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I can’t wait for the “GenZ are killing the restaurant business!” headlines.

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To late us millennials already claimed that. Pretty sure we killed restaurants around the same time we killed movie theaters, trade schools, and domestic beer.

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Yeah some places have gotten better and can be a pretty good deal. I’ll do olive garden and they give you a salad and bread sticks with your entree, do carry out and have 2-3 meals for about $20 depending on what you get. Just have to have the right expectations.

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Domestic beer?! If there is one impressive thing millennials have accomplished so far, it’s putting a brewery in every neighborhood of every major city in the western world. Locally brewed beer has been having a really good couple of decades.

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Domestic is typically classified as beer like Budwiser and Miller. You’re describing craft beer which as you said it’s doing great… For IPAs

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12 points

It’s the only legal way to kill ourselves and it tastes better than smoking.

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12 points

As long as you like IPAs

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I don’t know if Millennials get credit for that. The legislation allowing it was signed by Jimmy Carter before these kids were born, and us X’ers did a lot more to get the industry established

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Well we killed chain restaurants… Mainly because nobody can afford to waste our money on microwave crap when we can make better food at home

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9 points

Well yeah, but they’ll move on from millennials at some point! Soon everything will be gen z’s fault!

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30 points

Gen z killed " millennials killed" articles

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If you’d only bought fewer iPhones and avocados you could have bought a 5 bedroom house with 3 garages, a pool and a white picket fence and take a holiday abroad twice a year. You just need more discipline, pull yourself up by the bootstraps*!

*I am now going to research what bootstraps are.

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13 points

Gen Z discovers the joy of home ownership lol

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14 points

Gen Z discovers the joy of revolution

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11 points

unlikely

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10 points

Too soon

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190 points

Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success survive

FTFY

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103 points

Fuck, what about millennials? Those guys been fucked even longer.

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49 points

Edging up to that 4th “once in a lifetime” economic collapse.

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35 points

We are no longer the main protagonists :(

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16 points

Captain Phillips meme,

Millennials: “Look at me. I am the boomer now.”

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I feel like “Boomer” has lost all genuine meaning and really has just become “anyone over 40.” Pretty soon Gen X will be the new Boomers and Gen Z and Gen Alpha will pivot to blindly loathing them and blaming them for climate change and the myriad atrocities of capitalism.

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4 points

That’s because we are starting to fill their spots so they are being careful now.

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21 points

Calm down, there is plenty of fucking for everyone.

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19 points

We’re just hiding in the shadows silently eating avocado toast hoping the next generation will fix it because I think we broke it more.

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This made me laugh… but then it made me sad.

(And as a gen z who has no f-ing clue what to do, it makes me scared. Is there room for one more in the corner?)

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16 points

Our groceries cost as much as ordering in food did 5 years ago.

We barely did as it was too expensive, the future needs some drastic adjustment otherwise some bad shit is going to happen.

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11 points

Bad shit is already happening. How many more wars need to flare up, how many more inches does the sea need to rise, how many more acres of forest need to burn, how many more mass shootings, how many more people need to reach a point where working a full time job isn’t enough to cover rent… I could easily go on. This isn’t a future thing anymore. This is all happening now.

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10 points

I know, right? Millennial, here. I eat out more often than I cook. I should probably be doing what the Zoomers are.

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9 points

I make my own bread now 😭

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Ay that’s pretty cool! Is it hard? Do you do it for fun, or cause it’s cheaper? The crying emoji has be leaning toward the latter, but I thought I’d ask

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It was originally for fun but it turned out to be so easy that I just do it now. It’s insanely cheap if you buy flour in bulk or get it on sale. I started with an easy recipe called something like “40 minute hamburger buns” and kinda went from there. You can also freeze dough which is nice if I want to make bread for the week but still have it be fresh. I just plop it on the counter and toss it in the oven once it’s done defrosting and rising a bit.

If anyone takes anything away from this comment I hope it’s that fresh bread is very easy to make and so worth it. If you don’t have bread pans just make it into a lump and bake up a bread round or smaller lumps for rolls. If you don’t have yeast but you do have flour you can make a starter out of it that’ll replace yeast in recipes. It takes a bit but you can keep it alive forever by just giving it more flour and your bread will eventually develop its own unique flavor.

Bread is such an accessible and forgiving food that anyone can learn to make. I don’t know how it got a reputation for being difficult to make in the first place. Kneading kinda sucks but it’s just a few minutes out of the day and you get bread!

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8 points

Millennials are still struggling. It’s just that this article wasn’t about us.

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4 points

On the bright side I can make pizza from scratch and meal prep virtually guarantees I get the macros I need for the gym.

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Yeah, I’m doing better off than most of the people I knew growing up, but I too have been looking at buying the cheapest of everything.

Great Value brand is getting the majority of my purchases these day. Just looked at my cabinet shelf, 18 GV brand items, 2 others (maruchan, rice a roni).

Also cut back on any drinks that don’t come out of my faucet (excluding coffee grounds and milk for the coffee).

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77 points

Media being out of touch with reality while being bootlickers of the wealthy will never stop being funny.

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They are owned by the wealthy.

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66 points

demand better kitchens and kitchen storage in rentals.

it is a fucking joke out here

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You guys got rentals?

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