On: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

[mg]

    recipes to make when you've worked a 16-hour day

Why not just sit down in a restaurant on your way home?

Or if you worked at home, take a nice walk and sit down in a nice restaurant along the way?

[aix1 → mg]

There are many places in the world and levels of income where sitting down at a restaurant after a long day is simply not an option.

Then there are different personalities: depending on the nature of that hypothetical 16-hour workday, I might not want to deal with people and would much prefer to fix something up on my own.

Then there's time: a meal at a nice restaurant will likely take some time. If I've really just worked 16 hours straight, I'd likely be wanting to hit the sack asap rather than waiting around to be served. (I'm excluding fast food both for nutritional reasons and since we're specifically taking about "nice restaurants".)

[thinkingemote → mg]

1. Because they are a "sad bastard"

(And not a highly paid programmer)

2. It's a recipe book

(For cooking by oneself not a self help book for fixing ones sad bastardness)

[maerF0x0 → thinkingemote]

Speaking from experience Highly paid programmers can be sad bastards.

[fsloth → mg]

I don't think eating out is an option for the demographic of this cookbook as a startegy for acquiring daily sustenance.

[pacija → mg]

Or, even better, why not let them eat cake?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

[Smaug123 → mg]

Even without considering money, I'm not really aware of a restaurant which is compatible with the mental state that's physically expressed as "lying in bed without moving"; this book is for people in that mental state.

[j7ake → mg]

Japanese people have ramen joints for quick and satisfying meals after a 16 hour day.

[dm319 → j7ake]

My impression is that they're reasonably priced - is that true? Could a student exist without cooking facilities by eating at ramen joints?

[j7ake → dm319]

Yeah, young Japanese professionals can eat out every meal.

Ramen is maybe 3 to 6 dollars.

[pawelmurias → mg]

In many cities the restaurant food sucks and you also spend a lot of time going there and waiting for them to make it.

[currymj → mg]

quite possibly all the restaurants are closed because your 16 hour day ends at midnight?

[yur3i__ → mg]

Because I got bills lol