S'mee wrote:
>
> One time on Usenet, Arri London > said:
> > S'mee wrote:
> > > One time on Usenet, said:
>
> > > > Try this fast favorite!
> > > >
> > > > 1 cup Minute Rice
> > > > 2 10-oz pkgs frozen green beans
> > > > 10 wieners
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Oh, man -- where do you get these things? That's just nasty...
>
> > You can laugh. But I went to university in the US and that's exactly the
> > sort of thing I saw a lot of American students cooking. Plus eating the
> > tinned beans straight out of the tin without warming them up LOL.
>
> I believe it.
>I don't think enough parents teach their kids how to
> cook before they leave home.
But they do. They teach them to cook things like that.
>Or they're just broke -- when I was in
> college (and very poor), I spent a week eating nothing but cream of
> wheat (that's all we had in the house). Now I hate the stuff...
>
Was more broke at university than most of these people. Still knew how
to cook better than that LOL.
They probably grew up with food like that and didn't care to learn
otherwise.