I suspect that people are cholling about the preparation of dinner, in the idea of which "to prepare food" is to pour peelings or pasta into boiling water - with those who implicitly assume that there will be five shifts of dishes for lunch and a homemade cake with dust from the heat for dessert.
Approximately the same holiwar was about female figures, where on the hundredth page it turns out that for one athlete "thick" is "three extra kilos on the ballet norm", and for another "abandoned clinical obesity with the threat of a heart attack" - they will not agree, having in mind each of their own.