On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 5:11:54 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-08-04 4:02 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 3:54:11 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2016-08-04 2:49 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:29:09 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Your guess is pretty close. There are a lot of things that you didn't
> >> get unless they were produced nearby, especially the more perishable
> >> fruits. It took too long to transport them and they did not have
> >> refrigeration. When I was a kid in the 50s we had mostly locally grown
> >> fruits, and only when they were in season. Oranges were a rare treat.
> >> Kiwis, mangoes and their ilk.... never heard of them.
> >
> > Of course, but somebody, somewhere was eating mangoes. It's not
> > all about U.S. and Canadian culture.
>
> True, but there were lots of things we eat that they weren't eating either.

This sub-thread started out with the notion that our future food would
be manufactured rather than grown, and that in 100 years what people
eat would be as different from today's food as today's food is from the
food of 100 years ago. My contention is that our diets are not all that
different from 100 years ago, particularly if one cooks from scratch.
Sure, I eat sushi and my great-grandmother didn't, but the technology
of fishing, growing and cooking rice, etc., produce a result that is
not all that different from a century ago. The big revolution that has
changed our diets has been in transportation and communication, not in
agriculture.

> > There's a big world out there,
> > and and awful lot of them eat just as their ancestors did.
>
> Yep, their respective ancestors. It wasn't just about them either.
>
>
>
> >> Some of the fruits were much different than what we see. In colonial
> >> times apples were not the tasty eating type we see now. They were more
> >> commonly used as a sweetener for baking, and the other thing they were
> >> used for was making cider.... hard cider and apple jack.
> >
> > This is all true. Yet, if we jumped in our time machine and gave
> > a Honeycrisp apple to my great-great-great grandmother and said,
> > "This is sweet enough to eat", I'm sure she would.
>
> Apparently someone did start eating them fresh and whole rather than in
> baked goods or in a glass.

Apple industry propaganda in (IIRC) the early 20th Century.

Cindy Hamilton