Counterintuitive don’t ya think?!?

[@user-db2uk8iq9r]

75 "gender choices", no problem. 12 sandwich choices...panic attack 😆😆😆

[@Ticona2]

LMAO!

[@hippymoustacherides]

Get over it.

[@jefflanduyt6750]

TRUTH!

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

@@hippymoustacherides Back at ya.

[@somniferousSirenSocial]

@@Ticona2 "You can be anything!" "Menu is limited." 🤣

[@jefflanduyt6750]

If they have "menu anxiety" what will they do when they have to go ... grocery shopping and turn into the dreaded cereal isle?! They'll be puddles of goo on the floor from them having meltdowns. Don't step in it, you'll hurt their feels too!

[@mattbrown5511]

Am I supposed to care about their feelings? I didn't get a memo or e-mail, or even smoke signals.

[@alricaneshama]

@@mattbrown5511 Like, for real. As if I give a damn what a bunch of pansy crybabies that are throwing tantrums over literal NONSENSE!

[@SidewalkCitizenLA]

Gen X here, I have one daughter, and when I was raising her, I was looked down on by my peers for doing so in "the old ways." My girl was a free-range child and SO independent now! 😊

[@alricaneshama]

If I had kids. I would have raised them the same way I was raised. My parents didn't raise a brainless entitled leech.

[@TheLadyWoreBlack73]

Dont look at me! My kid got swats, grounded, had chores, allowance, responsibilities, learned to cook, clean and do laundry all before she was 12. By highschool, the only concerns I had was if she was home on time or not. Because I knew she was responsible enough to have everything else handled. Yes, I was there if needed. But I was rarely needed. Which is what you want for your child. So they can go out into the world, make good choices and be safe.

[@bigal3055]

Imagine going hungry because there was too much food to choose from. When we were thrown out of the house in the morning and sent into the wild, our predicament wasn't what to choose from on the menu. It was choosing which berries to pick from the hedgerows that wouldn't kill you. Some of us chose poorly.

[@sebnembozkaya9520]

I was sent out with an Oscar Mayer cold hot dog or rolled up bologna and told have fun, and stay away from strangers, thats it.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

You got food to take with you??? I got get out and don't break anything because the hospital is expressive

[@chrisbankhead9669]

Honeysuckle

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@chrisbankhead9669 ahh yes honeysuckle the snack on the go. Sweet grass wild fruit Yay for city "green belts"

[@santashahadley5916]

I just was telling my child that today and sideways 😂😂😂😂

[@kathrynwhitby9799]

Gen Boom & X parents & schools always offered a choice of meals - - - take it or leave it! 😆

[@dawnbrady684]

These people are crazy. They insist they get take out but won't take a trip to the freezer section of the gorcery store. That takes less time too. Maybe im asking too much.

[@alricaneshama]

You are. You're asking for a functional brain with living brain cells.

[@cindy5800]

Don't look at this genxer, my kid could cook, do dishes and laundry by the time she was 10. I made sure she also knew how to make butter, candles, rock candy and homemade bread.

[@shawnadams1460]

Right!!! We did the same, but my father might have gone a bit overboard as she also learnt to steal his coffee, to this day at 25 she is a HUGE coffee junkie...lol.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Does she know how to shoot? Make fire? Skin and Pluck?

[@cindy5800]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 actually yes we made sure she can shoot and hunt and forage. She also knows what's edible in the woods and what to avoid, she's eaten bear, moose, deer and boar. We never had chance to hunt elk. And now that she's grown up she has learned tanning methods ..that surpassed me so I'm really proud mama.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

@@cindy5800 👍Damn shame I didn't meet you 40 years ago!

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Lucky kid.

[@thomassilvester2278]

I’m a boomer and I don’t know what to call my son who’s 26 but we taught all my kids to cook clean and sew the basic skills and the rest is up to them, good luck the the rest of you who can’t even decide what to eat

[@marywarren8357]

One of my sons turns 26 this August. They’re Gen Zers.

[@brittlemons1]

I was raised by my grandparents, I’m 29 and they are in their 70s. They taught me how to survive too! Moved out on my own at 17!

[@mattschiavone3383]

You’re a boomer with a 26 year old? What were you thinking?

[@Nitehawke]

I taught my own kids so well that I now have grandkids ranging in age from 5 -15 and all are either learning to cook or already know enough of the basics to at least keep from starving to death (they also know the basics of growing their own food).

[@EvanEdwards]

Whatever the opposite of menu anxiety is, I have it. I love huge menus and just taking my time going through it, narrowing down choices. It drove my wife nuts until she realized that it was part of why I liked going out to eat. She liked planning in advance so she could anticipate things and look forward to them. Find your partner's tiny joys and help them indulge in them, and communicate and let them help you indulge in yours.

