Comment on Learned Blankness

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:11:54 GMT

Why do you say that frozen pizza and microwave dinner tastes like particle-board? There is no good reason why they should be inherently inferior to home cooked meals. Why couldn't you put the 'perfect' dinner in a box and sell it? (I realize that there is no dinner that is perfect for everyone, but you could offer a wide enough array of choices to cover most tastes)

Of course, cooking yourself allows you to fine tune the seasoning, perhaps use fresher ingredients (although frozen ingredients can arguably be more fresh in some cases), and have more variation. There is a lot of crap out there, but I find that the quality of these dinners has improved drastically over the last couple of years.

Having said all this; I do enjoy cooking as well. It it seemed to me that your post showed some biases in need of correcting.

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