/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9257628]

How often do you splurge on "luxury ingredients"?

[Anonymous No.9257683]

>>9257628
like good canned tuna and capers i guess
fine cheeses really

[Anonymous No.9257697]

Not very, I'm tighter than a dolphins arse.

[Anonymous No.9257711]

>>9257628
>How often do you splurge on "luxury ingredients"?
I just shop per my whim and mood. I don't do seafood usually, so I honestly can't think of anything that is a true luxury. Overpriced cheese, or little jars of this or that, but mostly I just buy what I want to eat or make.

[Anonymous No.9257721]

>>9257697
How tight are dolphins arses?

[Anonymous No.9257741]

>>9257721
A little less than that guy

[Anonymous No.9257954]

>>9257721
Twice the dolphin, twice as tight... Only slightly radioactive.

[Anonymous No.9257995]

>>9257628
why THE FUCK does someone worth millions of dollars do the shopping themselves rather than hire a personal shopper?

did she purposely do this for the paparazzi shoot for whole foods?

[Anonymous No.9258030]

>>9257995
I literally could not let anyone else pick out my apples for me

[Anonymous No.9258049]

>>9257995
because believe it or not young multimillionaires usually aren't lazy pieces of shit. sure, plenty of celebs won't do this sort of thing. but is it that hard to believe that a few will do normal every day things and go out in public?

[Anonymous No.9258078]

>>9258049
>>9258030
>>9257995
no the real answer is most of them in extremely gated communities so the only time you actually ever see them out in public is doing something like this

and most of them are very much normalfags beyond their celebrity image

[Anonymous No.9258090]

>>9258078
>normalfags
Not Tay. She's high functioning.

[Anonymous No.9258140]

>>9257628
Sometimes ill buy alcohol that isn't just technically safe to drink

[Anonymous No.9258150]

>>9257954
What the fuck is that

[Anonymous No.9258170]

>>9257628
You mean like buy Dr Pepper instead of Dr Thunder?

[Anonymous No.9258194]

>>9257954
Going to need a quick rundown on this image.

[Anonymous No.9258235]

>>9257711
>mostly I just buy what I want to eat or make

this is pretty much what I do, but I normally let what's in season or on sale influence my purchases a lot. groceries that are in season are generally cheaper.

probably once every other month I'll splurge on a pricey ingredient that I normally don't buy. Beef tenderloin, lamb chops, or morelles are things that usually price themselves right off my radar when I'm at the market, but if there's a reason to celebrate, I'll splurge.

I think my next "treat" might be sea bass. That shit was $30/lbs the last time I went to my fish monger. At that price, it's gotta be fancy, right?

[Anonymous No.9258272]

>>9258078
>most of them in extremely gated communities

tim cook is worth a lot more than taylor swift and he literally lives 5 minutes WALKING DISTANCE from the palo alto apple store

not in a gated community either, in a normal house on a normal street

you could literally go there and take a dump on his driveway if you wanted

[Anonymous No.9258280]

>>9258235
What's wrong with the one on top's eye? :(

[Anonymous No.9258291]

>>9258280
He's seen some shit

[Anonymous No.9258298]

>>9258280
Kind of looks how i generally feel

[Anonymous No.9258463]

>>9257628
Usually I'll buy one or two pricey items per grocery store trip.

[Anonymous No.9258537]

>>9258272

Sounds like a plan. On and, Palo Alto is basically a gated community in and of itself.

[Anonymous No.9258567]

>>9258090

Was it autism?

[Anonymous No.9258572]

>>9258272
Wtf he only drives a 528

[Anonymous No.9258577]

I'm at a point in my life where brand name is a luxury item. Heinz tastes better than generic, so that's one of my big purchases.

[Anonymous No.9258612]

>>9257628
Usually every 1 and 1/2 weeks I buy more meat. & if my grocery store has its dried aged done I buy 1 or 2 steaks. If its not ready I buy a large portion of flank, or prime ribeye.

My roommate works for a wine wholesaler & often good pairing are at already in the fridge. She also gets interesting spices.

[Anonymous No.9258713]

>>9258090
No she's just a Blondie with daddies money.

