/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14583392]

> be me
> mid 20s
> have date over for dinner that evening
> kitchen is flawless
> knifes sharp like japanese steel folded a billion times
> fridge full of fresh food
> even bought some herbs in pots
> she arrives
> "Wow, anon! You've got a beautiful kitchen there!"
> thatsrightbitch.wav
> "Yeah, thanks. So, what do you wanna eat? I can fix you everything you want. How about we start with a nice....."
> "Haha, you're funny. Let's get some burgers at [insert fucking fast-food chain]."

I split the check.

[Anonymous No.14583402]

If this is a real story - she's didn't want to be in your murder dungeon kitchen. I have no doubt you were showing off how sharp your knife are and that freaked her out.

[Anonymous No.14583404]

>>14583392
You were going to cook for her while she just waits? Make some dish that takes an hour?

I see how that might sound nice in your head but why not ask her to come over after you cooked something nice so you guys can just hang out and eat together immediately?

[Anonymous No.14583411]

>>14583402
She complimented me on my "flowers". The herbs....

>>14583404
I had some snacks laid out in the table. Was expecting a nice conversation while be both prepared food.

[Anonymous No.14583415]

Cooking together is a 3rd-5th date activity. If you invite somebody to dinner, you should have it prepared before they arrive, or it should be in the final steps of preparation, especially since it was just you two. Also, the person that invites the other out should pay.

[Anonymous No.14583421]

>>14583411
I don't know if it was the first date with her, but I agree with this >>14583415. Except for the paying, if she's not a grenade she'll at least offer to split and if you want to make a nice gesture you can pay for all of it. At least where I come from it's pretty normal for both people to pay their share.

[Anonymous No.14583543]

>>14583404
This
OP is a moron
You don't bring someone over to your house on the first date and cook for them
They don't even know if they like you yet, and if you're a fucking loser like OP, they're not really able to leave

[Anonymous No.14583550]

>>14583392
Mads Hannibal is pretty damn kino. Sorry about your shit date, anon.

[Anonymous No.14583569]

>>14583392
>be her
>mid 20s
>have date over at A.Non's house for dinner
>wonder what he'll surprise me with
>get over there
>hmm no smell of food but maybe we're doing platters and antipasto or something
>literally nothing prepared
>starting to notice A.Non doesn't swing his arms at all when he walks
>bit weird †bh
>stands like 15ft away with a weird smile and asks me what I want to watch him cook
>how the fuck do I get out of here and avoid all this without angering him
>let's go out...side... somewhere... and just buy food
>suggest the burger place near home
>have friend text me with "emergency" just as we're finishing our food
>dodged that fucking bullet

[Anonymous No.14583585]

>>14583404

Exactly what I was thinking. You start cooking before the date, you moron. She was socially savvy enough to save you from this awkwardness by suggesting fast food.

Cooking together is a cool thing to do, but that is a date night thing for couples already in an established relationship, not the first date.

[Anonymous No.14583704]

>>14583550
cringe
you and op are gonna die alone

[Anonymous No.14583753]

>>14583569
Kek

[Anonymous No.14583766]

>>14583704
Nah, we're gonna combo cook in his nice, fancy kitchen then Eiffel Tower some broad.

[Anonymous No.14583854]

>>14583392
> split the check
Enjoy your last date with her you beta male.

[Anonymous No.14583877]

>>14583854
that was the point retard

[Anonymous No.14583892]

I like to have girls over and do drinks + rice paper rolls because they're pretty fun and easy to make so i can get her to help and they're
>zomg so fresh and healthy and exotic and deliciious !!1! how did you learn to do this
>let me show you babe

just mandoline a bunch of veges, buy some fried tofu or fry some chicken up, make a lil sauce, soak em, easy

last time i did this i cut the top of my thumb off on the mandolin though. huge amount of blood spraying everywhere. she ate the roll i had been making which had blood on it and took me to the hospital. very strange experience.

[Anonymous No.14583897]

For all you illiterates, where does OP infer that it was the first date? I'm waiting.

[Anonymous No.14584086]

>>14583897
He never said it wasn't either. And if he's willing to never date her again because of something like this I'm assuming they didn't know each other that well to begin with.

[BLACKENED RANCH No.14584205]

>>14583897
It was implied, you mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger. you probably diddle kids, don't (You) me

[Anonymous No.14584211]

>>14583392
>food is not ready before she arrives.
Lmao.

[Anonymous No.14584223]

>>14583411
That's a fucking horrible first date. That's a horrible second or third date. I would expect to go out to eat until I know somebody pretty damn well.
I think don't think I cooked for my gf until after we had spent a few nights together

[Anonymous No.14584257]

>>14583550
Seconding Mads Hannibal being fantastic. Just about done rewatching season one with my gf, her first time through it.

