Super Bowl Sunday means it’s slow cooker season

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Slow cookers are bulky, unattractive in their signature oval way and require a lot of thinking ahead to use. They are the antithesis of quick and easy fast food.

So why am I seeing so many of them recently at house parties?

I’m a middle-of-the-road millennial with aging millennial friends. Birthday parties and holiday gatherings now come with babies, sober friends and the paternal instinct to grow a mustache. I don’t know how many of us can handle the slog of a night on the town or the shock of a loud “SURPRISE!” coming from the shadows. That might make our hearts palpitate.