[@SleepingNeutron]

Analysis paralysis due to a post-COVID menu? 😂 Someone find the tome that was a Cheesecake Factory menu in the 90s if they really want to have issues.

[@clsanchez77]

Even their menu today is a sensation overload for the weak 😂

[@juliaanderson447]

OMG! Seriously 😂 it's just a menu

[@carlausoff6407]

Perhaps our parents were correct? Feral children survive, while those tended and care for create idiocracy?

[@alricaneshama]

They were right. The boomers were RIGHT in how they raised Gen X. Look at the world now? A bunch of useless entitled crybabies?

[@TGG239]

wow they are clueless

[@williamhammond9090]

More like they are just plain stupid.

[@clsanchez77]

I recommend the children’s menu…choices are preselected for you to the least offensive options.

[@bellehunt4206]

Not me dude, my offspring became a professional chef!

[@rugershooter5268]

Oh come on now, I won't even go to Wendy's with all them choices, and they won't let me stand back and read them in piece

[@stevedyoutube]

Baby Boomers & Gen X had to live through The Cheesecake Factory menu. There was no internet to see it beforehand. We made it through that just fine, even though I've seen novels with fewer pages.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@stevedyoutube shortest book I ever read that was still classified as a novel and not a short story was 150 pages

[@Metalkatt]

Not me; I chose not to have kids precisely so I would not be responsible for ruining them.

[@TheVampyrical]

I've no kids either, every time I thought about kids I'd look in the mirror and the realisation kicked in that one of me is bad enough, to create a new and worst version of me would just be too cruel to society as a whole. LMAO.

[@Roguefem76]

This is the way. Not my fault, I didn't have the little _charmers_ and I'm so very glad I didn't.

[@robertkibler1354]

Learning without a mother we defied the laws of physics in my oven.

[@santashahadley5916]

They are simply indecisive little brats and my parents are the for baby brother and baby sister. I agree with you wholeheartedly and thats same thing of driving them every where too. Gets yours DAMN LICENSE child.

[@sebulller]

I Can bake clean do the laundry. yeah and i am from 1985. We where taught that. I taught my cousins kids to do the same! I am a proud uncle and they are happy. so I do not mind this being taught. The kids come to me for advice on cooking and baking. So I give them that. But i also let them do it.

[@oldhillbillybuckkowalski]

Whenever I have gone out to eat I almost always know exactly what I want before I even leave the house. I'm also the type of person who does not have problems making decisions in general. And once I make a decision I stick with it until it's proven correct or becomes untenable.

[@CGo-sd3gl]

😂 Our Gen Z must be a unicorn then!

[@lamiglass1]

Hey my 2 kids have been self sufficient since they were around and now are in their early twenties. They also both hunt and fish and one grows all kinds of veggies and herbs

[@simonnoble2345]

Theyvare talking about the Doordash menu, they aint never gonna cook

[@somniferousSirenSocial]

I get the menu paralysis, for one reason. 'Have you figured out what you would like to order?' is a big choice for the youngins.

[@alricaneshama]

Absolutely not. That's just a pathetic excuse. Everyone ordering out has to go through that. It ain't rocket science.

[@somniferousSirenSocial]

@@alricaneshama Alright; remember next time you sit down with a menu? See how it goes. Looking forward to hearing about it.

[@trishayamada807]

Gen X parent here saying it’s not my kids! I had my kids in my 40s and my oldest of 3 is 13. They have been raised with take it or leave it or go make yourself something. I’m not a short order cook. That said, I don’t make things I don’t like, which shocking, they don’t like, so it’s usually ok. But they know if they don’t want what I made they can make a pb&j or cereal.

[@Followerof]

Yes . As a happy parent of gene x 2.0 children. They will get raised in the hold ways.

[@markinator8826]

I did dishes when o was barely tall enought to reach the sink, had to grocery shop by 12 and jad my first job at 13 at the corner carry out...then i was able to buy what i wanted to eat but had to cook it myself...so I joined the Army at 17 so I wouldn't have to cook...Big mistake...Edwards we need a volunteer for KP....AHHHHH!!!

[@robertnorton3047]

That’s right up there with the dumbest things I’ve heard.

[@WatcherNine]

It'll work, in more ways than you're saying, it will work.

[@filly3594]

Oh, for heaven's sake! Now the Gen-Z's are having anxiety over the choices on a MENU??? How are they EVER going to survive if they freak out over something so STUPID?

[@NullaNulla]

I kinda miss when maccas had just 7 odd burgers, chips, nuggets and drinks and if you wanted anything else go elsewhere.

[@karenfryerenjoylifeaustralia]

There is hope for humanity after all

[@MD2389]

Honestly, I think this might be a byproduct of the people that take 20 minutes to pick a menu item, because it's like they've never been to a McDonald's before in their life!

