I had guests over.

I never have enough guest to bother cleaning whatever I'm working on off the dinner table. I have a bar. People eat there.

When I'm alone I eat outside in good weather and at my desk in the winter. I normally only heat my office when there is no company.

If at parents we sit at the dinner table or shout from living room to dining room if there are too many of us over, at home we have tv trays that go where ever, we talk about our day during our meal its nice since lately we work opposite day and night schedules and "dinner" is at 3 am. Have a small 4 seater breakfast table but we only use it during holidays.

>>6269035

Same here. We were smacked in the back of the head with a wooden spoon if we spoke at the dinner table. The only sounds were my dad's obnoxious chewing and loose, clacking dentures.

I used to, now I tend to eat at my desk and fuck around online as I pick at food. My mother was raised with eating at the table being a tradition and tries to get the family to join her but its never a good experience. At best its awkward and quiet with my mom tossing around questions here or there to get us to talk and no one gets angry.
I wish I was a better son.

We have a dinning room that we use on sundays when my dad is at home and if there are friends with us, during the week we eat at the kitchen wich has quite a big table.

We also speak a lot, we are always talking about something when we eat, fun times.

>>6269022
Every Sunday my family gets together at my parent's place.
Everyone shows up at like 2-3 in the afternoon and we hang out, help out with the cooking, whatever.
The meal itself usually lasts an hour or an hour and a half because we end up just talking once we're done eating.
I kinda hate about half of my family but it's still pretty nice.

>>6269022
I live in a dorm so I eat it in my room most of the time, but if there's someone else in the kitchen/dining room when I'm going to eat then I'll usually stay there to eat.

>>6269022
>Do you guys still eat at the dinner table?
I was brought up with family meals. I brought my kids up the same way. Now that it's just me and wife most of the time we still eat most meals together at the table.

Of course when I'm alone I still eat over the sink, slovenly bachelor style.

I was always under the impression /ck/ was one of the more mature boards on 4chan, but from this thread it seems most people here still live at home.

>>6269250
>I live in a dorm
CUTE

>>6269263
>implying mature = older

Yep, I still eat at the dinner table with my family.

Cultural thing though probably.

>>6269062
this looks very canadian. everyone has different beer.

Here's a downer. We're a family of four.

My mom doesn't eat with us unless it's Sunday because she works until 9. She used to tell us that eating as a family was one of the most important things (we're Chinese). My dad didn't eat with us until I was about 14, because he'd always come home from work at 11.

We don't have much to talk about at the dinner table because I'm pretty much a gweilo and didn't learn enough Chinese past 2nd grade level. Now I avoid the dinner table because my brother thinks I hold this hatred towards him that I don't have (he never got over his childhood sibling rivalry, long story) and so he likes to make passive-aggressive jabs at me whenever I talk about enjoying anything in life.

When my parents are together at the dinner table, they get very loud (again, they're Chinese). I leave right then because it sounds like they're screaming into my ears. I actually got used to cooking for myself during my year stay off-campus so eating at the dinner table makes me wistful.

>>6269263
The reason it's more mature is because it's mostly women.

>>6269272
I'm not a native english speaker. What I meant was that I was under the impressoin this board had a higher age average. 20+ at least.

I never ate around the table with my family, but that was probably based mostly upon the nature of my dad's job, and then that they were divorced for about 11 years in between. (Yeah, they got remarried. Weird, right?)

Now, I don't even have a table in my house. I eat at my desk, or at the center table by the couch. I honestly don't know where I'd fit a dinner table in this house. The "family room" is so small and tucked in the corner off of the kitchen that it would be lame to eat in there, and the main room, or dining room, doesn't really lend itself to being dedicated to eating without ruining the rest of the downstairs.

I'll probably sell the house if I ever have kids, but even then, I won't push a traditional family dinner that much.

>>6269286
bullshit, women don't care about cooking anymore.

>>6269287
economy went bad here recently, there are married couples with kids lost everything and had to move in with mommy and daddy because the bank took the house.

If everyones home I'll eat at the dinner table otherwise I'll just eat at my PC

>>6269263
And how exactly does living at home equate to immaturity?

From how you people throw around the words "childish" and "mature" and "adult" I can't even wrap my head around the most inane things people dismiss at immature, and this is one of them. It's cheaper, if you like your family you get to be there, a good home cooked meal if someone there knows how to cook, and you get to save up your money.

What about dating? Fuck somewhere else. Smoke somewhere else. Drink somewhere else. That is, if whoever you're living with has issues with it.

>>6269287
>What I meant was that I was under the impressoin this board had a higher age average. 20+ at least.

I'm 21 and I live with my parents.

>>6269278
How does that scream Canadian to you

They're American as fuck

Or maybe there's Canadian heritage there that I am completely aware of. To be honest, I can usually tell in the eyes if someone is Canadian or not. They tend to be mostly expressionless.

We do because we have a small child and don't want him to adopt our shit habits. If he wants to do it when he gets older and lives on his own, so be it. But the table is for family meals.

Also
>dinner table
So do you have separate tables for each meal, or?

