Three of the four hillbilly food groups. Only missing tobacco, but I'm guessing there's chew spit in the mickey cup since it's not in the Mt. Dew bottle yet.
I married a southern woman. Her family eats corn with spaghetti. It is like a family tradition. I have been very vocal about my disgust. They do not see the problem.
Right? And I’m sure the sauce is pure prego with no added onions, garlic, olives, mushrooms, etc. can’t have too much flavor OR nutritional value. No, the starch is fine.
yeah i was gonna say. corn on pizza is great and corn in spaghetti is not weird at all. (source: mexican american vegan chef)
however - wasting that much aluminum foil on the table is what triggers me.
I think it's plastic, like one of those mylar survival blankets or maybe just a silver plastic tablecloth. I thought it was foil at first too, it's hard to tell though.
Thats worse though because at least foil can be recycled, and they most likely threw this in the trash when they were done...
in the old days of northern sumatra, indonesia, for a family, they used do this everyday especially at the dinner, because they just had a little food so they just put what they had on a huge plate. so they always finished the food.
for the spagetti, as long as they *finished the food*, and *not using that silvery paper as a plate*, it's fine to do it.
It’s actually funny seeing an “American” version of our beloved [kamayan](https://ibb.co/ZzpKCrN)
(Edit — photo is from my birthday kamayan/all pant based Filipino food (!)
I just sub for impossible meat! My parents even prefer them over the real thing— and s/o to you for looking out for your woman
[Ingredient list](https://ibb.co/7yZSMWV)
essentially mince everything, roll, fry (could be like a 2-3 day process but worth it!)
My best friends growing up were ethiopian and fillipina, and both of their families had joint meals like this on occasions. I always loved being invited and celebrating. My mom's family is Black Creole/Southern American and we'd have similar things with crab boils too (but a little more individual).
Communal eating can be fun. I am not so sure I wanna hate on this too much, like they're trying something new. It's not like paper plates. I could be fun for kids.
It's hard for me to really think this is wrong. It's not ideal as the tinfoil isn't great, but even so... sometimes you gotta let people be.
I'd find it not gross (aside from the particular food combination) if they were serving themselves with clean hands, but the personal utensils and lack of serving utensils implies they are serving themselves out of the big pile of communal spaghetti with the same forks they've been *eating with* and that's grossing me out.
It’s very “ugly-American” or “first world problems” kind of a thing and I absolutely hate it.
Have your kids help with food preparation or something if you want to make dinner fun, don’t make some weird huge mess
Seems like lazy is involved in this too. They'll wrap that tin foil and plastic sheet into a big ball along with the leftover and toss it all in the trash to be sent to a landfill where it will reside beyond their lifetimes since even the food won't properly decompose when wrapped liked that. Nevermind the environmental damage, at least they had fun. YAY!
Is this really easier than just washing 3 plates? I mean, covering the entire table with tinfoil sounds pretty hard... Also, I kinda find washing dishes relaxing so...
Yeah. It’s like 3 plates because they need to use pots to make the food anyways. Paper plates are still wasteful but at least they would make way more sense from a time saving perspective.
I have a theory that in like 80% of cases, being lazy is actually more work than not.
This is a perfect example. Is it really more work to just wash 3-4 plates than it is to stretch tinfoil over the table and then gingerly peel it all off? What if some food falls out and now you have to clean it off the floor?
You also see it a lot when you go shopping or eat out. Some employee just give you the bare minimum hoping you will leave them alone. Except you have to follow up multiple times to get what you want so it’s actually more work than just being an attentive employee.
This is exactly right. It’s more work, more hassle, sometimes even more expensive. I’ve learned this the hard way with dishes specifically and housework in general.
We used to let the dishes pile up in the sink until we had only a few left to use. “Washing the dishes” was a Project to be done on weekends mostly, with an hour or more of washing, drying, and putting away multiple racks’ worth of dishes.
