Bad Cooks & Passive Aggressive

Are you a bad cook? Dangerous Dave talks about a Google search of the biggest cities with the worst cooks. Plus, what passive aggressive phrases do we need to stop using? We look at a list of ones we could eliminate.

Episode Transcript

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This, he's deeper in the denwith dangerous day. Are you a good
cooker bad cook top cities You'll fitright in. Somebody looked at Google searches
in America's top fifty biggest cities tosee which ones had the worst cooks.
The results based on people googling verybasic things like how to pre eat an
oven or what is a whisk.According to the results, ten cities with

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the most clueless cooks include Cleveland,Pittsburgh, Seattle, Madison, Wisconsin,
Lubbock, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and
Nashville. New Orleans clocked in thelowest number of bad cooks. Lincoln,
Nebraska second, followed by Sacramento,San Francisco, and Philadelphia. They also
took a poll of two thousand peopletask what's preventing you from being a good

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cook top? Answers are not enoughtime or I'm too lazy. Some other
stats about America's cooking skills include twentyeight percent of embarrassed by their own cooking,
thirty three percent have been told theymade something that wasn't good, seventy
eight percent agreed the most intimidating mealis dinner. Then breakfast and lunch are
easier. Top reasons we don't cookmore no time, clean up as a

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hassle, recipes are complicated, lackof experience. Nineteen percent said fear of
failure seventy five percent if had amajor cooking fail seventy four percent burning something,
seventy two percent cutting themselves, fiftyfour percent severely under cooking a dish,
fifty one percent forgetting a key ingredient, nineteen percent breaking a dish or
pan, ten percent causing a fire, and ten percent have used spoiled food

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by mistake. And the last daton this one and six chance your husband
or your wife secretly hates cooking.Thirty one percent of people said their spouse
is not a good cook, andover half of people have kept their opinion
to themselves. Probably a good ideathere. Deeper in the two, are
you a passive aggressive person and don'teven know it? Somebody asked psychology experts

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for phrases. If people don't realizeare passive aggressive, should we stop using
them? They said yes, theyinclude good for you, it's passive aggressive.
If there's a secret resentment behind it, I'm sorry you feel that way.
People use it as a non apology, like I'm not sorry for what
I did, but I'm still tryingto sound like I am. It's fine,
especially when you're not fine. It'savoiding the confrontation. You should tell

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people how you feel other passive aggressivephrases. We should stop using whatever,
like you're throwing in the towel,I really don't care what movie you want
to watch or whatever. Either geton board for real or stick to your
guns. If you say so,it's dimissive and implies that you really don't
believe what they're saying. It's alsoa way of shutting down the conversation and

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you're just too sensitive. It discountstheir feelings and shifts blame onto them.
If you don't feel like apologizing ordon't feel bad, I'd tell you more,
but you know, sorry you feelthat way, it's fine to me
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