[Anonymous No.14584269]

>>14583392
I doubt this, sorry, anon Any normal girl would love her date cooking and sweating in the kitchen for her.
If it pays off is another story.

[Anonymous No.14584280]

>>14583411
>She complimented me on my "flowers".
something went wrong there.
but really it all depends on whether it was your first date or not.
I'd generally stick to spring rolls or something similar where the ingredients are pre-sliced when the date shows up. or an antipasti board

[Anonymous No.14584320]

>>14583569
lol

[Anonymous No.14584328]

>>14584223
so it would make a good second date (your gf is an irl whore)

[Anonymous No.14584346]

>be me
>sophomore in college
>have first long term gf
>parent's business goes bankrupt
>place i work at also closes
>get robbed and lose almost all my food money for the semester
>almost get evicted from college because i can't pay tuition or housing or anything
>i can't afford to take her out to restaurants
>cook my ass off to keep her satisfied
>everyone in my frat raves about how good my cooking is
>she complains that i can't take her out anymore
>i explain how poor i am, she doesn't believe me
>she dumps me

[Anonymous No.14584352]

>>14584346
Maybe you'd have money to take her out if you weren't paying to have friends. :^)

Frats are a fucking joke and you should feel bad for even mentioning you were in one.

[Anonymous No.14584378]

>>14584352
i wasn't paying to have friends.
my president knew how bad i was doing and let me cook in the kitchen on sundays (our chef didnt come in that day) for the whole house and in return i didn't have to pay dues.

[Anonymous No.14584392]

>>14584378
>Being an indentured servant to have friends
How pathetic.

[Anonymous No.14584402]

get past your 30's and you'll pay for anything, anons. Good foods. Casually sex with 18 yu babysitter. Great wine.

[Anonymous No.14584403]

>>14583392
>I split the check.
you always split the check you mongoloid

[Anonymous No.14584423]

>>14584392
i liked doing it you fag. welcome to /ck/ where people actually like to cook. don't you have an impossible whopper thread to shitpost in?

[Anonymous No.14584431]

>>14584423
I like to cook too. I would hate being forced to cook in order to live in a clubhouse with other spoiled brats.

[Anonymous No.14584442]

>>14584346
She dumped you because she took two seconds to google what goes on in frat houses (gay stuff)

[Anonymous No.14584461]

>>14584442
Very true, unless you're into group sex with multiple men I don't know why you would date anyone in a frat.

They also have no social skills, anyone who is competent can talk their way into any party they want, you don't need to pay a bunch of money to be part of a club and have connections.

[Anonymous No.14584500]

>>14584461
idk what the perception is of people who didn't do greek shit in college. the entire purpose is for people who don't have friends, to be forced to interact with other people who also don't know anyone.
you pay money and get benefits. you get dragged along to parties and events regularly, your beer is paid for, they organize shit. often there are rules like "if your GPA falls below X then you can't come to events" which is a way to enforce success.

it's a way of implementing structure for people who might not be able to handle being "real adults" right out of high school. it serves a purpose and while there is a lot of garbage that goes along with it (in the 4 years at my school, 3 fraternities were kicked off for hazing, one where a kid died).
it's not for everyone, and for most people it's just a thing you do for a couple years in college and move on, but it's also club to meet people who are your same age and also don't know anyone else and are sort of clueless as to who they are supposed to be.

yes you can do it yourself for free, but it requires discipline to say "i'm going to meet a bunch of people and find stuff to do", when in contrast you just meet up with your fraternity brothers every saturday or whatever.

[Anonymous No.14584516]

>>14584500
So basically what you've said is that frats are full of losers. Gotcha'. There are all sorts of clubs anyone can join on campuses that will fulfill the same purpose without the hazing and bullshit.

By the way, there's something seriously wrong with the institution as a whole of they're killing kids and getting kicked off of campuses. It sounds like you went to LSU because that timeline sounds similar to what I recall reading in the papers.

[Anonymous No.14584528]

>>14584378
Wait wait wait, students actually have to PAY to be in fraternities? You people actually pay to get shit on? LMAO americans

[Anonymous No.14584533]

>>14584528
greek life isn't exclusive to americans you dumb fuck there's a whole country dedicated to it

[Anonymous No.14584546]

>>14583892
She wanted you inside of her anon.

[Anonymous No.14584552]

>>14584516
>frats are full of losers
everyone's a loser. they won't play it that way, the fraternity system is meant to "inspire confidence" because while it is a "club", it's also (effectively) a business.

