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> In article >,
> "<RJ>" > wrote:
>> People really ate like that 40 years ago ?
>> SPAM and a small can of yams to feed four ?
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>> Amazing !
>>
>> <rj>
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> I think they were thinner than folks are today, too. Amazing!
> Forty-five years ago, the "regular" order at McDonald's was a hamburger,
> small fries, and a Coke. Today, that's the kids' meal portion.
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> -Barb, Mother Superior,

I'm convinced it's partly because such food is already chewed up and dumbed
down, leaving eaters less satisfied. The other factor, IMO, is people got
richer and could afford to eat what was portioned out carefully at one time.
I see the same effects to a lesser degree here in Italy.

I'd really like to see more parents spend less time carting kids to
afterschool dates and more starting a braise of cheap meat with a bunch of
veg, spending less on hunks of tender meat and more on varied base
ingredients. We need a generation reared to know and care about what they
consume. We have all these 21st century appliances for making predigested
crap with bottled sauces to make them taste like something. I am definitely
getting old.

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