I try to but my family all Hayes each other so half way through when my mom is in the other room eating my dad is standing eating and my brother is on his phone watching a movie with headphones in I say fuck it and eat in front of the tv

>>6269334
Women do. Your typical female doesn't, but there's a difference between modern females (materialistic, going out to bars, doesn't care to learn any skills, especially that which they're supposed to know) and women. Women at lease take care of the house and clean (kids if there's any around). Hell, maybe even some sewing if need be. There's still 'old fashioned' women around, don't fool yourself.

>>6269062
you're a big gravy boat

>>6269692
you are completely wrong.

>>6269176
Jesus christ, no wonder there are so many alcoholics on /ck/

>>6269263
>mature
female identified.

no male ever uses this word to describe other males.

Sometimes? More when my family visits me, since my tv room and dining room are combined and my family likes to watch tv while we eat. When I'm at my parents house we never eat at the dining table unless we have guests or we do breakfast on our balcony on Sunday mornings. But it doesn't help that the kitchen table they have is the strangest height I've seen (it's too low for regular chairs so it's extremely hard to find a chair that fits, they have one right now after 3 years of passively searching)

Typically we eat on little pull out tables on the couch though. We chat while we eat dinner and watch tv though, it's not complete zone-out silence. It's just typically someone's show is on when we eat dinner so we just all migrate to the tv together and watch it together.

Ate every meal at the table (where else would you eat it?), and dinners together. Not an especially close family, however. Eating elsewhere is just disgusting.

>>6269723
I'm not, but if you wish to see it that way, that's fine.

I eat every meal in my room. I eat in comfort. Fuck your traditions.

>>6269178
>I wish I was a better son.
I didn't want these feels.

Well, yeah, I live with my family and we eat dinner together and talk about our day. When I have something important to talk about I wait until dinner to say it, because it's the time of family talking.

>>6269878
That's why I'm drinking them away

>>6269287
I am 24, I live with my parents because college is 40 minutes away and our other house is a "guest house" (we host people with airbnb) and I'm in charge of it, since there's my name and face on the site and also my parents speak shit english.

Last time I never ate at the dinner table...
>Dinner at parents as brother is visiting from overseas
>Older brother and his Finnish wife are there
>They also have two Finnish house guests staying
>Mom makes huge dish of spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, salad, etc.
>Finnish guests, bro and his wife all sit as mom yells "help yourself, dig in" etc.
>I go to wash my hands and by the time I reach the table there are one or two meatballs left and the end bits of 2 garlic loaves
>mfw they have ravaged the meal, I go without and just walk off, dad gets the shitty 2 meatballs
Any Finns here? Is that traditional to make a pig of yourselves or were these ones just particularly "hungry"?

>>6269892
Sounds to me they were just rude

>tfw you have never eaten with your family around a table.

Me and my brothers had a small kids table we could eat at, which was pretty much a coffee table made out of plywood.

In highschool I sat in front of my computer (which was in the living room) while eating, younger brother ate in his room, youngest brother ate on the couch while watching TV with Dad, Mom worked graveyard.

>Captcha box keeps switching between two locations.
>wat

>>6269692
Dipping my febora to you m'lady

>tfw you finally graduated to the grown up table at big family meals

My family does.

When I visit a family I know, they just put all the food on the island in middle of the kitchen and everyone grabs a plate and eats at the kitchen or the table next to it as we chat away.
That felt super bizarre the first time I went there.

My family is broken and emotionally abusive and the dinner table is cluttered up from my mom being a borderline hoarder

So no, but I'd certainly do it with my own family

I do,

cause I have a full functioning family.
Jesus you guys, what the hell.

Maybe food is important in my culture, or maybe cause I love my parents and I love to talk to them and also over diner.
Im 26.

>>6269022
Yes, but we also have a tv to watch at the same time. So sometimes there is family bonding conversation, and sometimes its just another group of sheep eating and watching tv.

i actually very rarely did it while i was a kid, i came from a single parent household and my mum had little authority over us.

now that i'm older i love doing it but that's because i appreciate people's company; conversation bored me when i was a kid.

>>6269892
typical of people from a shitty post-soviet state, i'd imagine

I live alone so I just eat in front of the TV

grew up always having dinner at the table with family (TV/vidya/music etc OFF). We all had our cooking/cleaning duties too.

30 now and usually have dinner with family on sundays or other random days and likewise its always at the dinner table with nephews/nieces etc. its like a birthday party every sunday

>>6269022

I live alone with my mother. Father died when 2.

I eat at night with her cause she works during day.

She usually likes to remain silent and watch stupid T.V. shows so there's no bonding or connection at all. We barely speak to each other. I kind of hate her and feel disgust for her.

This at the same time tears me apart. I wish things would be different. I wish I was a better man.

It varies.

We used to eat at the dinner table as a family. Now my parents eat in their room. I usually eat on the couch and watch tv.

Sometimes they do eat at the table and when they do, i do as well. Its usually when we have a good dinner we dont have as often.

>>6269922
Do you like squirrels?

I live by myself in a little apartment, and I don't actually have a dinner table. I eat on the couch.

Never had a close family and have many bad memories at the table. I'd go into detail but I'd probably be made fun of.
I usually prepare my meals and eat in my room, watching something on TV or online.

>>6269892
Sounds more like the host didn't prepare for enough people to me.
What is that, eight people?
You, your parents, the two Finnish guests, your brother and his wife and your other brother?