[Anonymous No.9258714]

>>9258572
dude is a billionaire and lives in a smaller house than even steve jobs did

[Anonymous No.9258739]

>be me
>move to a new area
>want to make pasta for dinner
>go shopping
>pick up a bit of parmesan cheese from the cheese shelf, don't see price anywhere
>finish shopping and go check out
>girl rings up my cheese
>"Uh this cheese costs $27, are you sure you want it?"
>already anxious from social interaction but start overloading
>"o-oh yeah that's fine"
>she cocks an eyebrow and looks at me
>"Are you sure?"
>"y-yeah heh it's fine"
>"You must really like cheese" she says as she rings it up
>"heh y-yeah"
>go home with $27 cheese
>use maybe an eighth of it, it doesn't even taste that good
>sits at the back of the fridge for months
>find it molding one day
>throw it out

[Anonymous No.9258759]

>>9258739
this is why you buy the smallest pieces of parmesan you can find

[Anonymous No.9258777]

>>9257628
Never. The only time I eat for more than 3 euros a day is when I have ice cream or am trying something new.

[Anonymous No.9258792]

Unless you count imported Chinese tea not often.

[Anonymous No.9258807]

>>9258272
>tim cook is worth a lot more than taylor swift and he literally lives 5 minutes WALKING DISTANCE from the palo alto apple store
>not in a gated community either, in a normal house on a normal stre
I gotta say that borders on reckless. Kidnapping is a real thing, in the US as well as in Europe.

[Anonymous No.9258814]

>>9258807
>I gotta say that borders on reckless. Kidnapping is a real thing, in the US as well as in Europe.

don't know why it's never happened then

he isn't the only one to live this lifestyle

[Anonymous No.9259125]

Every time I go shopping for a specific dish, or do my big shop, really.

I keep a well-stocked pantry which frees up money to buy some nice stuff once in a while.

[Anonymous No.9259153]

>>9258814
ok just for fun I'll give two examples that actually hilariously prove your point b/c they are so far in the past:
patty hearst
charles lindbergh, jr.

[Anonymous No.9259160]

when i first started cooking i was a retard, spending like 5 quid on 3 chicken breasts (where i could get a whole chicken for 2.50) I learnt my lesson, buy whole chickens and divide that fucker.

[Anonymous No.9259165]

>>9258759
nah fuck that
i got a whole wheel when i was in italy, bought it home, used my italian neighbour's parmesan grater and bulk froze it, it can go straight on pasta or in sauces from frozen.

[Jake No.9259233]

>>9257628
>How often do you splurge on "luxury ingredients"?
What do you define as luxury items?
Stuff like caviar and "name brand" champagne you'd see with nuveaux riche russians or retard rappers?
Never. (Though I'd like to try caviar, DESU)

Or just stuff the average basement dweller can't afford or sees as so far beyond his tendie event horizon that he can't comprehend it?
All the time.
If I buy some meat, it's mostly organic, I always have some high quality, expensive olive and pumpkin seed oil at hand, wine is also never cheap stuff, and so on.
But I don't really see this as luxury.

[Anonymous No.9259287]

>>9259160
here in the US a fryer or a broiler is fucking expensive. Its cheaper to get a roast chicken from costco I kid you not.

[Anonymous No.9259290]

The only thing I buy that could be considered luxurious are freshly roasted coffee beans

[Anonymous No.9259296]

>>9258272
I live in the Bay Area and tech companies are literally everywhere. They aren't jerks if you walk in either. People think that they are monolithic soulless corporate giants but they are pretty nice and do listen to walk ins. I was at the nearest Carls Jr. like a year ago and remembered Youtube was the building right next door so I went over and told them something that was bothering me about Youtube. They filed it as a legit complaint then gave me free juice and a frisbee. They may have shredded it after I left for all I know but at least they were nice.

[Jordan !Jordan.UwQ No.9259301]

>>9258713
I went to high school with her. She was a freshman to my senior. She performed in the talent show and someone told me that she got a record deal and I lold because her performance was poor.

[Anonymous No.9259306]

Luxury goods that I buy?
>Cheese
>Salmon
>Steak
>Venison
>Chocolate
>Coffee

[Anonymous No.9259314]

i generally try to buy the "best" of whatever it is that i am buying. that´s not always necessarily a luxury good, but, for example, at least here in europe the epxensive parmesan cheese generally is miles better than the cheap stuff AND you need much less, so it does not even come out that much more expensive in the end.

[Anonymous No.9259348]

>>9259296
P.s. Carls Jr. on the left, Youtube on the right.