[@thePrussian]

Ha-ha! (Nelson laugh)

[@cee8mee]

My kids learned the basics of cooking and cleaning. They can fend for themselves, then clean up and do laundry. They're millennials, so I was never able to get them to _want_ to do the cleaning part, but they sure do know how.

[@mattbrown5511]

I don't WANT to clean, do laundry, etc. I just know it is my responsibility to get it done.

[@Jrogers6293]

1. It's mainly white Gen zs 2. First wave (96 to 01 and second wave (02 to 07) gen Zs have boomer parents as well and like many of the issues with us millennials and our Gen X siblings and parents they are also responsible for this 3. The first wave, Gen Zs'(96 to 01) solution, is to date and marry Finale wave millennials (91 to 95) to compensate for their handicaps.

[@user-zt4nf6zk4u]

This whole collapse of civilization thing ain't happening fast enough

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Totally understand, I want all of the things and I have to pick 1. But... But everything is so delicious

[@mattbrown5511]

I'll throw you a year's worth of MREs. It will cure you of food anxiety of any kind.

[@TheDadFaxs]

Not me if my kid didn't like what was on the plate in front of him and he didn't eat it he went to bed hungry. And when he woke up in the morning. I'd have that same dinner hot and ready for his breakfast . It took two days to break him. Now he eats anything. If he doesn't like it he knows he's not getting any thing else.

[@tripwire6306]

This is why they can't handle a stick-shift, too many pedals, too many gears. God help us.

[@goblinqueen4991]

My Gen Z grandson can cook (because I taught him) and does not have "menu anxiety" (which sounds ridiculous and self-inflicted).

[@MF_Reinhold]

I'm pretty sure all 7 of my children will be just fine 😉

[@bigpoppajersh]

Meanwhile my 10 year old is cooking eggs, grilled cheese and pizzas

[@Roguefem76]

Gen Z really needs to stop making EVERYTHING into some kind of disorder or trauma. I mean I'm glad mental health is getting so much more focus and self-care becoming accepted, but ffs, a moment of nervousness when you're trying to choose something off the menu isn't a traumatic experience. It's just a menu. They need to just learn how to say "I need a few more minutes, please" and _get over it._ Sheesh

[@lhuff9508]

Not me. All my kids know how to and clean and all 5 started working at 14.

[@handimanjay6642]

Kids menu nuggies and frys. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@chernobyl169]

Bruh I tried to teach my kid how to cook and he was all "no, dad you're doing it wrong" and proceeded to school the fuck out of me

[@shawnr6117]

Ah gen-z , making the millenials seem slightly less annoying 🤣🤣

[@hampusbrokmann8249]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@andrewunderwood4570]

Is it me or are the zoomers collecting different anxieties like we collected garnage pail kids, and football or baseball cards?

[@SaltyOldSailor70]

How many Gen Xers said, "Im not raising my kids, like my parents raised me?" Hes not wrong you know?

[@NehnBellanaris]

I know this going to be completely off topic, but since my dad is nagging me right now, I'm just going to say it, I think my parents got their roles reversed. I really do.

[@josephsanders9181]

if you were given three choices beef, pork or chicken what is your choice

[@sebnembozkaya9520]

Oh yes, it is not me, 9 sons, from a gen x mom of 51. Hell no did I raise my kids like this, maybe cause they're boys, I have no girls, thankfully, and mine are raised right. As a matter of fact, my crew of children can perform under pressure, sometimes better than not, so pucker up all you buttercups, kiss your ass goodbye...

[@dianemuhs1105]

Um, as an older Gen-X, I am totally out of the repopulating game. This one is on you younger members.

[@alricaneshama]

Late GenXer here (1978) Not me, I didn't have any spawn and IF I had, they would have been raised the same way I was.

[@OriginalMomo]

Another waste of oxygen…. Who else wants off this planet? I’m driving…..

[@2xtreem4u]

I have no kids what i know ☕

[@hippymoustacherides]

Go to a better restaurant for less choices and generally better quality.

[@willardbuchanan9122]

Mr dad bot are you giving away cell phones on Facebook according to Facebook someone's either hacked your account again offering iPhones

[@elipercival7354]

I always ask the waiter/waitress what they like because it's gonna be the best thing on the menu for the most part and I do not care about the price!!!!

[@efraim3364]

stop fetishizing anxiety

[@sarastewart1796]

Look up studies on the paradox of choice. I heard about it when i was studying mental health 20 years ago (im an xennial). I can gi through this when trying to determine my 10 year plan, but unmanaged anxiety can make choosing from a menu difficult. Our minds ara fascinating, not always logical, and definitely complex.

[@smokebreak6904]

"ah, they are glitching again......... grab the head bonker so we can get them straightened out again" :)

[@Ms.HoneyBee]

😂😂😂😂😂😂