I'm 18, still at my parents house until I finsish school (this summer)
I'm on bad terms with my family, the only reason I leave my room is to make myself sth to eat (I take care of myself, buy my own food etc.). So since I don't have a dinner table in my room I formed the habit to eat at my desk while browsing 4chan.
Lately I've been trying to eat less and noticed that if I don't eat in front of my laptop I see food for it's actually purpose "eating".
Lately I really ate more just because it was comfy to chew sth while browsing the web. It was some sort of small luxury to have a nice bowl of cereal while staring at the screen. I completely forgot what it meant to be full and always ate more than I actually needed.
So now I stopped eating in front of my laptop and until now I've consumed less food.

We still do at my parents house. Never at my house since my dinning room area so super tiny and really just there for decoration. We eat on the couch. If I ever get a bigger house I'll make sure the dinning room area is much bigger.

When I lived with my family, we'd do it sporadically. Everyone had different schedules (parents worked 9-5, I had school and pt work, so did siblings etc). I remember a particular time my mom bitched I spend too much time eating in my room. The next day I cooked dinner and set the table. Everyone assembled, filled their plates, and then went their separate ways to the living room to watch TV or in front of the computer. I was pretty pissed, bad feels.

I cut off contact at some point and moved out. My first apartment was a glorified bachelor advertised as a one bedroom and I had no room for table, so I ate on the bed or at the computer desk. I've moved to a bigger apt. in the same building and I can't wait to get a real dining table, a couch, and all that so I can actually have people over and eat like a human being. Gonna feel good man.

>>6269022
>Do you guys still eat at the dinner table?
Yes.

> have a close relationship with your family.
Yes to that too.

>>6269022
I do, and I live on my own.
Sometimes, if I'm being lazy and have a pizza or something that doesn't require a knife and a fork I'll get in front of the telly.
But thats not often.

>>6270351
I've learned a couple tricks to eating less. One is don't eat fat and sugar. Two is don't eat lunch. 3 is don't snack. 4 is brush your teeth after each meal. 5 is make your own food. 6 is don't eat pre-packaged snack food, like crackers and chips. Dairy will stimulate appetite so be careful with it. and I'd avoid cheese completely. rice, beans, breads, lean meats, vegetable soup, all good things to eat.

>>6269022
>ITT
retards falling for such obvious bait.

When I lived with my family it was the normal thing, most days.

I liked dinner a lot more than I do now, when I just watch TV with it on a tray. Don't even realise I'm eating it half the time

>>6271206
>don't eat lunch
How does this even work? What do you eat for breakfast?
By about 12:30pm I have crippling stomach pains until I eat something

>>6269022

Do you not eat at the table? My parents never allowed eating on sofas or in your room. It makes a mess and you don't want food everywhere

>>6269929
>implying I'm an atheist

>>6269287

Most teenagers don't move out anymore. The concept of being kicked out at 18 is a rare one. I'm 19 and would *love* to live alone but it's impossible.

Having your own place is too expensive, most teens can't pay it. Teens can't pay so many bills, still get food, and have basic luxuries. IIt's easier to stay at home until you get a stable job or until you decide to move in with your significant other.

>>6271448
>get a stable job
This is the part that makes teens able to pay for it.
Do people not get jobs?

There were years where I could count on my fingers the number of nights we didn't eat all together as a family. It's even better with my god tier cook of a grandpa. Family dinner is sacred to us, it's where my best memories about my family are, loud and long conversations about anything, stories and anecdotes that enchant everyone, boisterous laughter at jokes and mishaps, good food and lots of wine. I pity those who didn't get to experience this.

>>6271437

Good parents are a rare thing these days. Modern parents let their kids act like slobs. No manners at all. It's sad.

>>6271453
I think he was implying that a stable jobs means something that pays more than minimum wage. Most young adults are lucky to find a full time job even, with or without a postsecondary degree.

>>6271472

I'm 19 though.

>>6271453

McDonald's isn't exactly a stable job

>>6269673
There's a difference between expressionless and not constantly talking loudly about themselves. Canadians are somewhere between the two and I think we all know where Anericans lie

>>6269022
Bad families don't eat at the table, or together. Not because they don't want to, every family would love to eat together, if not at the table. But because the parents are shit.
Good families though? Their kids want to eat with them. I'm going to make a family like that. Where my kids want to eat with me.

>>6271478
>>6271486
Fair enough, but surely people have some level of skill in some field that allows them to pick up a vaguely specialised retail job? Or am I just being naive?

>>6269022

OP, I firmly believe in the "dinner table" experience, with the talking, sharing, family bonding. I try to do it as much as I can. I don't like to watch TV while I eat... (although sometimes I like to eat while I watch TV.... but only if by myself)

If I have friends over, we usually do a BBQ or I cook up something fancy, and I'll be damned if my rosemary whole goose or whatever is going to be snack food to Family Guy.

We set up the whole table with salads, sauces, potaters, and lots of meat and we break bread while sharing stories and shit like that.

It really makes you human, that dinner table vibe.

> PS Not talking at the dinner table? You must have been really annoying, stupid kids. We always talked at dinner table and it's the best conversations. The nerds would pull out their "facts", the working professionals would pull out their "work stories", if its just friend we would reminiss about parties and other times we BBQd...

Anyone that eats on a TV tray in front of a screen is the debil.

I live with my parents and they rent a room to me and my boyfriend til we save up enough for a deposit on a place.