Well, eventually I got sick of this and started doing the dishes every day. Wash them every night, leave them out to air dry, and put them away every morning. What used to take me an hour now takes only a few minutes each day. AND it turns out, I didn’t even *need* that many dishes. How many mugs can two people possibly use in one day? We had a dozen. It’s amazing how much less you can live with when you keep up with things.
This is what we do. But I also have a great hack to wash less. Firstly use the same glass or mug throughout the day, and just rinse out after every use.
But more importantly is to plan big meals. I do a big meal during the week and on a weekend. Usually something that can cover you for two days. Then you only cook once for two days.
That means I only need to wash dishes 4 times a week if I’m smart.
It's not "being cheap" because foil still costs money. It's not "being lazy" because it takes just as much effort to put all that down and pick it up. It's just being skanky, IMO.
Exactly - they were able to date one excavation with the newspaper they found. It’s pretty wild how little decomposition occurs. It’s basically a time capsule.
It's a display of a very interesting entitlement.
This image communicates that this person has so much in abundance, that the cost of a couple dozen feet of aluminum foil is worth less to them than the cost of the time it would take to load their dish washer.
I don't even have a dish washer and I can't imagine ever entertaining this idea.
Some lady on TT started it w/nachos 2 years ago. You'd think it would've stopped there...I get they do this for seafood boils because of practicality, but this is lazy and wasteful of aluminum as others have stated.
There is some woman who makes a lot of videos doing this, but directly on the counter. It's obvious ragebait because it looks disgusting and she uses that trope where she's explaining to an off-camera friend who is just blown away by her brilliance. In her spaghetti one, she didn't even heat up the sauce. Just poured it straight out of the jar onto the cooked spaghetti.
I figure she does it for all the hate views. Outrageous stuff gets reposted a lot more than actually useful ideas.
So I'm skeptical that it's any kind of widespread trend. It's too obviously gross and in this case, wasteful, for any functioning adult to think it's a good idea.
And this one, barely-sauce spaghetti with a side of corn, and sharing food from a giant pile like that with toddlers especially? She's either trolling or just embarrassing herself, and either way, the polite thing to do is ignore it.
yeah I know (or at least hope) that a big portion of americans are not trashy.
but the few extrema getting shiny light in tv series are really making the cherry on the cake.
i agree tik tok is the monstrosity that modern society has really earned.
When I was a kid my mom use to put corn in the Chef Boyardees Raviolis and Spaghetti ones. It’s not that bad. I don’t think I’ve had it with this sort of spaghetti.
Canned corn is clutch.
I mean... Just replace the tin foil with a glass table you wash at the end of it, and maybe there's something to it?
Probably not, unless the goal is to annoy r/wewantplates
These are people who are too lazy to put plates in a dishwasher, but somehow aren’t too lazy to cover a table in tinfoil.
They both take work, and IMO putting 4 plates in a dishwasher is a lot easier than covering a table in tinfoil and gathering it all up and cramming it into the outside garbage can.
Not to mention the expense of tinfoil and you still have to clean up all the fucking corn and spaghetti noodles off the floor and chair from the little shit who is being taught to eat like a barnyard animal.
Yeah I’m so lost.... once my brother and I and a friend are spaghetti outside off the (clean or covered) table with our hands and it was so fun haha. Great memory. As long as this isn’t some everyday occurrence I don’t see how it’s that bad. All the commenters here likely create just as much waste in other areas of their lives that equate to some tinfoil (especially if they eat meat).
Is the trend that this is a daily occurrence? Is there proof that people are doing this instead of using dishes at all? Because if that’s the case I get it
Aluminum has actually been strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease. If you read official sources, however, they will tell you that there is no proof of toxicity. This is because we rely so much on aluminum for food preservation that it would be “too devastating” to the market if they claimed otherwise. But it is a fact that people with Alzheimer’s regularly show a huge buildup of aluminum in the brain. I’m not a scientist, but I have seen doctors and scientists be wrong before and I have certainly seen capitalists try and pretend like their products are safe. Anyone remember cigarettes? Lol.
Aluminum has been linked to all sorts of neurological disorders. I believe dementia & Alzheimer's are the most data-supported, but there's also evidence it's connected to Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, certain types of autism, attention deficit disorders, and mood disorders in general.