[Anonymous No.9259359]

>>9259348
I was also at this starbucks getting one of those thai chicken peanut roll things the other day. Twitter on the left.

[Anonymous No.9259377]

>>9259296
Corporations are not people

[Anonymous No.9259611]

>>9259233
You should try caviar sometime, anon. Treat it like oysters, something special. Really is worth it.

[Anonymous No.9259623]

>>9257711
this

sometimes i spend a lot on cured pork or a nice cheese from the deli

[Anonymous No.9259652]

>>9257628

I used o spend about $2-300/mo on scotch but the doc said I inherited a gene that fucks with my liver and that if I continue drinking I will get both liver and lung cancer. Now the most expensive things I buy are good oil and vinegar.

[Anonymous No.9259679]

>>9257628
That is one lanky transexual.

[Anonymous No.9259691]

>>9258713
But that's wrong, my mentally challenged friend.

[Anonymous No.9259775]

>>9259691
Only thing more annoying than that lanky cunt is her fanboys.

[Anonymous No.9259779]

>>9259377
Corporations are definitely people you racist. What shithole country do you live in?

[Anonymous No.9259787]

>>9259775
But that's wrong, my mentally challenged friend.

[Anonymous No.9259924]

Why does it seem like every celebrity shops at Whole Foods?

[Jordan !Jordan.UwQ No.9259986]

>>9259924
Less poor people than other stores

[Anonymous No.9260068]

>>9259775
Found the jealous roastie. Your boyfriend thinks of TayTay when he fucks you.

[Anonymous No.9260227]

>>9259775
We'll leave you alone if you don't talk shit about our girl.

[Anonymous No.9260393]

>>9259153
these are examples of rich/famous people's relatives being abducted, not the rich/famous themselves

so the rich/famous have nothing to worry about.. only their family members

[Anonymous No.9260838]

>>9257995
If you spend shit tons on money on ridiculous services like a personal shopper then you won't be a millionaire anymore

[Anonymous No.9260842]

>>9260838
>how poor people think: the post

[Anonymous No.9260864]

>>9260227
To be fair, she does look like a duck.

[Anonymous No.9260866]

>>9260838
How much do you think it would cost to have someone spend an hour or two a week getting groceries? I think the millionaires will manage to budget that 300 bucks a month.

[Anonymous No.9260867]

>>9257628
I don't have luxury ingredients. I have ingredients. If you can buy it in a supermarket, it's not a luxury.

[Anonymous No.9260877]

>>9260867

[Anonymous No.9260880]

>>9258714
Honestly, if I became rich, I wouldn't suddenly start buying mansions and supercars. I'd get a nice reasonably sized house or flat and a decent car, some nicer suits, etc. But I wouldn't go splurging on ridiculous stuff.

[Anonymous No.9260889]

>>9258235
Seabass is good but it might have been priced that way due to availability.

[Anonymous No.9260904]

>>9260880
This, I don't want all my shit spread out, I want it all in one place. Why buy a big house when you can spend the money on a nice small house and a lot of cool tech.

[Anonymous No.9260910]

Someone who hires a personal shopper probably has a bunch of other unneeded expenditures. Maybe a chef, a dog walker, cleaning services. They add up fast.

[Anonymous No.9260916]

>>9260880
>>9260904
I would have some impractical cars, but I'm a racing fan. I'd go with a reasonable house too, just want a pool and a nice home gym. Most of my spending money would go towards races, football games, and Taylor Swift concerts.

[Anonymous No.9260925]

>/ck/ - where poor people try to validate being poor

[Anonymous No.9260928]

>>9257995
Of course it was for exposure. Swift only cares about being famous and getting more money, just like any other celebrity. All the shit she does for her fans and all the fights she gets into with other musicians are just PR stunts.

[Anonymous No.9260947]

>>9257995
It's staged shit for PR purposes to make them look normal. I used to work at a Whole Foods where we had celebs (Jennifer Lawrence came to ours multiple times) do this too. They have one of their people call in a few weeks before, we'd let them in a hour before the store opens. The "people" in the store are screened actors they bring in, usually only 4-5 people and maybe 2 kids or babies to make it look legit.

[Anonymous No.9261029]

>>9260925
Just look at lottery winners, they spend all their money on shit they can't afford and end up in debt two years later. If I were rich, I'd hire a financial advisor so that didn't happen to me.