They have three other kids and our table has two chairs, so I eat at the table, but it's never all together. Even so, I don't mind. Him and I will be at the table while my mom's on the couch or I'll eat at our desk if I'm reading.

My mom was a single mom and worked a lot most my childhood. When she was married when I was about si we did, but it was an awkward affair. I don't mind it. We all talk and get along and it has nothing to do with when/where we eat since we all have much different diets.

I usually do whenever I'm eating with people, it's just impolite otherwise. No conversation at the dinner table is a fucking practice though, and I don't see why anyone would do that

There used to be PSAs telling us to talk at the table with your kids. Do you guys do that with family?

My mom always hated us talking at the table. We'd just watch tv. Or she would, considering ever since middle school she stopped letting m3 change the channel and always has it on soap operas at dinner

>>6271561

I don't see why it's impolite unless you're in some sort of formal setting, whether that's at a restaurant or if you have guests, or are a guest at someone else's house.

Otherwise it's just pointless, people should eat when they're hungry and interact and talk when they want to, not have some arbitrary ritual for force them to eat and interact at the same time.

>>6271574
> people should eat when they're hungry and interact and talk when they want to

You mean like goddamned animals? Oh, look at my house, I invited three friends:

> one is raiding my fridge
> one is sleeping on the couch
> one is playing PlayStation with both remotes to cheat his way through some game he brought the save to on a memory card
> one is wondering why the fuck I invited a bunch of animals into my house to do whatever the fuck they want (that be me)

I hate that shit. If you come over we're all doing something together, otherwise stay at home and munch or game or jack off or whatever.

Social situation means group activity you autistic divorced-parent-works-late loser.

Fucking hate that shit. My house isn't a Teen Center.

>>6271510
Speaking from my perspective, I dropped out of college after my freshman year. I did well enough with it, was majoring in math and getting good grades but then had a small nervous breakdown due to stress. Mostly financial stress because I was over working myself in an institution that I couldn't really afford to go to. If I graduated I would have had over $100k of debt.
Maybe I'm a fuck up for not sticking to it or not getting enough scholarships or even going to such an expensive school to begin with, but I didn't exactly have cheaper options for being well educated. I live at home now, I've tried to get hired, but at the end of the day I'm just some fuckwit asking for a handout basically. I'm a good worker that's pretty competent at most things I do, and certainly it doesn't take much skill for entry level positions, but that's hard to get across without having that initial chance. Even when I do get hired, unless it magically pays well enough, I'll still not be able to afford rent, bills, food and my loans at the same time.
I could be a fedora tipping autist for all you know, but that doesn't change that either people come out of highschool looking for jobs but can't get one because they don't have said skills, and if they come out of a university they still are unlikely to find a job that will cover the expense they took to get the skills in the first place

>>6271574

I agree with you in principle, but what's "abitrary" about it?

Most people go to work or school at regular hours. You eat breakfast before work/school. You eat lunch around noonish, when you get a break in work/school. Then you eat dinner when you get home. The schedule is already set.

Of course if someone works the night shift or whatever that doesn't work well, but that's not exactly common.

>>6271574
>>6271582
Mr. Slippery Slope here does have a good point in that group activity really helps to reinforce good social interaction
If you don't want to eat at dinner you probably ate too soon before the mealtime, but people can probably wait for your selfish ass. Or you could jut not eat at the meal and reheat it later if you really care

>>6271551
>Not talking at the dinner table? You must have been really annoying, stupid kids.
No, actually. I didn't bother talking to my mother while we sat awkwardly together at the table because I didn't care about the crazy Jehovah Witness garbage she wanted to talk about.

I didn't get to sit at a table when I lived with my dad because he was too busy out fucking hookers while I was home alone eating canned ravioli in front of the tv.

>family guy
You fucking pleb.

>>6271433
>>don't eat lunch
>How does this even work? What do you eat for breakfast?

I eat a big breakfast at 8-9am, and a big dinner at 3-4pm. Both meals are lowish in fat and high in carbs.

>>6271593
Mr. Slippery Slope here....

I've been "not hungry" plenty times for dinner. I still sit at the table, while everyone eats, and I just drink tea or juice or a beer... and talk to the people that make my life worth living.
> How'd your day go?
Otherwise you don't have family, you have a bunch of roommates.

You guys would be surprised that other people at the dinner table also lead full and interesting lives and it's the perfect opportunity to assimilate their knowledge.

HIVE MIND.

>>6271588
>even going to such an expensive school to begin with

That was your problem. You took a high stakes gamble--no different than betting tens of thousands of dollars on a poker hand in Vegas. You took out loans to go to an expensive school. That didn't work out, so now you have to pay the piper.

Your problem is not in your skills, your attitude, etc. Your problem is that you gambled and you lost.

>>6271599

Okay, so your parents were fucking crazy.... you lived in a disfunctional house.

Don't you realize that just confirms my point? That regular life with a good family includes family time at dinner.

> canned ravioli
> on /ck/
> super pleb

I had a single parent as well, but she wasn't crazy.

>>6271607
See that's exactly what we're talking about dude, why would you not at least turn up to the dinner table even if you're not hungry

>>6271593

But I talk to them other times, why do I have to set some specific side to talk to them when I could be doing something productive? We all spent plenty of time together and it didn't have to be just to eat.

