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Why would you need communal kitchen?

RobertoG 11y ago
I suppose he miss explaining histories around a fire after a day of hunting in the wildness. There are something alienating in the way we live in big cities. We miss the palaeolithic.
- mhurron 11y ago
  > We miss the palaeolithic. Speak for yourself. All I see is forced interaction with people that are around you for reasons that have nothing to do with your choice to spend time with them.
  - adrusi 11y ago
    Except in the paleolithic these people would be your extended family, the friends you grew up with, etc. And because of the cultural homogeneity of such societies, you would get along better with them than people get along with their families today. In the modern context, these would be people you selected.
- soylentcola 11y ago
  Oddly enough, when I lived in more rural/suburban settings, I never really encountered anything I'd consider communal or primal/"paleolithic" but when I moved to a bigger city, I found many more ways to address those desires. Even if it's just having a corner bar where neighbors stop in for a meal or a beer in the evenings or getting together with nearby friends on various nights for board games or cookouts, I see a lot more community and shared activities. Much of it is only enabled by the proximity of urban life where the need to drive over to meet up is minimal or nonexistent. When I lived in the "boonies", any gathering had to be a lot more scheduled since you had to account for driving.
jhbadger 11y ago
Because the labor of cooking for 100 people isn't 100x the labor needed to cook for one. In grad school I lived in cooperative housing where one day every other week I had to help cook the evening meal for everyone else and just got to eat the other days. It was far more efficient than cooking every day for myself and far cheaper than restaurants.
- dreamdu5t 11y ago
  And what if you like to eat healthy but the other people like to eat lots of meat and processed food? Communes are great if nobody has mutually exclusive preferences
  - nickpinkston 11y ago
    In practice, you tend to have people of like-mind coming together and actually syncing preferences closer over time. It's been very efficient in any communal setting I've been in.
  - Retra 11y ago
    Sounds like you're hung up on a trivially solved problem for some reason.
    - dreamdu5t 11y ago
      What's the trivial solution?
      - Retra 11y ago
        Talk with your roommates or make your own food if you're a picky eater.
  - jhbadger 11y ago
    We had a vegetarian and a meat entree choice at each meal and the meals were fairly balanced. If there was anything to complain about it was that the food tended to be not highly spiced in order to reach the common denominator. But we had hot sauces and the like so that people could spice things up if they wanted.

I suppose he miss explaining histories around a fire after a day of hunting in the wildness. There are something alienating in the way we live in big cities. We miss the palaeolithic.

mhurron 11y ago
> We miss the palaeolithic. Speak for yourself. All I see is forced interaction with people that are around you for reasons that have nothing to do with your choice to spend time with them.
- adrusi 11y ago
  Except in the paleolithic these people would be your extended family, the friends you grew up with, etc. And because of the cultural homogeneity of such societies, you would get along better with them than people get along with their families today. In the modern context, these would be people you selected.
soylentcola 11y ago
Oddly enough, when I lived in more rural/suburban settings, I never really encountered anything I'd consider communal or primal/"paleolithic" but when I moved to a bigger city, I found many more ways to address those desires. Even if it's just having a corner bar where neighbors stop in for a meal or a beer in the evenings or getting together with nearby friends on various nights for board games or cookouts, I see a lot more community and shared activities. Much of it is only enabled by the proximity of urban life where the need to drive over to meet up is minimal or nonexistent. When I lived in the "boonies", any gathering had to be a lot more scheduled since you had to account for driving.

jhbadger 11y ago

Because the labor of cooking for 100 people isn't 100x the labor needed to cook for one. In grad school I lived in cooperative housing where one day every other week I had to help cook the evening meal for everyone else and just got to eat the other days. It was far more efficient than cooking every day for myself and far cheaper than restaurants.

dreamdu5t 11y ago
And what if you like to eat healthy but the other people like to eat lots of meat and processed food? Communes are great if nobody has mutually exclusive preferences
- nickpinkston 11y ago
  In practice, you tend to have people of like-mind coming together and actually syncing preferences closer over time. It's been very efficient in any communal setting I've been in.
- Retra 11y ago
  Sounds like you're hung up on a trivially solved problem for some reason.
  - dreamdu5t 11y ago
    What's the trivial solution?
    - Retra 11y ago
      Talk with your roommates or make your own food if you're a picky eater.
- jhbadger 11y ago
  We had a vegetarian and a meat entree choice at each meal and the meals were fairly balanced. If there was anything to complain about it was that the food tended to be not highly spiced in order to reach the common denominator. But we had hot sauces and the like so that people could spice things up if they wanted.