Is the High Street doomed

[Brainaddict]

How is it healthier than supermarket food?
You can buy fresh fruit and veg and other groceries from supermarkets, not just ready meals. Supermarkets are cheaper in that respect from independent high street shops.

Should have made clear I meant supermarket ready meals. The point of all this delivering is to avoid cooking.

 

[mx wcfc]

The places we use for takeaways do their own delivery on orders over £x if you ring direct rather than using a delivery company app. The delivery companies rip them off too.

 

[Orang Utan]

Should have made clear I meant supermarket ready meals. The point of all this delivering is to avoid cooking.

But surely we should be encouraging people to cook their own food and be healthier and better off? It blows my mind that people would rather spend £8 on a shitty supermarket lasagne when they can make one for £3

 

[pbsmooth]

you can get an Asda lasagne for 99p.

 

[Tanya1982]

I think I might’ve made a lasagne - or fucked one up - in home economics. Since then, I’ve bought them made and ready to go.

 

[Orang Utan]

you can get an Asda lasagne for 99p.

an inedible one lacking in nutrition and for one person, I imagine.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think I might’ve made a lasagne - or fucked one up - in home economics. Since then, I’ve bought them made and ready to go.

It’s nothing to be proud of.
People need to learn to cook ffs

 

[Thesaint]

I can't thinking the retail space landlords are the block to any chance of the high street recovering.

The internet makes remote buying easy and often cheaper as they don't have overheads of high street properties to pay.

If retailers can't survive paying pre internet rents, then eventually the landlords will have to accept a permanent haircut on the rent they can get or have voids. Accepting property investments can be devalued is very taboo to the UK mindset

 

[Tanya1982]

It’s nothing to be proud of.
People need to learn to cook ffs

I didn’t say I was proud. I just said I do it. It suits me better. Shaming people by swearing at their perceived lack of skills is hardly likely to lead to the outcome you say you want.

 

[Tanya1982]

I can't thinking the retail space landlords are the block to any chance of the high street recovering.

The internet makes remote buying easy and often cheaper as they don't have overheads of high street properties to pay.

If retailers can't survive paying pre internet rents, then eventually the landlords will have to accept a permanent haircut on the rent they can get or have voids. Accepting property investments can be devalued is very taboo to the UK mindset

Yes. Also it’s in the interests of the surviving businesses, surely, for themselves and the landlords to agree to something each can sustain. Nobody is going to want to visit a business in a mainly closed down area. They’d all make more by the greater passing trade that comes with having more around the general area.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The places we use for takeaways do their own delivery on orders over £x if you ring direct rather than using a delivery company app. The delivery companies rip them off too.

Ditto.

I support takeaways with their own drivers, not the likes of McDonalds & KFC using these rip-off delivery apps.

 

[NoXion]

But surely we should be encouraging people to cook their own food and be healthier and better off? It blows my mind that people would rather spend £8 on a shitty supermarket lasagne when they can make one for £3

Make my own lasagna? Fuck that, way too much hassle. I can bung a ready made one from Tesco in the oven and have it ready to eat in less than an hour.

 

[Orang Utan]

Make my own lasagna? Fuck that, way too much hassle. I can bung a ready made one from Tesco in the oven and have it ready to eat in less than an hour.

I’m trolling a little bit here but I kinda mean it too:
Fuck all you lazy cunts putting the prices up cos you can’t be bothered to make your own teas.
You SHOULD be ashamed.
I will never understand this daftness.

 

[pbsmooth]

It’s nothing to be proud of.
People need to learn to cook ffs

Are you making your own pasta? Growing your own tomatoes? Rearing your own cows?
People value convenience.

 

[NoXion]

I’m trolling a little bit here but I kinda mean it too:
Fuck all you lazy cunts putting the prices up cos you can’t be bothered to make your own teas.
You SHOULD be ashamed.
I will never understand this daftness.

How the fuck are the prices our fault? It's the fucking greedy corporate pigs who push up the prices, not the customers.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I’m trolling a little bit here but I kinda mean it too:
Fuck all you lazy cunts putting the prices up cos you can’t be bothered to make your own teas.
You SHOULD be ashamed.
I will never understand this daftness.

I know you are trolling, but how the fuck are lazy cunts putting the food prices up?

I seem to remember you posting that you didn't care about energy prices and wasn't looking to reduce your energy consumption, and later admitting you had left the heating on all day when no one was at home.

Using your logic, we can all blame you for our high energy bills.

I will never understand YOUR daftness.

 

[Elpenor]

Plenty of reasons why cooking might not be possible or desirable for the individual - see the thread for at least one of them

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I would love to cook my own lasagna. All I need is a) an extra free two hours a day, b) children who will eat lasagna with me to make it worthwhile, and c) some fucks to give.

