# Caren needs you to stop stealing food from her children's mouths. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044 "2020-05-03T00:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044/61 "2020-05-04T16:06:52Z")
I made banana nut bread for the first time in my life last week. I had a bunch of bananas that were going ripe (I bought them for my nieces and it turned out they didn’t need them), so I decided to make some bread for myself and for them and their father. I hardly ever bake, so I had to–gasp!!–buy some flour. This urge to bake wouldn’t likely have hit me if it weren’t for the rona, since the only reason I’ve been shopping for my nieces is because their mother has been deployed to fight the rona. (That bread I made was yummy, if I should say so myself. I had no idea that mayonnaise could be such a magical ingredient!) To Caren: lots of folks are making sacrifices right now. Some people are sacrificing the time they’d normally spend raising their children on helping the sick (like my sister). Others has been sacrificing their livelihoods to keep themselves and their workers safe. Some people have been sacrificing their leisurely weekends to help out family. You know, doing stuff like baking cookies and bread to make up for some of the other sources of pleasure that aren’t available right now. So you’re going to have to write better than that if you want people to feel sorry for you that you can’t buy all the organic flour you want. The well of sympathy we have just isn’t enough to accommodate all the swirling butthurt out there. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044/62 "2020-05-05T00:13:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Hijack: was it really? I used to sell produce to Park Slope, also years ago, by way of a growers’ cooperative. They were one of our best customers. Yeah, it’s pretty fucking annoying. Actually, that’s not true. There’s nothing all that annoying about the store itself. But the people who shop/are members there? A surprising percentage of them (not all, of course, but more than you’d think) are annoying. Caren would fit right in. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044/63 "2020-05-05T04:04:32Z")
Now that we’re in the Pit, fuck you Caren. You’re lucky you live in a time, place and social station where you have the choice to do whatever you like. You think you’re too good to feed your precious little princes/princesses store bought bread like the plebeians. You’re not. The fact that you’re not worrying about _how_ you’re going to get _anything_ to feed the precious heirs is something to be glad of in Virus Time. Hell, if none of you are in the hospital it’s something to be glad of. Shut your mouth and be content with what you’ve got. It’s a hell of lot more than most people have. > [@Tamerlane](#): > > I was once in a fairly fancy upper-end supermarket some years back where I was treated to someone having a complete meltdown at the meat counter because they were out of organic, free-range chicken. The regular chicken was clearly unacceptable and the poor counter-worker was getting his ass chewed because of the failure of the supply chain. It was a truly surreal, head-shaking moment. I hope they had a manager like mine. She takes zero bullshit from customers and it’s so satisfying to see. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044/64 "2020-05-05T04:26:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Quoth Mrs. C](https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/caren-white-stop-baking-bread/) What flabbergasts me is that this quote is very similar to what I would have told **Caren**. “_I expected to hear from a lot of entitled privileged people_” is irony of the highest order. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caren-needs-you-to-stop-stealing-food-from-her-childrens-mouths/853044.md?page=3)