>>6271486
McDonald's can be a stable job, as long as you're willing to tolerate a lot of shit. Quit being lazy.

>>6271610
> Your problem is not in your skills, your attitude, etc. Your problem is that you gambled and you lost.

Uh... degrees aren't given out in raffles, moron. Obviously anon was too stupid and not enough motivated to actually finish the school. He's the type that always asked for expensive toys just to own them and never play with them again. He took his opportunity for granted, and slacked off. Eventually fell too far behind and quit. Like a loser.

His problem isn't that he gambled, it's that he gambled then didn't actually play the game.

> Dealer has 18
> you have 14
> would you like to Hit?
> Uhhh... yeah i guess.... i dunno.... ima go walk around the casino some more.
> but sir, the game is in progress... you are about to win?
> nah, it's cool... ill just lag some more.

>>6271614

Unless you never see or talk to your family otherwise, what's the point? My eating schedule was different than my parents due to sports, as I'd be absolutely starving after practice. Then they forced me to just sit there and still eat their horrible food even though I wasn't hungry and I needed to study or bathe.

>>6271625
>"my family were shit cooks who ate at inopportune times"
>"eating at the dinner table is a shit ritual"

>>6271632

they ate at normal times, they were just inopportune for me

even if the food was good and they weren't forcing me to eat it, I had other shit that I needed to do

I live alone and dont own a dinner table. Generally avoid family interaction

>>6271625
>Unless you never see or talk to your family otherwise, what's the point?

Manners. It's rude as fuck that someone cooked a meal and you're not there on time to eat it with them.

>> I had other shit that I needed to do
What exactly was more important than a good meal and time with family?

>>6269022
Had a very pleasantville type of family and childhood, so yes, we always ate every dinner together. We'd wait for my dad to get home. TV off. This was before cell phones, which definitely made things easier for my mom. She never had to fight that nonsense. I'm probably going to have a tough time getting my kids to follow the same ritual, but damnit, I'm going to try. Those family meals are important.

>>6269176
>>6269035
Why? It's the one time when everyone is right next to each other with nothing else to do. Talking and eating go hand in hand with each other. You say some stupid shit, people respond while you take a bite of food and listen.

When I was living at home we generally never ate at the table until about two years before I moved out. My nephew came to live with us, and to put some stability in his life my mom decided we would all eat dinner together at the kitchen table. I've often wondered why she never felt the need to put that sort of stability into mine or my brother's lives.

>>6269263
most of them are hence why they think that its cheaper to eat mcdonalds or frozen heat up meals like hungry man meals then cook meanwhile its less then half the cost too cook and i feed 2 people on less then they feed themselves let alone im way healthier ,skinnier and would eat 2 heat up hungry mans for every 1 they ate becouse i eat non stop even at work also cooking is way better tasting i wont eat that plain kraft dinner shit or pasta put some onion and veggies and extra cheese in it or f off also no kraft singles i get more cheese in a block for less

Not anymore because usually there isn't a time where everyone is at the house (and hungry) at the same time.

Left my family 300 miles away, I eat at a dinner table twice each year at Christmas night and lunch after.

>>6269286
pshhh hence why most of these people suck at cooking right all step by steps that are missing so many steps becouse they a under spice and b cook on high you slow cook and add spices multiple times to all the sides of your meat and all the fake mre crap on this board also stolen food pics you can tell when they give step by stems and its missing a red spice probably seasoning spice or paprika yet they say nothing or missing chopped onion its like lol

>>6271433

I don't eat breakfast or lunch. I eat dinner somewhere between 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM. And a lot of times, I can skip that. I don't understand at all how people can have "stomach pains" after skipping one meal. It takes me two full days of not eating before I get hunger pangs. It drives me crazy to be around people who get "hangry," where everyone has to derail what we're doing to feed one person or they're going to be an insufferable cock about it.

Anyways, more to the point, I hate a forced meal time. Any family I've ever been around that has a determined dinner time just ends up fighting or rolling their eyes at each other during dinner, and it's a big mess of who is going to clean up or do what. I do think it's nice to have a sit down dinner with people, family or not, but schedule that way in advance, make sure everyone's planned for it, and everyone can be prepared and ready for a nice meal and conversation, rather than forcing them to eat at off hours.

>>6271453
>>6271510

Getting a job at 18 that can pay the bills anywhere outside of very dangerous areas of my city is impossible. That's without the cost of reliable transportation too. Very few retail/sales/food places hire full time, too, so you're looking at being uninsured, maybe working two jobs, and unable to do anything but take the bus to these jobs, which in most cases will take another 2-4 hours out of your day just getting to work.

I can see why a parent wouldn't want to cast their kid into that situation, and that's why no one gets kicked out at 18 anymore. It's practically a death sentence, or at least assuring your kid is going to end up in the same self-defeating cycle until they die of exhaustion and poverty.

>>6271611
Well if people got to pick their parents, the world would be a much better place I'm sure, but I didn't get that fucking option. And yeah, canned ravioli cause my dad would buy me whatever I wanted as long as he got to touch me at night while I slept.

I don't eat it anymore, faggot moron.

>>6271676

>Manners. It's rude as fuck that someone cooked a meal and you're not there on time to eat it with them.

They didn't cook, they heated up tv dinners.

>What exactly was more important than a good meal and time with family?