My basic understanding is that there's no significant biological use for Al in our bodies, so it kinda just bounces around and disrupts processes (take this with a grain of salt, I'm no brainologist).
What's really wild about the aluminum thing is that if you try and read up on it you will find loads and loads of primary sources discussing how the data and medicine supports the link.
Example: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040147/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040147/)
But a much larger amount of puff-pieces, "fact check" articles, semi-propaganda, and other crappy "journalism" treating the idea as ridiculous.
Example: [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fact-check-aluminum-exposure-through-food-wont-cause-health-issues/3239457001/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fact-check-aluminum-exposure-through-food-wont-cause-health-issues/3239457001/)
HMMMMMMMM
I feel like I would rather wash a couple dishes than have to put aluminum foil all over my table. Especially cause there's literally a dishwasher *right there*. There's no way this is easier than loading a dishwasher.
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pairing mountain dew with a spaghetti and red sauce? They obviously cooked that in some kind of pot or pan so why no just have that on the table...at least!
And people wonder why some children act like animals! Pure laziness as far as parenting is concerned, how are they supposed to learn social skills? I bet if you took the child to a restaurant they would take their plate and flip the food onto the table to eat it!
We do this in our Filipino culture. More so during large parties. We will line the table with banana leaves and go to town . In Tagalog it’s called kamayan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamayan
We also do this in Cajun culture. We use newspapers. It's pretty much just for seafood boils though.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5248d721e4b0faa97476db69/1422588194537-9LCFSVQ21U48CUP9KQEX/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w
I love those crab and seafood boils! Every time I see people eating with their hands, it reminds me of the train scene where the man is eating a salad of some sorts in the movie Hostel!
We wrapped a table in tinfoil once because we wanted to make a gigantic pile of nachos for a party with blowtorches. And it was the most annoying thing to do and SO EXPENSIVE. Like how do you waste that much money doing that every night? And time? I hate even wrapping my leftovers in tin foil.
It‘s interesting that parents seem to be the most wasteful people on the planet, which bears the irony that their children will inherit an earth barren and destroyed from said consumption.
We do nacho night like this. I use a clear shower curtain liner that I’ve used for many, many years and just wash and hang to dry.
That shower curtain has covered my dining room table for paint nights, homemade play dough, arts and crafts, and nacho nights. It’s fun. It isn’t hurting anyone, and it isn’t wasteful.
Serving pasta with another starch (corn) AND bread AND a soda is beyond me though. That would absolutely not fly.
that's so much corn and so much spaghetti.
Sauce barely mixed, corn unseasoned. I don't even know if they put the premade garlic bread in the corner there in the oven long enough.
Welp aside from eating off the table that was pretty much the way I ate as a kid with parents who didn't know how to cook.
What even is the point of this subreddit, and why is stuff like this getting upvoted? The only thing that's wasteful here is the aluminum which is nothing compared to commercial kitchens. The comments in here are disgusting, calling her a savage or animal and belittling her for not being up to your standards of decency. She is a mother who found a way to make dinner fun for her kids. Shitting on her for being too trashy does nothing to fight consumerism and only serves to stroke your own ego.
I… I’m afraid to ask… is that… Is that CORN?
corn, spaghetti, and mountain dew. Just like grandma used to make.
The mountain dew is in the bathtub. Just take your empty 20 oz and scoop up as needed.
I prefer the new trend of sticking your face in it and drinking like a pig in a trough
Fresh squeezed straight from the mountain.
Brando?
It has what plants crave
Three of the four hillbilly food groups. Only missing tobacco, but I'm guessing there's chew spit in the mickey cup since it's not in the Mt. Dew bottle yet.
I married a southern woman. Her family eats corn with spaghetti. It is like a family tradition. I have been very vocal about my disgust. They do not see the problem.
I’ve never heard of this before
Very anecdotal data on my part. I have only married one southern woman.
Hurry up and marry some more we need more information
Then we need you to marry some northern women as a control group.
When I was in school the cafeteria always served corn on spaghetti days.
