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Cooking pasta in a crowded hostel kitchen is purely awful

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Sharing a massive communal fridge with twenty random travelers means your clearly labeled cheese will inevitably be stolen by an Australian gap-year student. Trying to make a decent meal among unwashed pans and blunt knives requires intense patience and lowered standards. It is a chaotic culinary experience that truly tests the limits of human endurance.

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