Studying. I cooked for myself because I didn't want to eat microwaved garbage. And what teenager (because that's the only time I lived with my parents) enjoyed spending time with their family?

me and the roomie eat dinner together at the table every night

usually with netflix or anime
if we have people over and ive cooked a proper meal, we'll skip the screen.

>>6272081
why are weebs such lame people?

>>6271610
>>6271620
>>6271611
who the fuck are you people

god damn if you aren't trolls i fucking pity you

>>6271551
and if this isn't a troll then i'm Jesus Christ

stop being baited ITT

>>6272056
Hope you're in a better place now, anon.

>>6270160

damn right you wish you were a better man.
You kind of hate her and feel disgust yet she pays for your shit. Im not sure how old you are but you sound 16 to me.

Unless youre capable of raising an only child after your SO passed away and then still try to not go crazy, please shut up.

Either make things work or get out.

>>6272356
Thank you I am. I have ptsd like a motherfucker and hate being touched by people, but I no longer want to kill myself, so that's good.

>>6272394
How do you deal with relationships? Are you capable of being intimate with people at all?

>>6272398
I am actually, its just when it comes to people I'm just friends with or like strangers on the bus that I get really uncomfortable when people touch me. I recently left a party early because the guy I was sitting next to kept being all weird touchy feely with me and I went off on someone I used to be friends with for getting out of their seat to hug me in front of everyone.

It makes my life really hard actually. But hey, everyone's got something right?

>>6272417
All part of the charm, anon. I don't know you but you seem alright, and I'm sure you will never become as big of a dipshit as your father, so I wish you the best, and if you become a parent some day I hope you'll succeed where your own parents failed. The least any of us can do.

>>6271243

Why is everything considered bait these days?

>>6271493
I meant expressionless eyes.

I'm serious. I don't even know how I get it.

My family has never really eaten together at the table, when I was young we would but probably by the time I was like 12 or so we all would just load up our plates and take it to our individual rooms, eat while watching tv, surfing the net, or playing vidya

>>6269022
My mother never ate anything and we both liked different meals, so we rarely ate together. Once I started attending Highschool and was there all day, we stopped doing it altogether.
Now that I live alone, I don't own a dinner table anymore.

>>6269250

That seems a bit non sequitur to me ... living in a dorm with shared kitchen/dining room would seem to me to be an excellent reason to have shared cooking/dining.

Unless you are all autists or extremely picky eaters.

We generally sit at the table when we eat but we don't talk and there's no close relationship within the family.
I've always enjoyed eating by myself at the stove, but that's really only possible when I'm alone.

>>6270065
>Finland
>post-soviet state
American education at its finest.

>>6273750

>at the stove

Nigga what

>>6273761
I do most of the cooking, so if I have the opportunity I eat things more or less out of the pan.
Extra points for using a cutting board as a plate.

We ate at a dinner table until I was around six years old. Then I told my parents that I wanted to watch TV and we all moved to the couch.

Since then we've been eating wherever the fuck. Nowadays I live with my girlfriend and we both eat at our computer tables. Our house is pretty big so we do have a couple of dinner tables but they're full of books and bills. Eating at a table is just plain uncomfortable.

>>6269692
Why are there skills a woman is supposed to know but a man isn't? Why do you want women to clean the house and take care of everything now that they're not just sitting at home while you're working to provide for them?

>>6270065
Finland was never soviet and it certainly is above 'murrica in everything bar military.

>>6273804
Reminder: in the end, you lost to the russians in ww2

>>6273769

B-but anon, you don't practice plating every meal you make

>pls don't let me be the only one

>>6273809

Reminder, you lost to a bunch of terrorists in 2001

>>6273563

Brendan Fraser looks like total shit in this picture, but it's even worse when you look at his more recent ones. He's gotten so fat.

He's healthy and rich and he'd probably drop the weight if someone wants him in a big movie these days anyways

>>6273823
>implying we lost
We won. Too bad ISIS Comando OBAMA is in power now.

>>6273908
> rich
No. His whore ex wife fleeced him. Nigga is broke

With the exception of my wife, who by necessity eats lunch at the office, we all eat every meal at the dining room table. And I make my kids eat snacks there, as well. Because we're not fucking barbarians, and my kids will face enough temptations to food issues in their lives without adding grazing like a landwhale to the list at a formative age.

>>6273941
That snack thing is good parenting. Nice work, bruh

Those who do eat with the family, do you watch tv? My gf does this and it makes me feel very uncomfortable when I eat at her place.

>>6273818
>practice plating
Please tell me you are joking anon.
No one a-actually does this?

We tried it once and didn't like it.

i live alone and i eat on my desk.

been thinking about getting a table for eating and maybe for when people are over, to play chess or something.

i dislike how everything i do happens in front of my computer screen but this apartment is small as fuark

>>6269022
in my household it's a pretty big deal. we always eat together if we don't have to work/be somewhere else. if I'm home and I don't sit down to eat with everyone else they accept it but they don't like it one bit.

>>6269022
>eating on doily

NIGGER WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE THOSE THINGS ARE TO CLEAN

USE A FUCKING TABLE TOWEL LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE DO

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DOES THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAKE ME EXPERIENCE SUCH ANGER

>>6272465
aww, you're very nice. I don't want children at all, tho, so we're good, haha.

When i'm at my parents we do, but sheit we don't even own a dining table.