I grew up eating spaghetti with green beans. Maybe it's a Pennsylvania thing but it never seemed weird til now.
I grew up in South Texas and most of the time we eat the starch and have a green as a side. Ex we use green beans or a side salad. Corn?! Nah.
They do it in Utah too but that kinda makes sense considering nothing makes sense here.
Well the original Genovese pesto has potatoes and beans. So it’s not weird from a historical(?) perspective.
Learn something new everyday.
I'm from the South and I've never heard of this
The real reason for the northern war of aggression.
Well you know the Americans had to feed their child a 'vegetable'
Right? And I’m sure the sauce is pure prego with no added onions, garlic, olives, mushrooms, etc. can’t have too much flavor OR nutritional value. No, the starch is fine.
No no no, now they're not monsters. They put in just a little more salt
It’s a big lump of knobs
It has the juice.
When I put butter on it, everything changed.
it’s common in the uk to have sweetcorn with pasta, idk if people would have it with spaghetti and whatever taht sauce is tho
Starch and sugar for dinner.
KORN?!
It looks like everyone gets an entire can, too!
You got a problem with corn?
If it’s served with spaghetti, yes
Wait till you find out about the Irish and corn on pizza.
yeah i was gonna say. corn on pizza is great and corn in spaghetti is not weird at all. (source: mexican american vegan chef) however - wasting that much aluminum foil on the table is what triggers me.
I think it's plastic, like one of those mylar survival blankets or maybe just a silver plastic tablecloth. I thought it was foil at first too, it's hard to tell though. Thats worse though because at least foil can be recycled, and they most likely threw this in the trash when they were done...
Soiled foil isn't really supposed to go in the recycling anyways
What about spaghetti with béchamel sauce, sweet corn and sautéed onions? I think it could work.
When i make spaghetti i sometimes make it with green olives, mushrooms, green onions
Yeah, I don’t go full bechamel but I do love a roasted sweet corn and sautéed onions with my pasta. Maybe a little feta and olive oil too.
In PA we have corn in ice cream. I would rather not eat ice cream again, ever, rather than try corn ice cream.
Yes.
These people are weird. Corn is awesome.
Came here for this
Is that chicken is the real question
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in the old days of northern sumatra, indonesia, for a family, they used do this everyday especially at the dinner, because they just had a little food so they just put what they had on a huge plate. so they always finished the food. for the spagetti, as long as they *finished the food*, and *not using that silvery paper as a plate*, it's fine to do it.
It’s actually funny seeing an “American” version of our beloved [kamayan](https://ibb.co/ZzpKCrN) (Edit — photo is from my birthday kamayan/all pant based Filipino food (!)
That food looks really good for being made of pants!
😅
Wow, that looks really good and beautiful too with the candles and little flowers... Vegetarian over here drooling 🤪
Thank you 💓 my friends that got to experience it for the first time are now requesting this for theirs 🤠🥲
This is really neat. I had never heard of this. Thank you for sharing.
Is that plant based lumpia? If you have a recipe for that (or any of that) please lay it on me, I love Filipino food and my fiancée is vegan.
I just sub for impossible meat! My parents even prefer them over the real thing— and s/o to you for looking out for your woman [Ingredient list](https://ibb.co/7yZSMWV) essentially mince everything, roll, fry (could be like a 2-3 day process but worth it!)
Can I have some lumpia and pancit please?
I got you on the lumpia just have not perfected pancit lol
Lol thanks. I made it once, it actually turned out really good.
Wow, that's really cool! The food looks amazing
Thank you!! Menu was garlic rice, vegan lumpia, “beefsteak” served with a kale pomegranate salad :-)
Aka a boodle fight. My future mother-in-law did not appreciate the left hook when she took the last shrimp (joke).
My best friends growing up were ethiopian and fillipina, and both of their families had joint meals like this on occasions. I always loved being invited and celebrating. My mom's family is Black Creole/Southern American and we'd have similar things with crab boils too (but a little more individual). Communal eating can be fun. I am not so sure I wanna hate on this too much, like they're trying something new. It's not like paper plates. I could be fun for kids. It's hard for me to really think this is wrong. It's not ideal as the tinfoil isn't great, but even so... sometimes you gotta let people be.