[Anonymous No.9261052]

>>9261029
Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't understand how you could do that without being literally retarded. At worst, you should have to sell your mansion and supercars to live a comfy upper-middle class life without working.

[Anonymous No.9261096]

>>9261052
It's true, they spend their money frivolously and give a lot of it away to family members who all magically show up with their hands out. The lottery winner ends up worse off than where they started after a couple years.

http://time.com/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lottery-winners/

[Anonymous No.9261126]

>>9259377
Corporations are comprised of people, though. Some of those people might be nice.

[Anonymous No.9261148]

>>9257995
If i could afford a personal shopper i wouldn't trust them to not fuck up my groceries. I'd probably just send them out to buy me apple cider, eggs, and bread.

[Anonymous No.9261177]

>>9257628
Whenever I think Tay could touch it

[Anonymous No.9261426]

bought pic related because i wanted to have it with my salmon. thought the price was $3.99/lb, but it was actually $3.99 per little rubber banded bundle. paid $8 for three servings of fancy broccoli. never again.

[Anonymous No.9261435]

I wonder if I sent food to TayTay and asked her very politely to rub her feet all over it, that she'd do it.

[Anonymous No.9261456]

>>9260838
There are people in my area who use private shoppers and it's a middle class suburb. For an A list celeb it's literal pocket change.

[Anonymous No.9261458]

>>9257995
I wouldn't hire one if I were suddenly super wealthy. I'm not familiar with the girl's history but I'm guessing she grew up doing her own shopping and cooking and she just stuck with it.
Hiring people to shop for you and wipe your arse is more for folks who were always rich, I think.

On topic, I don't go cheap on cheese and meat. I go very cheap on the rest but still try to get good quality stuff; fresh in-season vegetables etc.

[Anonymous No.9261516]

>>9258272
Him and all those silicon valley types have bunkers filled with food and guns awaiting the day when anti-proproietary pitchfork peasants come for them

[Anonymous No.9261566]

>>9257721
Water tight

[Anonymous No.9261581]

>>9258170
Whoooaaa! Easy there Rockefeller!

[Anonymous No.9261589]

I feed two people on a budget of about $40 a week, so I'm not splurging on much in the way of luxury ingredients. The splurge money is the wine bill, which ends up being $75-$100 a week. Rather drink good wine with humble food than luxury food and mediocre wine.

[Anonymous No.9261592]

>>9260947

[Anonymous No.9261612]

>>9257995
She probably gets someone else to do it 90% of the time. And I'm sure she wouldn't be cooking more than 1-2 meals a week. But I imagine celebs would feel like doing normal people things every now and then.

[Anonymous No.9261620]

Have yet to find coffee under $12/lb that doesn't taste like charred rat shit.

[Anonymous No.9261627]

>>9261029
>If I were rich, I'd hire a financial advisor
How to lose half your shit without getting a divorce.

[Anonymous No.9261640]

>>9261052
Being temporarily poor is understandable, but generational poverty is a product of poor financial decisions. I had some tenants who would always pay rent late and complain about having trouble putting food on the table when they had obviously spent their paychecks on a new ATV and shit.

[Anonymous No.9261652]

>>9257628
Not very often.

My main splurges are USDA Prime beef, good wine/beer, and pricey cheeses, none of which are really used as ingredients, but rather enjoyed mostly as they are. The only thing that I use as an ingredient that I pay quite a bit for is good parmesan.

[Anonymous No.9261657]

>>9257628
I just bought a tiny amount of parmesan / Italian style cheese for 2 euros just to have some pasta.

I miss the cheap Kraft parmesan of the US.

[Anonymous No.9261664]

>>9259287
A chicken is cheaper than an appliance, no shit.

Unitasker doesn't mean you should use it only once you humongous donut.

[Anonymous No.9261669]

>>9261664

[Anonymous No.9261974]

>>9261592
Wow cool gif you should post it on /r/4chan for some sweet karma

[Anonymous No.9261984]

>>9261640
Please refrain from posting racially charged and factually incorrect images on /ck/ in the future.

[Anonymous No.9262071]

>>9261984
I'm sorry anon. I'll go turn myself in.

[Anonymous No.9262075]

>>9257628
Never. Walmart brand foods are the go-to.

[Anonymous No.9262087]

>>9258150
>>9258194
Well he did say radioactive, so Fukishima?

[Anonymous No.9262450]

>>9259611
Yeah, and not all caviar is crazy expensive either. I just had a 3oz can of alaskan salmon roe in my fridge, it cost me $5.50.

