Boy, howdy, but young people these days sure do complain a lot. If you ask me, they’ve got things too soft. Back in my day, we not only had to walk 48 miles to school through hip-deep snow, uphill both ways, but we had to carry around granite tablets instead of books, and fight off saber-tooth cats and cave bears while doing so.
Seriously, though. It’s a bit frustrating, and not just for us aging Boomers, to see young people whining about the cost of eating, and then to learn that they are getting much of their food from Uber Eats or DoorDash. That’s why, when I saw this post on X, I couldn’t help but chuckle; this guy gets it.
My sandwich instructions got 9.3M views https://t.co/wouqxXLSS8 pic.twitter.com/4y9I8tAmWX
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) May 23, 2026
In case that image doesn’t render, as they sometimes don’t, here’s what Mr. Berry has to say, in reply to a kid complaining about his $28 lunch.
A little-known hack:
- 2 slices of Aldi bread: $0.17
- 3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86
- 1 slices (sic) of Aldi cheddar: $0.15
- 1 condiment of your choice: $0.02
- 1 apple: $0.53
- 1 hard-boiled egg: $0.14
- 5 carrot sticks: $0.17
- Cold water from the tap: $0.01
Total: $2.05
You can do this.
Now, before you folks who are younger than me (and these days, that’s an ever-increasing proportion of the population) go all, “OK, Boomer,” I’d point out that a lot of young people aren’t on my lawn being an annoyance about this. One of my grandchildren, in fact, is in medical school, after having completed a four-year pre-med program. She brown-bags her lunches. She also watches her nickels and dimes, works part-time, and applies for every little scholarship she finds. She’s in her second year of medical school. Know what the balance of her student loans is?
$0.00.
Back to young people and food.
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Back in my younger years, of course, DoorDash and Uber Eats weren’t a thing. Closest we had was pizza delivery, if you lived in town, which we didn’t. My first few years on my own, many weeks, the only reason I had red meat to eat was because I shot a deer every fall. And we economized. Boy, did we economize.
And we ate heartily, if cheaply.
As for the young person in the post that Joel Berry is responding to, all I can say is, “What the h*** are you eating? Unicorn cutlets? Champagne, caviar, and sugar cookies sprinkled with pixie dust?
Some years back, I was annoyed to read an article in the New Yorker (granted, I’m frequently annoyed by things I read in the New Yorker) about how rough young professional couples had it, financially. The young couple they profiled, two young doctors starting in practice, whined to the interviewer about their student loans, while the photo of them showed them sitting in a new Volvo, each with a Starbucks cup. Were I able to speak to those two nitwits, I would have said, “Hey, you know, if you’re having cash flow problems, maybe try Chevrolet and Folgers instead of Volvo and Starbucks!”
Young whiners. Take the delivery apps off your phone. Go to the grocery store. Make your own sandwiches. Cook your own dinners. If you can’t cook, learn now; there are probably 842,290 YouTube channels that will show you how. Stop whining. You’re not Marie Antoinette. You’re not special. Learn to feed yourself. We did. You can too.
And get off my lawn!
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