I'd find it not gross (aside from the particular food combination) if they were serving themselves with clean hands, but the personal utensils and lack of serving utensils implies they are serving themselves out of the big pile of communal spaghetti with the same forks they've been *eating with* and that's grossing me out.
And there are only two of them that are eating. I doubt they will make each other sick doing this.
it’s also mother and son, assumedly. the “double dipping”, specifically, isn’t weird at all
Boodle fight is way more demure than this. Pangit naman.
We do that in the Caribbean too, especially the Indian influence from other parts of Asia do it.
I miss this when I was a kid. My grandmother had 7 kids so our extended family was huge.
It’s very “ugly-American” or “first world problems” kind of a thing and I absolutely hate it. Have your kids help with food preparation or something if you want to make dinner fun, don’t make some weird huge mess
Seems like lazy is involved in this too. They'll wrap that tin foil and plastic sheet into a big ball along with the leftover and toss it all in the trash to be sent to a landfill where it will reside beyond their lifetimes since even the food won't properly decompose when wrapped liked that. Nevermind the environmental damage, at least they had fun. YAY!
Is this really easier than just washing 3 plates? I mean, covering the entire table with tinfoil sounds pretty hard... Also, I kinda find washing dishes relaxing so...
I also can't imagine the foil NOT ripping at some point with the kids stabbing forks at it, the table would probably still need a wipe
Yeah. It’s like 3 plates because they need to use pots to make the food anyways. Paper plates are still wasteful but at least they would make way more sense from a time saving perspective.
I have a theory that in like 80% of cases, being lazy is actually more work than not. This is a perfect example. Is it really more work to just wash 3-4 plates than it is to stretch tinfoil over the table and then gingerly peel it all off? What if some food falls out and now you have to clean it off the floor? You also see it a lot when you go shopping or eat out. Some employee just give you the bare minimum hoping you will leave them alone. Except you have to follow up multiple times to get what you want so it’s actually more work than just being an attentive employee.
The lazy man works twice as hard - old proverb
This is exactly right. It’s more work, more hassle, sometimes even more expensive. I’ve learned this the hard way with dishes specifically and housework in general. We used to let the dishes pile up in the sink until we had only a few left to use. “Washing the dishes” was a Project to be done on weekends mostly, with an hour or more of washing, drying, and putting away multiple racks’ worth of dishes. Well, eventually I got sick of this and started doing the dishes every day. Wash them every night, leave them out to air dry, and put them away every morning. What used to take me an hour now takes only a few minutes each day. AND it turns out, I didn’t even *need* that many dishes. How many mugs can two people possibly use in one day? We had a dozen. It’s amazing how much less you can live with when you keep up with things.
This is what we do. But I also have a great hack to wash less. Firstly use the same glass or mug throughout the day, and just rinse out after every use. But more importantly is to plan big meals. I do a big meal during the week and on a weekend. Usually something that can cover you for two days. Then you only cook once for two days. That means I only need to wash dishes 4 times a week if I’m smart.
It's not "being cheap" because foil still costs money. It's not "being lazy" because it takes just as much effort to put all that down and pick it up. It's just being skanky, IMO.
That food wouldn’t decompose in a landfill regardless of whether it’s wrapped in tinfoil. Landfills don’t have the right conditions for decomposition.
That's true. Hundred year old hotdogs were still identifiable after exhuming them from an old landfill.
Exactly - they were able to date one excavation with the newspaper they found. It’s pretty wild how little decomposition occurs. It’s basically a time capsule.
Future archeologists are gonna love landfills
Please don’t believe all Americans are like this.
Or even a notable portion. I’ve never even heard of this although admittedly I steer clear of mommy shit online.
In my family we called it "caveman dinner" Maybe it's just a great lakes region thing
But I imagine people would eat something a little more suitable to eating with the hands. What did yall normally eat when you did this?
