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    the trend, according to the New York Times, originated in South Korea this spring, when Park Seohyun, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student in Seoul, created a fake food-delivery site called “Food Never Arrives.” (It’s now an app).

    Originally intended as a joke, she says, it lets you not only order nonexistent food, but provides you an estimate of the money and calories you saved by skipping on the real thing

    oh good, wonderful

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      This is how I felt about the whole clicker genre of games. Like all the resource management and no payoff.

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        I would say there are disproportionately more people with compulsive eating habits being enabled by delivery apps than people who are starving themselves.

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    Two developers in India inspired by Park’s site, Purvansh Parmar and Anshul Sharma, created “Food Never Comes,” which simulates food deliveries but provides real recipes for the food you didn’t actually order. Parmar and Sharma told the newspaper that their site had more than 2.7 million views since launching in June.

    That actually has value.

    Stop being a lazy bastard: here’s how to make the delicious Indian food yourself