“Chopping tomatoes is elitist.” To anyone not buried in their phones, this statement seems absurd. However for Twitter users replying to Jaya Rajamani’s (timeforjaya on Twitter) Tweet playfully making fun of adults who don’t know how to cook, this seems like a perfectly logical train of thought. The original lighthearted Tweet reading “you ever try to cook with friends who swear up and down they don’t know how to cook from scratch? and then you realize they don’t know how to chop a tomato” was received with unnecessary hostility. I watched incredulously from my phone as Rajamani was attacked by Twitter users claiming that neurodivergence often prevents people from following directions in recipes, that people with neglectful parents have never learned to cook from scratch and that cooking from scratch is exclusively reserved for privileged, wealthy people. I originally dismissed this dumpster fire of a Twitter thread as a one-off act of stupidity. However, this is just one example of...