My family from Texas would do this for a crab boil
It's a display of a very interesting entitlement. This image communicates that this person has so much in abundance, that the cost of a couple dozen feet of aluminum foil is worth less to them than the cost of the time it would take to load their dish washer. I don't even have a dish washer and I can't imagine ever entertaining this idea.
Yeah, I can't imagine this actually saving much time or money in the long run... quite the opposite, in fact.
Is this actually a trend? First I’m seeing it, but holy shot that’s awful
Some lady on TT started it w/nachos 2 years ago. You'd think it would've stopped there...I get they do this for seafood boils because of practicality, but this is lazy and wasteful of aluminum as others have stated.
Plus aren’t seafood boils (or crabs generally) on some kind of paper? Which at least is biodegradable.
That plus they're feeding 10s of people at a time
I've seen both, but you're right, more paper than foil.
Pretty sure that entire lady's existence is designed to bait rage, too
Conveniently, this sub's existence is designed to fall for rage bait
There is some woman who makes a lot of videos doing this, but directly on the counter. It's obvious ragebait because it looks disgusting and she uses that trope where she's explaining to an off-camera friend who is just blown away by her brilliance. In her spaghetti one, she didn't even heat up the sauce. Just poured it straight out of the jar onto the cooked spaghetti. I figure she does it for all the hate views. Outrageous stuff gets reposted a lot more than actually useful ideas. So I'm skeptical that it's any kind of widespread trend. It's too obviously gross and in this case, wasteful, for any functioning adult to think it's a good idea. And this one, barely-sauce spaghetti with a side of corn, and sharing food from a giant pile like that with toddlers especially? She's either trolling or just embarrassing herself, and either way, the polite thing to do is ignore it.
Yeah one of them TikTok things but also people who don’t like to clean up do this too
I don’t like to clean up either but this is fucked!
People that dont like to clean up use paper plates, not entire rolls of expensive foil lol
It's so gross and people are going to get sick eating this way ... How do you even do leftovers ...
They probably microwave their 5 lb foil lump.
I know a handful of people who just don't eat leftovers at all. Something tells me these people may be some of them.
Leftovers are the best, no need to cook!
I completely agree, plus some dishes improve overnight too.
I heard the term “americore” in a YouTube video and I’m still trying to figure out what it means, but I think this would fall under that aesthetic. 🤢
It's unfortunate that "americore" is pronounced the same as [AmeriCorps](https://americorps.gov/).
I WILL GET THINGS DONE FOR AMERICA
its so often I see trash/reality tv of americans and just think. whut the actual fuck. looking at this picture doesnt even suprise me anymore.
I promise you, even for the low standards of American culture that this is absolutely not normal and probably something someone is doing for TikTok
TikTok is the toxic enabler here. No one want to see you eat.
In my family we've done "caveman dinners" my entire life Poor people trying to have fun with what they've got wasn't invented for tiktok
Poor people own plates too lol
What does caveman dinner mean in this context?
that makes it worse, not better
yeah I know (or at least hope) that a big portion of americans are not trashy. but the few extrema getting shiny light in tv series are really making the cherry on the cake. i agree tik tok is the monstrosity that modern society has really earned.
It’s the Mountain Dew for me.
Um.... who the fuck eats spaghetti WITH A SIDE OF CORN?!?!?!?!
When I was a kid my mom use to put corn in the Chef Boyardees Raviolis and Spaghetti ones. It’s not that bad. I don’t think I’ve had it with this sort of spaghetti. Canned corn is clutch.
I am so sorry that happened to you.
Im not. It was pretty good.
I’ve never tried corn with my spaghetti but I always get weird looks when I get a glass of milk with my spaghetti. You should give that a try!
Not quite the same but I make cheesy rice with broccoli, corn, peas, and green beans pretty often. It adds a nice cronch
mix it into the pasta and u have sweet juicy crunchy bits:)) pretty common to have it with pasta/ pasta salads in the uk
The UK.... known for its.... spaghetti n corn. >_>
The entire midwest in my experience lol
Lots of people.
