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> - a scary amount of people of my generation are completely uneducated about food

A scary amount of my peers are afraid of cooking; I mean they're suddenly comfortable w/ their Blue Apron w/ instructions, but having a home standby is unheard of them for the most part.

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Afraid ? Like afraid, afraid ?

Is it not within the bounds of believability that the same generation that has safe spaces and fears of sauce (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-...) on college campuses might also be literally afraid of cooking.

Saying a generation has a "fear of sauce" seems a little exaggerated, given that the article quoted one college student who came home because she "didn't like food with sauce", which was clearly an outlier given that her parents went way overboard throughout her childhood helping her avoid sauced foods.

Well, fear of cooking chicken because of salmonella is pretty up there generationally

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