>>76553834
Maybe pre covid the gap between fast food and a cooked meal at home was larger, but now it seems that with everything getting more expensive that gap is getting smaller. Although now it seems that its not just getting in your car and going to the drive thru, its paying for delivery plus meme fee for the driver to get it sent to your doorstep.
I really wouldnt underestimate the levels of laziness over here. My roommate would DoorDash almost all of his food and one day saw me cooking ribeyes in a cast iron and he was absolutely enamored. He asked me to show him how to do so and he got his own pan and did it for half a year and got some more cooking stuff. He also said that he wanted to be able to brag to her friends and impress people with it. He learned a few more recipes on his own, then he said he got bored of cooking for the most part and just gets Doordash again. He still cooks like the same 4 recipes which is better than before, but I really couldnt help but think he saw cooking as something to show off to your friends rather than a practical life skill.
>>76556534
Ive heard from a boomer teacher that fast food was something that was more of a monthly treat rather than their main diet. Also less women marrying to become housewives to cook for a husband who works full time and a family to take care of made it so that those cooking skills were less needed. Plenty of young single people and college kids made it the norm to get fast food or frozen dinner you toss in the microwave and it just stayed the same. If anything its more of Gen X and early milennials making it the norm.