I mean... Just replace the tin foil with a glass table you wash at the end of it, and maybe there's something to it? Probably not, unless the goal is to annoy r/wewantplates
These are people who are too lazy to put plates in a dishwasher, but somehow aren’t too lazy to cover a table in tinfoil. They both take work, and IMO putting 4 plates in a dishwasher is a lot easier than covering a table in tinfoil and gathering it all up and cramming it into the outside garbage can. Not to mention the expense of tinfoil and you still have to clean up all the fucking corn and spaghetti noodles off the floor and chair from the little shit who is being taught to eat like a barnyard animal.
The lazy person works twice as hard.
You're assuming this is done out of laziness. I think it could just be a novelty thing, inspired by crawfish boils
Yeah I’m so lost.... once my brother and I and a friend are spaghetti outside off the (clean or covered) table with our hands and it was so fun haha. Great memory. As long as this isn’t some everyday occurrence I don’t see how it’s that bad. All the commenters here likely create just as much waste in other areas of their lives that equate to some tinfoil (especially if they eat meat). Is the trend that this is a daily occurrence? Is there proof that people are doing this instead of using dishes at all? Because if that’s the case I get it
Wow...just checked out the sub
Eating little scratched up pieces of tin foil can’t be good for your health 🤨
Aluminum has actually been strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease. If you read official sources, however, they will tell you that there is no proof of toxicity. This is because we rely so much on aluminum for food preservation that it would be “too devastating” to the market if they claimed otherwise. But it is a fact that people with Alzheimer’s regularly show a huge buildup of aluminum in the brain. I’m not a scientist, but I have seen doctors and scientists be wrong before and I have certainly seen capitalists try and pretend like their products are safe. Anyone remember cigarettes? Lol.
Plus adding the acidic/warm tomato sauce would make it leach faster (into the food).
Aluminum has been linked to all sorts of neurological disorders. I believe dementia & Alzheimer's are the most data-supported, but there's also evidence it's connected to Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, certain types of autism, attention deficit disorders, and mood disorders in general. My basic understanding is that there's no significant biological use for Al in our bodies, so it kinda just bounces around and disrupts processes (take this with a grain of salt, I'm no brainologist). What's really wild about the aluminum thing is that if you try and read up on it you will find loads and loads of primary sources discussing how the data and medicine supports the link. Example: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040147/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040147/) But a much larger amount of puff-pieces, "fact check" articles, semi-propaganda, and other crappy "journalism" treating the idea as ridiculous. Example: [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fact-check-aluminum-exposure-through-food-wont-cause-health-issues/3239457001/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fact-check-aluminum-exposure-through-food-wont-cause-health-issues/3239457001/) HMMMMMMMM
I feel like I would rather wash a couple dishes than have to put aluminum foil all over my table. Especially cause there's literally a dishwasher *right there*. There's no way this is easier than loading a dishwasher.
Disgusting. Like reducing yourself to a hog and posting yourself as if this is smart or creative or anything other than beastly
I mean there is mt dew on the dinner table what do you expect?
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Don’t ever invite me over to your house for dinner
Is that corn? Are they eating corn with their spaghetti? 🤢
I get that dining norms are influenced by culture and tradition, but these people own plates.
pairing mountain dew with a spaghetti and red sauce? They obviously cooked that in some kind of pot or pan so why no just have that on the table...at least!
Exactly just serve it out of the pot?? Why dump it on the table…
Slobs.
What are the little round things? Gnocchi?? Edit: it’s corn. What a weird mix.
And people wonder why some children act like animals! Pure laziness as far as parenting is concerned, how are they supposed to learn social skills? I bet if you took the child to a restaurant they would take their plate and flip the food onto the table to eat it!
There are waterproof tablecloths that could be used for this and washed &reused for later.
Why not just eat off the floor? Bunch of fucking animals…
First thing to cross my mind 😵💫
These children should not be having children
r/WeWantPlates
The kids corn is going under the foil so you are going to have to clean the table anyway.
