re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His other point is that there is only so much food humans can eat in a year, no matter how hard they try. So there is pressure on food producers to raise the margins on what they sell because there is an upper limit on volume.

And if they can take a package of industrially harvested wheat and mix it with some industrially mass-produced whey by-products and bulk chemicals, they are going to be able to make a lot more per unit than by selling us fresh pasta and cheese.

It’s cheap for a machine to make a million versions of something that save me a half an hour to an hour to put together (and forget anything taking longer than that). I’m willing to pay a bit for that for the time. But, in a lot of cases, I’m not only saving time, but saving money. When you buy the ingredients needed to make a particular meal, you generally can’t buy just enough to make your meal, you end up with a lot more, which don’t get used and then go bad. So, between time and money, it works out a lot cheaper for me to buy a premade meal.

And, before anyone chimes in, no, I do not care for cooking that much. I want to get done in the kitchen and then get out of it.