>>6270160
man try to talk to your mom, parentd are pretty cool

>>6274128
i don't think that's an actual doily, it looks like a rubber one. my grandma has that, too. it keeps stuff from slipping around on the flat surface of the table. you just wash it off real quick, done.

i'm more concerned about the guy's look

>>6273754
>>6273804
Weird. He/she/xir never mentioned being from America.

>>6271493
> and I think we all know where Anericans lie

No, I don't. Why don't you spell it out for me?

>>6274170
The userbase of this board is mostly american and no one in Europe over the age of 20, no matter how illiterate and ignorant, would ever mistake Finland for being a soviet state.

>>6274189
Wow, I didn't know the entirety of the world (and thus the population of 4chan) was entirely from either North America or Europe.

Seems we're missing out on a couple continents or so.

>>6274197
Well, based on the general wording, time of the post, and considering indians/chinese/africans would never have made that statement, yes, he must have been from North America.
I guess you are an american as well.

>>6274189
I live in Finland, comrade, we most certainly were soviet. I proudly uphold soviet traditions in my household.

>>6274223
please fuck off

>>6274189
US:EU userbase here is around 2:1. given the time though, it's probably roughly 1:1 atm since the merrifriends are probably in school, at work, or if they're NEETs, sleeping

>>6272417
I forget that some people have an aversion to the touch of others. I've put my hand on two customers' shoulders but neither flinched or anything, so I think they were normal human beings,

>>6273788
What? When did I say a male isn't supposed to know certain skills to be a man? All I was saying is that there still are some females who are women, but they're few and far between, much like men. Men shouldn't just work and that's that, they have 'manly' duties as well.

>>6269278

>Canadians
>Drinking Bud

pick one.

>>6272056
Did u eat 9 cans?

>>6271472
They've been saying that for 2000+ years.

not often, but we're close anyways.
call my parents all the time.

>>6275962
go home, ricky.

>>6274168
>i'm more concerned about the guy's look

B-but OP looks adorably happy

>>6274699

I've noticed that a LOT of people don't like having a stranger's hands on their shoulders, but that they never say anything about it.

I never do it, especially to customers. Mainly because I don't like having it done to myself. A handshake or a greeting is fine but coming up behind me and putting your hand on my shoulder is pretty shitty. I'm not a germaphobe or anything and I understand that a lot of social aversions are learned behavior, but it still doesn't make it any less uncomfortable. Don't touch people's body without their permission.

>>6269886
Absolute truth

We do but it feels pretty awkward. I feel like my parents are just wired to the idea because they're both from large families that always had someone at home doing the cooking and making a big meal for dinner. They don't actually get along that well either so we always eat in silence or my dad will do something like turn the tv on loudly in the living room or have a scanner going. He'll also flip out on my mother if she makes something he doesn't want to eat or if she prepares dinner with the same item multiple times in one week (like having two meals with mashed potatoes on the side).

I'm not sure if they're aware but I intentionally work a mid shift to avoid these things

When I'm visiting family, sure.

My dinner table at home is currently covered in a bunch of random shit including a tub of flour, some vitamins, some unread mail, glue, some stones for my knives, laundry detergent, garbage bags, a candle, a stack of business cards, and a blender. I haven't actually eaten from it in over a year. I usually eat at the computer, or on the sofa.

UK, yes I do and my family always has, we usually don't talk that much so it can be awkward unless there's a guest in which case we talk

In high school it was just me and my dad and I usually ate dinner in my room every night and he (I assume) ate in front of the TV in the living room.

Now I live with friends who enjoy cooking as much as I do and we all tend to eat dinner together in the den.

In our home, feet are on the table whenever food isn't, and it gets loaded with everyone's clothes and books and whatnot.
I always just bring my food to my room and eat in pease.

I have eaten at my computer for every meal for probably the last 8 years.
I don't even own a dinner table anymore.

>>6277622
What's your living situation like? NEET or do you live alone or something?

>>6277138
Being unhappy for so long will make you a bitter ass.

You should talk to your father about it and be frank with him.

>>6269263
As long as you pay rent, there is not a single problem with living at home.

>>6277646
Americans truly are dumb and ignorant. You would do well to remember this.

>>6269263
>>6277646
>at home

Today I learned that most people on /ck/ don't grasp the meaning of "home"

Fun fact: I live at home, and I eat dinner alone most days. At home. Where I live.

Can you guys manage to work out the solution to this mind-bending puzzler?

>>6277646
If you're paying rent anyway, why the fuck would you pay to remain under your parents' guise? You can pay rent to someone else and not have to live by someone else's rules. What the fuck, man.

>>6277660

Probably because it's substantially cheaper to "rent" your own bedroom that you grew up in, compared to renting an entire apartment or house.

Fair market value of a rented room is about 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of a completely private unit. Rented rooms expose you to a lot of weird, fucked up people. Better just to live with someone you know you can live with.

>>6277660
Cheap rent

>>6277657
stop acting autistic. Everyone but you seems to understand.

>>6277672
>>6277676
You guys must have some chill parents, then. Mine wouldn't leave me alone for a fucking second. And I have no idea how you'd convince someone to come hang out with you or have sex with you there.

>>6277676
>having a basic command of words in English means autism

You're the one who said Korea was in Southeast Asia, yes?

