I’ve looked this up before actually since I’ve seen alcoholics have some sort of disease which kills them from lacking a vitamin.
We want to look down on others too much and prefer them to die. Government did not want to promote excessive drinking by adding the vitamin to booze to prevent the deaths so people knew drinking was bad.
Fortifying alcohol with B1 / Thiamine would literally prevent brain disease.
I also hate cooking, but I’m broke and vegetarian.
1lbs of dried chick peas goes in my housemates pressure cooker on Sunday, and 12 servings of chickpeas gets scooped into ziplock bags and thrown in the fridge and freezer for the rest of the week.
On top of rice with a bag of microwave steam veg, stirred into a premade curry, blended and served on top of pasta like a weird hummus alfredo, thrown into a Quesadilla (side note, what’s a Quesadilla without cheese called?), smashed on top of toast and covered in whatever condiment I have. Or more realistically, I toss some salt in the zip lock bag and just eat out of the bag with a spoon while staring into the fridge wondering what I’m going to make for dinner, before grabbing a slightly limp carrot and an almost empty jar of peanut butter I left out instead of throwing away and telling myself “this is a balanced choice, protein, carbs, fats, a vegetable…”
Rice gets a similar treatment to the chickpeas, a big batch in the rice cooker on Sunday, divvied up and frozen for quick and cheap rice during the week without having to cook it from scratch after work. We don’t have “minute rice” or parboiled rice in my country, and the “microwave pouch” rice doesn’t fit in my budget.
A former roommate got me “What the Fuck Should I Make for Dinner?!” as a gift a few years back. Pretty funny book, written in the style that reminds me of Bill Burr a little bit.
“We’re making fucking roasted chicken, alright? So buy the damn chicken, along with these herbs you probably don’t fucking have, and we’ll get this shit rolling.”
No - it comes with a seasoning packet, a pouch of crispy fried onions, a chili paste packet, oil (sesame?) packet, and some kind of sauce packet that looks like soy sauce but doesn’t taste like it… /shrug.
For best results, save the fried onion until JUST before you eat it, and sprinkle it on top - stays crispy that way.
Also if you put an egg in the water as soon as you put the pot on heat, it’ll be perfectly soft-boiled when the noodles are ready.
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