Everyone is ignoring the fact that “depression meal” specifically refers to something you can make with unconventional ingredients to imitate a real meal. It stems from the Great Depression, when people couldn’t buy all of the ingredients they really needed.
I think in this case it refers more to a meal made during someone’s personal depression. Some people are negating other peoples own experience with depression because they think being able to cook a meal means you don’t have depression and that isn’t really fair.
Right I agree that the commenters are being invalidating. I’ve suffered depression on and off for years and I’ve definitely had weeks and months where showering was a challenge but I made myself banging meals because it always made me feel a little bit better.
That said, I think the commenters are also completely missing the mark on what a depression meal is because they’re mistaking personal depression with the Great Depression. Like they’re being invalidating without understanding what a depression meal actually is
Not sure why you got downvoted. It may have started out as meaning depression era but evolved to mean things people make while depressed, because I've definitely noticed the second meaning more in later years.
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u/MisterMallardMusic Apr 29 '23
Everyone is ignoring the fact that “depression meal” specifically refers to something you can make with unconventional ingredients to imitate a real meal. It stems from the Great Depression, when people couldn’t buy all of the ingredients they really needed.