>>6277684

My parents are "chill", sure. But it would be bad if I lived with either of them. It would be a great way to save money, but it's not happening.

>>6277631
>you live alone
correct

>>6277660
A lot of cultures keep offspring in their parents' house until they're married or their parents pass away, keeping up the tradition of taking care and supporting the elderly.

in america we just throw them in homes or visit them like once a week, lord knows how emotionally and mentally crippling loneliness is.

also, we eat on the ground as a family 2-3 times a day. i cant imagine eating alone in my room. thats ass.

>>6277686
No.

You are clearly the one who doesn't understand, lol. I bet you are one of those autists who foam at the mouth upon hearing someone call a tomato a vegetable.

>>6277684
It is simple: you don't say "I live with my parents". You say "I rented a room"

>>6277692

I understand your error and how you arrived at it. This does not mean I consider your erroneous belief to be correct.

Also, are you Ronald Reagan's reanimated zombie corpse?

>>6277691

loneliness was nothing compared to living with my parents

I had to work 2 jobs and eat almost nothing other than rice in beans in a tiny shithole in the bad part of town (I live in a very expensive city), and it was still worth it.

I'm jealous of people who didn't have horrible parents. I wish they had just neglected/ignored me, that would've been much better.

That said I used to eat dinner at the table at home when I lived with my parents. Now I eat it at the table if I go to their house or have guests over/go to someone else's house who has prepared food. Otherwise I don't see the point.

>>6277688

Same here, that's why I got out as soon as possible.

>>6277695

Not that guy but there's no way in hell that would have worked. They would've acted exactly the same, just charged me money.

When I turned 18 they said I had a 12pm curfew (as opposed to just not being able to go out at all), had to pay rent and do chores still, and all other rules stood. These rules include, but are not limited to:
-bedroom door open at all times unless sleeping
-must eat dinner wish family
-must go to sleep by midnight, dad will unplug the router if I am up after that\
-if I have plans, they must know several days ahead of time
-if I roll my eyes or talked in an "impolite" tone I would be lectured for 1-2 hours. This happened several times a week. I'm not exaggerating.

And I wasn't some deliquent they needed to keep their eyes on. I was a 3.8 GPA student. Needless to say I got the FUCK out of there, I'd rather have lived in my car.

They also told me they'd pay for me to go to college and paid for the $50 application fee for all the colleges I applied to. Once I got into all of them they retracted that offer and told me to go to a junior college because they won't give me any money. Crazy fucks.

>>6277697
Error or not; you are the one acting like a retard. Everyone but you understands and doesn't give a fuck because not autistic.

I am.

Eating at the table as a family is overrated imho

No one seems to enjoy it but your parents and even then only if it's on their terms. I much prefer it when everyone can kinda space out and watch the news while we eat or something, i don't agree with the forced narrative of the 50's nuclear family

>>6277684
>>6277684
I don't live with my parents. I live with my mother-in-law. It is way better imo but not as a general rule; she is just chill and doesn't mind me smoking weed in the spare bedroom.

>>6269690
>my brother is on his phone watching a movie with headphones in
FUCKING PHONE-HANDED NORMIE SCUM
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>6277768
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE meme is the best fucking thing this year

>>6277774
Your sarcasm is scathing.

>>6271865
Do you smoke or drink coffee?

I live alone and I usually eat at my desk.

>>6271433
Not him, but I usually have one meal a day at around 3-4pm.
I also drink ridiculous amounts of coffee every day.

I always thought it was weird to eat anywhere other than the dinner table but it seems it's the common thing, in America at least. I always found it more awkward going to friend's houses and eating with dinner trays in front of the TV than just talking at a table

>>6277851
>eating with dinner trays in front of the TV
Do Americans actually do that?
Why would you do such a thing?

I try to eat at the table with family, but my sister and mother love the television too much to enjoy sitting at the table.

That, and our interests are so fucking conflicting and different at this point that whenever we do spend time together it's either shooting the shit about work or talking about fixing up the ranch.

I think the only time we eat together are when I cook for them on holidays.

>>6274014
i love these comics and i also do practice plating

I live alone and have a massive desk made out of a large exterior door blank, so I almost always eat at that.

When I visit family, we almost always eat dinner together at a table. When I lived at home (through high school, moved out at 18) I hated eating with everyone and usually slunk off to my room or whatever. Now I have a much better relationship with my parents and genuinely enjoy talking with them so eating dinner with them at the table has turned into one of my favorite parts of visiting.

>>6269022
I did when I lived at home, and still do when I go home. I don't now because I don't feel like socializing with my landlord and probably couldn't get our meals scheduled together anyways. I plan to eat at the table when I have my own family.

not really.
when food is ready, everyone just comes to the kitchen whenever they want and grab their food.

>>6279175
>I don't feel like socializing with my landlord and probably couldn't get our meals scheduled together anyways. I plan to eat at the table when I have my own family.

I don't think anyone really eats with their fucking landlord

We eat lunch at the dinner table, breakfast too on weekends, dinner usually not because it's never a cooked meal. Usually everyone takes their own dinner and eats it at different time. For example my dad likes to eat eggs and broccoli at 8 pm, I just eat a toast with jam and greek yoghurt but at 10-11

been eating alone in my room since i was like 10 or something, mostly in the habit due to having late sports practice all throughout my teens and getting home post-dinner