>without the hazing and bullshit.
definitely. i'm not saying it's "worth doing". it's bullying is what it is, and if you're a bitch they'll knock you around. i never got much of it, but i did do stupid shit like washing dishes and mopping because you get assigned bitch work. it's very lame, but it's perpetuated because "when i get done with this, i'll have someone else to deal with it for the next three years and i can just sit back". which is true. it is what it is. there is a deeper interaction with the fraternity than there is with say, some guys you meet up with to play baseball once a week, or the guys you do trivia with. it's almost militaristic in a boot-camp sense, the way it's regimented.
i'm not trying to sell you on the idea, if anything i'm trying to portray it in a negative light, but there are enjoyable parts. it is a shame the negative stuff is there also.

>went to LSU
you're correct. my roommate rushed ACACIA and was in the group that was hazed hard the year it was kicked off campus. stuff like pouring a bag of dog food on the ground and making them eat it, or busting open a carton of cigarettes and not letting them leave until they finished it.

[Anonymous No.14584583]

>>14583704
we all arfe, eventually

[Anonymous No.14584599]

>>14583392
It works for Mads because he's attractive, rich, and famous.

Also it's a fucking tv show and you're literally trying to emulate it. She doesn't want to be at your house cause you're a cringy faggot.

[Anonymous No.14584669]

>>14584552
Again, the method of operation for fraternities is basically that of child abuse.
>My daddy beat me, so my kids can take it too!
I'm glad you enjoyed your time in it, but even you admitted their full of tool bags and douches. Further, the networking aspect is completely overrated. Everyone acts like the friends you make in a frat will be your friends for the rest of your life; the truth is that friends you make later in life tend to just be stronger friends anyways simply because you have so much more freedom to choose them.

[Anonymous No.14584676]

>>14584533
Not even the point you fucking loser

[Anonymous No.14584750]

>>14584669
>basically that of child abuse
definitely. there's a lot of psychological manipulation there. i think that's inherent to any "secret society" though. like, i imagine if you're a police officer, there's that same sort of "abusive" power structure. anything selective where a person entering has little to offer and is potentially unable (or unwilling) to just walk away if treated poorly.
it doesn't HAVE to be that way, but some people act ethically only because they fear punishment. "the ones before me mistreated me, so i will mistreat you". there's a line between "we had a party here and you guys made a mess so you get to clean it up", and "you guys are going to smoke cigarettes until you throw up".

>full of tool bags and douches
the "good ones" are. if your fraternity has enough clout to have a nice house and have the best parties and alumni pull strings for you, then that breeds a certain level of entitlement among members. new pledges feel like they have something to prove, and old members feel like they can get away with more.
the smaller, less impressive fraternities are actually kind of more enjoyable from what i understand. there's less expectation and less demanded of you. there is a level of "oh he's in so-and-so fraternity, they'll take anyone". however, you go to the same parties and the same bars and the same football events. you hang out with the same sororities.

it's a status hangup, in the way that people feel bad about getting a degree from community college, even though it doesn't fucking matter if you're not going to a top 10 school.

>networking aspect is completely overrated. Everyone acts like the friends you make in a frat will be your friends for the rest of your life
it's immersion. it's not so much the people you meet in just your fraternity, but the people you meet at events and at clubs and so on. you are forced to interact with a fuckload of people. meet enough people, some will be good.

[Anonymous No.14584989]

>>14583415
this.

cooking together is a superb date activity

[Anonymous No.14585051]

>>14584528
>wait wait wait, you actually have to PAY for housing and food?
yes.

[Anonymous No.14585088]

>>14584500
Tbh people always complain about "duuuude I can't make new friends at college" so i can see the benefits of fraternities, too bad they're gay

[Anonymous No.14585125]

>>14584552
Lol just dont get hazed

[Anonymous No.14585336]

>>14583392
You made the right choice.
If the chemistry is Iffy, maybe try a coffee date first, but I've never had an issue with this approach---Just make sure she knows what she's in for FIRST. Not knowing and showing up in clothes meant to impress on a restaurant date would likely be disastrous in her eyes.
If you are truly looking for a gal who will cook with you, or just be impressed that you're cooking for her, MAKE SURE she knows that's what will be happening. Good Idea to have several options ready for choice, and if she's game, go get the ingredients together.
If cooking together is secondary...At least present the Idea first and see how it flies.

[Anonymous No.14585369]

>>14583392
You must be ugly. Wouldn't have happened if you were attractive

[Anonymous No.14585420]

>>14583569

[Anonymous No.14585483]

>>14584546
evidently she had some of him inside her

[Anonymous No.14586557]

>>14584500
Lol if you're unable to make friends just by yourself how are you going to meet people you actually like? All of the people I know that were/are in fraternities are still insecure losers that constantly try to impress everybody.

I just looked for the people that seemed chill enough to hang out with, and went with them. Don't have to force myself into anything.