[Anonymous No.9263482]

>>9262450
Salmon roe isn't caviar

[Anonymous No.9263512]

>>9257628
How often do you splurge on "luxury ingredients"?
Like once every several months I'll bulk order something like sherry vinegar, nutritional yeast, or some good quality bulk chocolate but that's about it. Well, if King Arthur counts as luxury flour there's that I guess.

>>9261652
I've never even seen Prime-grade beef being sold IRL, only Choice.

>>9259290
>>9259306
>>9261620
How do make your coffee? French Press? Aeropress? Pour-over?

[Anonymous No.9263519]

>>9257628
My only luxury ingredient is jumbo shrimp instead of regular shrimp. That's only once or twice a year when I make my favorite dish and want to impress.

[Anonymous No.9263527]

>>9263512
I'm not him but I use a french press, and was probably going to get a few pounds of raw brazilian santos to roast/grind myself. any advice?

[Anonymous No.9263544]

>>9263512
whaddya do with all that choco, boy?

[Anonymous No.9263560]

>>9263544
Not my pic, but brownies, cookies, cakes, frosting, etc.

[Anonymous No.9263572]

>>9259348
I went to this Carl's Jr before. The manager and staff there are really nice.

[Anonymous No.9263574]

How much do you guys pay for meat? I pretty much always have pork meat instead of beef because I find it so expansive.

[Anonymous No.9263581]

>>9257628
rarely only when they are extremely discounted

[Anonymous No.9263604]

>>9259924
no niggers at whole foods except the famous ones

[Anonymous No.9263614]

>>9261052
trust me if it happens to you all of a sudden all those people you knew in high school and all those relatives you never heard of come out of the wood work

[Anonymous No.9263632]

Normally when celebrating, or having people over. When I'm cooking for myself I just use run of the mill stuff, but if I'm cooking for people I'm damned if they're not going to have as good an eating experience as I can manage

Remember, the logical purpose of life is to increase net happiness and pass on as much information to the next generation. You cook an amazing meal, you'll get people asking for the recipe, tips, all that good shit. They enjoy it enough, they keep the recipe in the family, passing it down and down. When you're dead and gone the only thing truly remaining of you is the happiness you gave others, and the knowledge you passed on

[Anonymous No.9264219]

>>9260838
If she needed something urgent Whole foods have same day delivery, and the price isn't that crazy for a multimillionaire.

>It's free for the first order. After that, $3.99 for two-hour delivery and $5.99 for one-hour

[Anonymous No.9264404]

>>9257628
>ywn put a Whole Foods cucumber in TSwizzles pussy

[Anonymous No.9265640]

I buy the more expensive eggs. Salmon or steelhead trout occasionally.

[Anonymous No.9265649]

>>9258150
It's a Double Dolphin.

[Anonymous No.9266564]

>>9259679
i'm like 99 % straight but if there were a girl tay and a transgirl tay i might go with the trans just for the novelty
what an excellent specimen

[Anonymous No.9266584]

Prime steaks
Pasture-raised chicken
Heirloom organic produce
Expensive wine
Premium grains

Very often

[Anonymous No.9266700]

>>9261984
>factually incorrect
it's completely true lad
t. Chicago

[Anonymous No.9266703]

>>9264404
>not putting your benis in for the sole purpose of procreation
>with handholding
it's like you don't know how to live

[Anonymous No.9266723]

smoked paprika is one of my favorite splurge

[Anonymous No.9267674]

>>9261426
puntarelle are fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.9267766]

>>9257995
I really enjoy doing groceries, it's oftrn the highlight of my day. Then again the scope of my entertainment options is vastly different to hers.

[Anonymous No.9267802]

>>9267766
Same, I like to see, touch and smell what I buy and no, i'm not a dirty fat sweaty neckbeard

[Anonymous No.9267811]

How does a Chad go grocery shopping?

It seems like the grocery store would not be a natural environment for a Chad.

[Anonymous No.9267904]

>>9259377
Legally they are, that's why you can sue a corporation but not the people running it

[Anonymous No.9268164]

>>9257995
I've seen Tracy Morgan 3 times now in the past 6 months at my local ACME. Note even Whole Foods or some high end place. Some celebs just don't mind I guess? If I see him a 4th time I'll ask him and let you know what he says anon.