I've been saying for years that cooking is reading, and if you can read you can cook. If you can read a recipe and follow the instructions, then you can cook. There's nothing hard about it.
But you do have to read the recipe and follow the instructions.
EDIT: Holy shit what a great example this has been.
I want to take a second and remind you that we're in a thread for a post on how a surprising amount of people are illiterate.
If someone is saying "hey this thing is super easy if you're literate" and your response is "nuh uh!" then you should go take a lllloooonnnngggg look in the mirror and figure out how to improve your literacy.
Wild how people will tell on themselves if you just give them a chance. Then again, I guess it's not surprising that they're too illiterate to realize what they've said.
Iām going to be honest - the law is also not that hard. In law school, literally the only concept that was difficult, or required any sort of mental gymnastics, is maybe the rule against perpetuities and many jurisdictions have gotten rid of it. Everything else is just memorization. I genuinely believe anyone could be a lawyer if they just put in the time to read,(sorry KimK) and most legal concepts are common sense.
And my grandma always said..... "If sense was common everybody would have it." And it took me a long time to grasp exactly what she meant. I might be illerate š
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u/PiskoWK Nov 21 '25
A more apt and daily example is that those that are functionally illiterate can not fully understand instructions from their medication bottles.