 

[NoXion]

I mean, I could save money by making all my own vegetarian meals instead of eating meat and ordering deliveries, but then I'd be fucking miserable. I have the disposable income, even despite the recent inflation, so why the fuck not?

 

[Orang Utan]

Are you making your own pasta? Growing your own tomatoes? Rearing your own cows?
People value convenience.

Yeah I know. I apologise.
I withdraw that comment, but I will maintain that people need to be taught to cook and many people who are able to really should be cooking themselves.
#notallmicrowavers n that
Convenience will be the death of all of us though!

 

[kabbes]

I mean, I could save money by making all my own vegetarian meals instead of eating meat and ordering deliveries, but then I'd be fucking miserable. I have the disposable income, even despite the recent inflation, so why the fuck not?

For health?

I mean, since you ask and all. But you do you, no skin off my nose.

 

[Orang Utan]

I mean, I could save money by making all my own vegetarian meals instead of eating meat and ordering deliveries, but then I'd be fucking miserable. I have the disposable income, even despite the recent inflation, so why the fuck not?

Why not make your own meals with meat? Then you’d be happier, healthier and better off. Tis like exercise

 

[Agent Sparrow]

This thread has made me really fancy a good quality lasagna now. I do not have one

Thanks thread

 

[NoXion]

Why not make your own meals with meat? Then you’d be happier, healthier and better off. Tis like exercise

I do make my own spaghetti Bolognese, according to a recipe I learned from my mother. But I wouldn't exactly call it healthy.

 

[Tanya1982]

This thread has made me really fancy a good quality lasagna now. I do not have one

Thanks thread

Send out for one.

I’m trolling a little bit here but I kinda mean it too:
Fuck all you lazy cunts putting the prices up cos you can’t be bothered to make your own teas.
You SHOULD be ashamed.
I will never understand this daftness.

I make my own tea all the time. I had a cup not half an hour ago. I boiled the kettle, put the bag in the cup, poured the water over it, and the rest, stirred and everything - all by myself. I’ve nothing to be ashamed of in this regard. I make quite a decent cup of tea, so I’m told.

For health?

I mean, since you ask and all. But you do you, no skin off my nose.

You can get healthy takeaways and ready made portions of things from delis. I do so often - I don’t generally have a huge appetite or much of a craving for junk. Not everyone who gets things delivered or made by someone else is getting through some kind of five course grease feast.

 

[weepiper]

I would love to cook my own lasagna. All I need is a) an extra free two hours a day, b) children who will eat lasagna with me to make it worthwhile, and c) some fucks to give.

This is it in a nutshell. I can make a very good lasagna from scratch without using any jars or anything. But it literally takes about 3 hours from start to finish, creates a shit-ton of washing up and one of the two children I'd be sharing it with doesn't like it. It's way more effort than it's worth for me, most of the time. Maybe if I was having someone over for dinner I'd bother. Otherwise a £3 ready meal version on a night when I'm eating by myself is a perfectly acceptable alternative.

 

[PR1Berske]

I don't know how people justify the cost of delivery and service from Deliveroo / Just Eat. I mean fair enough if you're ordering for 5 or 6 and it's like a £80 quid order, but people getting a big mac and fries are paying as much for delivery and service as the food. I just cannot justify that logic in my head.

During lockdown I tried some delivery options and by far the worst was solo orders for McDs etc. They don't travel well and as you say, getting a solo order from them works out awfully from a financial perspective. It's very telling that I haven't bothered since.

 

[BusLanes]

I don't think burgers of any sort hold up well with delivery, whether McDs or some fancy artisanal place. Which is a shame.

The bike delivery of fast food has been a thing for a while now. I was volunteering at a stall back in 2016 opposite a Nandos before noon and the amount of delivery guys picking stuff up was quite something.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I don't think burgers of any sort hold up well with delivery, whether McDs or some fancy artisanal place. Which is a shame.

The bike delivery of fast food has been a thing for a while now. I was volunteering at a stall back in 2016 opposite a Nandos before noon and the amount of delivery guys picking stuff up was quite something.

I’ve seen a lot of bike deliveries over the years, London is full of them but last time in Birmingham for first time in years I saw a ludicrous quantity of them, could barely move on the city centre pavements for them.

 

[Thesaint]

I take it this thread isn't about the high street anymore but the pros and cons of lasagnas.

I find them to fiddly to make compared to spagbol which is 90% the same thing really. Special ingredient is a dash of sherry...Tesco finest sherry too, so heck to the cost of living crisis when it's spagbol time!