/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12001357]

Post horror stories of growing up with parents who couldn't cook

>be me
>grow up poor
>average dinner was
>chicken pan "fried" in water so it wouldn't stick, no seasoning at all
>microwaved canned green beans or other canned food
>I thought spice racks were just fancy decorations for "rich" people until I was 19
>never had salt or pepper until 18
>Ate at first restaurant at 19 and didn't know food could taste good

[Anonymous No.12003071]

Were you poor? No offense
Where are your parents from?

Good lawd.

[Anonymous No.12003072]

>>12001357
It has nothing to do with fucking poor and everything to do with your parents can't bother to learn to cook.

[Anonymous No.12003073]

>>12003072
The two are heavily correlated.

[Anonymous No.12003093]

>>12003073

nope. black people.

[Anonymous No.12003095]

>>12003093
That is also a factor in predicting poverty.

[Anonymous No.12003108]

>>12001357
sounds like poverty to me

[Anonymous No.12003116]

>>12003093
Most blacks dont know how to cook. It usually falls on the elder

[Anonymous No.12003119]

similar story. grew up eating congee and fried spam, never had salt or pepper at the table. didn't even realize food could taste good until i went on a school trip with meals provided.

[Anonymous No.12003124]

>>12003093
the meme that black's know how to cook is just that, it's a meme. a lot can cook, just like a lot of whites can cook. Poverty is definitely a huge factor in whether or not they eat like a slob or not

[Anonymous No.12003131]

My mom once burned a pot of rice.
In the microwave.
The pot had water in it.

[Anonymous No.12003136]

>>12003073
Not when all it takes is $0.10 of spices to make a meal not bland. It doesn't even have to be good it will still have flavour. What you have is uneducated parents. No one is too poor for salt

[Anonymous No.12003149]

>>12003071
>grow up poor
>"Were you poor?"

[Anonymous No.12003182]

Black slaves made the entirety of southern food culture with nothing less than fat and bones that their slave owners gave them

Being poor isn't an excuse ur parents just sucked

>>12003071

[Anonymous No.12003187]

>>12003124
Fucking lol, your just jealous. I've never met a black woman who couldn't cook.

The funniest shit is that diversity produces the best food. Bring something from somewhere and put it somewhere else and you create some of the world's best dishes.

[Anonymous No.12003199]

>>12003187
Are you justifying Slavery you bigot!?

[Anonymous No.12003619]

>>12003182
This. My mother and grandma were poor as fuck but great cooks. Knew how to do a lot with not many ingredients. But some families just never learn the knack.

My friends' mother never knew how to cook shit, her "spaghetti" was unseasoned mince with noodles and store brand ketchup. Fucking revolting. And my middle class gf is an okay cook but everyone else in her family is a fat bitch that just eats KFC five nights a week and greasy ass lasagna the other two.

[Anonymous No.12003638]

>>12001357
I wanted to cry every week my mom made pork, it would stick to the roof and sides of my mouth and had no seasoning, just the flavor of being overcooked in the oven. She will not use black pepper because it's too spicy. I had no clue how incompetent she was until I moved out
>t. Whatever income class has a vacation house but not a cleaning service

[Anonymous No.12003651]

>>12001357
>never had salt and peppe until 18

Dude what the FUCK

[Anonymous No.12003671]

>>12001357
>could afford chicken
>couldn't afford salt
I smell a liar

[Anonymous No.12003677]

>>12003651
JustThingsThatHappenWhenRetardsHaveChildren

[Anonymous No.12003928]

Mom would make spaghetti with pineapples in jarred marinara. Shed cook it in a slow cooker unseasoned and with hotdogs. Another time she boiled ribs and used McDonalds BBQ sauce to glaze them and threw them in the broiler. Pretty much refused anything she would ever make.

[Anonymous No.12004084]

>>12003182
This is bait

[Anonymous No.12004092]

I had an aunt that cooked brussel sprouts by boiling them into a bland chewy mush.

[Anonymous No.12004093]

>>12003671
OP didn't say they couldn't afford salt. It's entirely possible they used no seasoning at all because they were afraid of muh evil salt monster, or because they were simply bad cooks. Poverty is not necessarily the motivation for lack of salt.

[Anonymous No.12004098]

>>12003187
I've never met a young black person who can cook. The ones that can cook are all old or middle aged

[Anonymous No.12004113]

>>12004093
>I thought spice racks were just fancy decorations for "rich" people until I was 19
Nope ur wrong

[Anonymous No.12004616]

>>12001357
Why does that meat look like donkey Kong?

[Anonymous No.12004623]

>>12004616