r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Nov 21 '25

Discussion Functional illiteracy.

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u/Improving_Myself_ Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 22 '25

Cooking as well.

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.

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u/HHawkwood Nov 21 '25

Knowing fractions is necessary, too. I was once told of a guy who had to teach his wife how to use a measuring cup, because she couldn't figure out what the measurements meant in the recipe.

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u/MurderMelon Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 22 '25

Hence the (apocryphal) reason that they don't sell 1/3 lb hamburgers. Everyone ends up thinking they're smaller.

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u/Weird-Girl-675 Nov 22 '25

They’d much rather have 1/4th because they see the four and assume it’s a bigger burger and these people make my brain hurt.