On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 9:46:00 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 2:49:51 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:29:09 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 1:50:00 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 4:02:36 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > > > > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 7:43:20 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> > > > > > > In article >,
> > > > > > > dsi1yahoo.com says...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 6:29:19 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> > > > > > > > > YUM!!!
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > John Kuthe....
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I've been drinking this stuff. I think it is hecho en Mexico so no worries there (?!) Damn it's good. It's selling for $2.50. I think I better buy more because like most wonderful things, it won't last for long.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > https://www.amazon.com/KLASS-Mango-I.../dp/B0000GJ7DK
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ingredients: Sugar, Guar Gum, Fumaric Acid, Artificial Flavor, Silicon
> > > > > > > Dioxide, Sodium Citrate, Titanium Dioxide, Dried Mango Pulp, Ascorbic
> > > > > > > Acid, Vitamin C, Sucralose, Caramel Color & Artificial Colors (FD&C
> > > > > > > Yellow 5, FD&C Yellow 5 Lake, FD&C Yellow 6, FD&C Yellow 6 Lake.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now I know why you defend bad food. You can't tell the difference
> > > > > > > between bad and good food
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wonder why it has sand (silicon dioxide) in it...
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm like Dsil. I don't care about ingredients. It it tastes good, I'm
> > > > > in. It's not like I eat or drink it every single day.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am certainly amazed with all the extra ingredients in most commercial
> > > > > foods though. How in the world do they think to add tiny bits of all
> > > > > these weird chemicals to our food?
> > > > >
> > > > > My gramma used to spend a month or two full time home-canning all kinds
> > > > > of food to last the large family for an entire year. She never added or
> > > > > needed to add preservatives or anything else. It was only sterilized
> > > > > jars with cooked whatever food....nothing else ever added and all was
> > > > > fine.
> > > >
> > > > I resist preconceived notions because it always affects ones perceptions. I don't want my perceptions messed with because, in the end, these things are limiting to a person.
> > > >
> > > > It's fairly obvious that the food of the future will be vastly different from the foods of today, just as the foods we enjoy today are not the foods from a 100 years ago.
> > >
> > > Oddly enough, the foods I eat are almost identical to the foods of 100 years
> > > ago (or 2000 years ago). Eggs. Beef. Chicken. Vegetables. Fruit. Flour.
> > > Sure, they've been hybridized and whatnot, but I'm sure you could hand Apicius
> > > an egg laid today and he'd know what it is.
> > >
> > > Cindy Hamilton
> > > and he would
> >
> > My guess is that the fruits most people get today did not exist a hundred years ago. They are purpose-built for the market conditions of today. Eggs might be the same as always. The meats of the past would probably be handled in a similar manner as the meats from third world countries. Apicius would think that a chicken McNugget or a bowl noodle would be great eats. He would appreciate these food for what they are i.e., with no preconceived notions. The reality is that foods in the past could very well kill you.
>
> Recall that I was recounting my eating habits. I don't eat McNuggets
> (but I do have a weakness for deep-fried strips of chicken breast
> meat sauced as for buffalo wings) and although I often eat a bowl of
> noodles, I probably don't eat "bowl noodle". (I wonder when my
> mouth will have healed enough for zaru soba... It's great in hot
> weather.)
>
> There are plenty like me, especially here on RFC.
>
> I'd posit that it's not the foods of the past that could kill, but the
> food-handling practices of the past. A nice, freshly butchered
> aurochs haunch sounds just as good as the venison brought home by
> the thousands every fall.
>
> You have a very gloomy outlook on the future of food. I recall in the
> 60s futurists were saying that by now we'd be taking all of our nutrition
> in pill form, yet we still grub in the dirt. (Reminds me; I really need
> to harvest some hot peppers before the plants decide they've produced
> enough seeds to carry on their genome.)
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I don't consider my views to be doom and gloom. People in the future will consider us wasteful in food consumption and inefficient in production. They may stand in awe of our extravagances but they'll know that the our foods and eating practices should stay firmly rooted in the past. Well, except for Spam, which from a tactical and logistical POV makes a lot of sense.

Food will still serve it's primary function - sustaining life. Modern Americans might consider food to be a symbol of their status and wealth and discriminating tastes but that's just the conditions as it is in this place and time.

A guy from a hundred years or more ago would probably plotz if he could get his hands on a Happy Meal or a Hot Pocket. The reality is that foods in the era before refrigeration, preservatives, and modern processing, were more dangerous - the Jews and Muslims knew this and made certain foods and practices taboo.