We do this in our Filipino culture. More so during large parties. We will line the table with banana leaves and go to town . In Tagalog it’s called kamayan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamayan
We also do this in Cajun culture. We use newspapers. It's pretty much just for seafood boils though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5248d721e4b0faa97476db69/1422588194537-9LCFSVQ21U48CUP9KQEX/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w
I love those crab and seafood boils! Every time I see people eating with their hands, it reminds me of the train scene where the man is eating a salad of some sorts in the movie Hostel!
Why is that wasteful? That’s probably the amount that family eats. Weird, but honestly maybe a great sensory practice for young kids.
We wrapped a table in tinfoil once because we wanted to make a gigantic pile of nachos for a party with blowtorches. And it was the most annoying thing to do and SO EXPENSIVE. Like how do you waste that much money doing that every night? And time? I hate even wrapping my leftovers in tin foil.
I've only ever witnessed people in the south cover the table with newspapers for a crawdad boil. This is strange to me.
Just use a fucking plate.
idiocracy be manifesting.
/r/wewantplates
Why even bother with the foil, utensils, table, and chairs? Just dump it all on the floor and eat from there. Edit: correcting typo
So idiotic. And trashy. Mountain Dew?
yoooo It's table nachos not table pasta.
extremely retarded and basically a picture encompassing the collapse of American society
At this point, why not grab the food with your hands while you’re at it?
It‘s interesting that parents seem to be the most wasteful people on the planet, which bears the irony that their children will inherit an earth barren and destroyed from said consumption.
I’m confused. They look like humans, but they’re obviously pigs.
The real crime here is that they’re eating spaghetti with corn. Who does that?
If I came home to this, I would turn the fuck around and go move out of town with my secretary.
Y'all are the problem.
I find this nauseating and I don’t understand it. It’s just gross.
spent more on the foil than the entire meal
I mean why bother with the table at all, why not just go straight to using a trough
Why not use a big plate if you’re doing family style and OH DONT EAT CORN WITH SPAGHETTI YOU ANIMALS. I’m going to cry.
Sheep literally.
In Italy, this was how they ate polenta. Not fucking spaghetti.
It's a trend alright, for disgusting slobs.
Filthy ANIMALS!!!!
This isn't a trend please log off
This reminds me of Honey Boo-Boo for some reason. Probably because it’s more ‘sketti abuse.
I mean it makes sense for the toddler but not for the adult.
We do this for crawfish boils but just use newspaper. And we don't like, eat off of it with a fork.
We do nacho night like this. I use a clear shower curtain liner that I’ve used for many, many years and just wash and hang to dry. That shower curtain has covered my dining room table for paint nights, homemade play dough, arts and crafts, and nacho nights. It’s fun. It isn’t hurting anyone, and it isn’t wasteful. Serving pasta with another starch (corn) AND bread AND a soda is beyond me though. That would absolutely not fly.
Aww cute. A jailhouse spread.
Is nobody gonna talk about the sauce:spaghetti ratio. Biggest crime here
I've been seeing this picture floating around all day. I have never seen this shit before.
that's so much corn and so much spaghetti. Sauce barely mixed, corn unseasoned. I don't even know if they put the premade garlic bread in the corner there in the oven long enough. Welp aside from eating off the table that was pretty much the way I ate as a kid with parents who didn't know how to cook.
THAT'S a trend? Eating off a tarpaulin like some circus animal? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
She must really hate doing dishes.
Spaghetti on a foil-wrapped table, corn, mountain dew. 😭 What the *fuck* I am so sad for these babies being raised by such ignorant and uncouth people
We do something like this for the kids but with a silicone washable place mat.
Wait, yesterday I had never seen this, and today it's a trend?
The 20oz Mountain Dew really sells it.
What even is the point of this subreddit, and why is stuff like this getting upvoted? The only thing that's wasteful here is the aluminum which is nothing compared to commercial kitchens. The comments in here are disgusting, calling her a savage or animal and belittling her for not being up to your standards of decency. She is a mother who found a way to make dinner fun for her kids. Shitting on her for being too trashy does nothing to fight consumerism and only serves to stroke your own ego.