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All The Feelings • Still Adulting

The Culinary Industrial Complex

17 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the culinary industrial complex?

0.031 - 12.546 Tommy Metz III

Thanks for tuning in to another All the Feelings joint. Want to skip those pesky ads and get early access? Become a member at allthefeelings.fun slash join and discover all the other great perks that come with it. Jazz.

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15.169 - 27.203 Pete Wright

All the Feelings presents Still Adulting. This episode, Food Stuff.

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27.942 - 31.629 Tommy Metz III

Oh, my goodness. Season 11. Pete, I can't believe it.

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32.45 - 45.154 Pete Wright

I can't either. Tom, we're back. We're recording. You'll have to believe it because I'm not going to stop talking at you for the next, oh, I don't know, 45 minutes. I'm very excited to be here for all the feelings. Season 11.

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Chapter 2: Why does Pete dislike grocery store architecture?

45.194 - 47.318 Pete Wright

It's about time.

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47.298 - 70.451 Tommy Metz III

Yes, we had a nice break. If you were feeling friends, you had the break with us. You had some special episodes. If you're with the free feed, welcome back. We love you so much. And with this season, we are continuing last season's topic, which was adulting. The idea of what did we think adulting was going to be, being an adult was going to be? How did we get it wrong? How did we get it right?

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70.531 - 74.457 Tommy Metz III

How are we continually getting it wrong? And how we're actually still four-year-olds. Is that about?

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75.698 - 79.263 Pete Wright

That's exactly how I would have put it. I don't know how you got that word for word.

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Chapter 3: What is mageirocophobia and how does it affect Tommy?

80.285 - 82.968 Pete Wright

But that's exactly how I think about it. Yeah.

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83.229 - 88.476 Tommy Metz III

And yeah. And so we have a whole raft of other topics that plague adult education.

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88.658 - 115.712 Pete Wright

people and as usual we want to hear from you if you have thoughts about episodes if you have suggestions for future episodes questions concerns anything like that pete where do they go all the feelings not fun tom that's a real url and it's not disgusting in any way it's all the feelings dot fun yes dot fun is real that's a real thing you can type into your browser and visit all the feelings dot fun and you'll get to our our show page and we'd love you to be there go hang out there

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115.692 - 116.554 Pete Wright

Yeah. All right.

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116.774 - 131.423 Tommy Metz III

But in the meantime, we are talking about the culinary arts for this episode. Cooking, meals, cooking for one, solo cooking, cooking before you die, all of these things. Right. And I think, do you want to go first, Pete?

131.443 - 138.156 Pete Wright

Yeah, I think it's me. I think this is a me thing. I'm going to go first and then you're going to go after me in order. All right.

Chapter 4: How can you effectively freeze leftovers?

138.828 - 139.769 Unknown

Subset one.

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140.01 - 176.12 Pete Wright

Grocery shopping. Tom, I do like to cook. In fact, you could say I love cooking. Oh, why don't you marry it? But when we... No. When we got married, my wife and I, Kira. Oh, that's why. We had... You're already taken. Asked and answered. When we got married, there was sort of a deal that we made. And of course, when we were courting... I was doing everything I could to make a good impression.

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176.16 - 178.303 Pete Wright

And so I, you know, do you want to go to the grocery store?

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Chapter 5: What are the theological implications of coriander?

178.343 - 203.586 Pete Wright

Yes, let's do couples grocery storing. And we go to the grocery store and secretly I really didn't care for it. I don't care for grocery stores. We'll talk more about that in a minute. Oh, OK. And but the tradeoff was she notoriously hates laundry. And so for 26 years, we've had a division of labor that includes I do the laundry. She does the grocery shopping.

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204.247 - 232.384 Pete Wright

And in that time, I think my disdain for the grocery store experience has calcified. It's even worse. I don't care for grocery stores. And I think it's because, and I pose this as a question to you, when you cook and you have to go to the grocery store, do you see ingredients for what you're cooking? Or do you see just outcomes?

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232.684 - 241.212 Pete Wright

Like in your head, do you have like, I'm going to make this, what's going to be on my plate is what I see the ingredients for here. Or do you just see products?

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Chapter 6: How does the death of the Choco Taco relate to mortality?

243.773 - 254.167 Tommy Metz III

I'm sorry to be a roadblock for the very first question on season 11, but do I see products or do I see ingredient? I don't know if I understand the difference.

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254.688 - 255.969 Pete Wright

Well, here's the thing.

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256.49 - 257.031 Tommy Metz III

Please.

