"Giusi" > wrote in message
> 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.

Meat used to be an extravagance, veggies were cheap as they were home grown.
Prepared foods were almost non-existant but mom stayed home and did the
work.


>
> 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.

I could go on for a long time about this. Between working mothers and
children's activities, food is just something crammed in between with little
regard to dietary needs. Many people won't even make a cup of coffee in the
morning and opt to spend $2 at a drive up window and complain they are broke
all the time.
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Ed
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