On Mon 05 Sep 2005 09:24:55p, Craig Welch wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:44:21 GMT, Faux_Pseudo
> > wrote:
>
>>French Frys: I miss beef tallow.
>
> The chips I buy are cooked in beef tallow.
>
>>Ground Beef: it used to have flavor.
>
> Still does. My butcher takes regular beef, the kind I would
> ordinarily buy, and minces (grinds) it for me.
>
>>Dried herbs: a little used to go a long way.
>
> Much more availability of fresh herbs in the supermarket now.
>
>>Milk: it used to have flavor, now even the hole milk stuff is laking
>>substance.
>
> I've never tasted milk as good as the full fat milk I buy now from
> Maleny Dairies. Not homogenised. Have to fight my wife to see who
> gets their finger in the top of the bottle first to lick a dollop of
> cream.
>
>>KFC: used to have 11 herbs and spices. Now just salt, water, flower,
>>msg, peper.
>
> Couldn't comment. Don't eat that kind of junk food.
>
>>Sausage: has lost almost all flavor and the only ones with kick now
>>are the "hot" ones.
>
> See my comment above regarding ground beef. It applies equally to my
> butcher's sausages.
>

The fact that you're half a world away from where I live accounts for a
lot. I live in the desert SW of the US, and I think foods in the US in
general have degraded over the years.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four,
unless there are three other people.