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257.271 - 291.25 Pete Wright

If I have a meal that I'm cooking for, right, that I am cooking toward, then I can see a list of ingredients and I can go to the store and eventually find those ingredients. But if I don't have a meal, like if I just need to go do weekly shopping, I just see a list of unrelated labels everywhere. And I don't know what any of those products are best at. Right.

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291.691 - 305.329 Pete Wright

Like it's not that I don't like vegetables per se. I'll eat a good vegetable. It's just that none of the most of the vegetables in the vegetable area don't have job descriptions.

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Right.

305.89 - 314.84 Pete Wright

I don't know what the hell is like. Like, what do I do with rutabaga and kohlrabi and bok choy? And like, they're not they're not food.

Chapter 7: What are the challenges of cooking for one?

314.9 - 337.468 Pete Wright

They're like Instagram content. Right. Like, I don't know what to do with them. So I know things like apples, apples and bananas. They've got great PR. I know exactly what to do with those. Sure. I can just eat them. But once you hit that robust produce wall, it's just crazy. Culinary improv. And if I don't know what I'm going to eat for the week, I can't plan for the week.

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337.548 - 351.169 Pete Wright

And I'm terrible at thinking about what I'm going to eat for like next meal plus one. Like it's almost lunchtime as we record this. And I have a pretty good idea what I'm going to eat for lunch. No idea what dinner is going to bring.

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Chapter 8: How can we navigate the emotional aspects of cooking and meal planning?

351.993 - 372.621 Tommy Metz III

So how can I plan for it? Now I understand your question and I'm definitely side in one part, which is I go in with a plan. Okay. I'm never browsing. I'm never browsing in the shopping. Sometimes I'll pick something up that seems like fun, but no, I'm going in with an exact plan of ingredients of what I need for what I get for that thing.

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372.781 - 393.446 Tommy Metz III

And I'm actually talking about cooking for one, cooking for just myself. So I'll be talking about my experience with that. But yeah, no, I don't. So I don't really have that. freeze up thing of, wait, I'm just looking at an enormous store filled with options and I don't know what to pick because I've already chosen. Probably based on some TikTok I saw, honestly.

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394.728 - 419.285 Pete Wright

Well, I think that's really important. And I bring up my wife and my roles because she has a very different take on it. She likes to plan too, but she also has a very intimate relationship with ingredients. Like she knows what these ingredients are best at. So she can improvise in the kitchen in a way that I cannot. She could just say, here's a recipe. This is the thing.

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419.826 - 448.413 Pete Wright

Here's a recipe with 10 ingredients and we maybe have six of them and she'll make it anyway because six is that line. She'll take four core ingredients and That we don't have and figure out how to make it anyway. And that, my eyes are like star studded when I see that. I am so impressed by that. And it further highlights how far I am from it and why I get paralyzed in the grocery store.

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449.434 - 472.601 Tommy Metz III

I love this. And I was actually going to talk, I'm going to bring part of what I was going to talk about up here to talk about it with you. Because, yeah, what she's doing is she's playing jazz. it's not the ingredients. It's grocery jazz. Whereas I at best am a sous chef. I need everything spelled out. Yeah. Like everything I'm following exact ingredients. I have huge recipe anxiety.

473.041 - 492.189 Tommy Metz III

And so I look, I look at it and I look at it again and I look at it again because I can't, I'm in awe of people that can just like Like, what is it? Oh, Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation when he just opens the fridge. And he's like, why go out? You got all this stuff. And he has like an onion and a half of a jar of mayonnaise. And he makes this beautiful dinner.

492.609 - 514.157 Tommy Metz III

Like being able to just throw things together. I have no instinct for. And the reason I have recipe anxiety is because I look at it. I don't have the common sense or at least the courage, not the confidence to. To not know, well, obviously it's not three tablespoons. It's three teaspoons. Yeah. Like I just, because I don't know what things are supposed to taste like.

514.257 - 536.494 Tommy Metz III

I know what they taste like at the very end. And I have straight up ruined recipes because I mistook something. And I also, my last, and I don't mean to take over your segment, of course, but I also can't fix things because I don't have a general knowledge for it. So if like a sauce over reduces and it's a salty mess, it's going in the sink and I'm ordering it. That's it.

537.095 - 554.239 Tommy Metz III

Cause I don't know how to do anything. Yeah. So I, I love that she can do that. And I've had meals at your place. She whipped together a beautiful poke bowl. It was actually the first poke bowl I've ever had in my life. And it was remarkable. So, yeah, I can't do any of that. So I'm very impressed.

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