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I guess it really takes someone originating from a genuine food culture to drive the emotion home ("tasteless and miserable and they leave behind a lingering se

• YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Heh. Sorry to disappoint you, but like all kids growing up in Southern Europe, in recent years, the proportion of my diet that was Mediterrannean was unfortunately, small. The rest was pasta, chips, steaks, burgers, pizzas, and altogether too much salt and sugar. This is typical- Greece has now the highest rate of child obesity in the EU, and our once healthy, and tasty, diets, have been largely replaced by a predominance of red meat, pasta, rice and potatoes. Thankfully, in between eating all that crap, I was also lucky to have two grandmothers that cooked traditionaly dishes with great skill, and to escape to the countryside every summer, where the local produce was incomparably better than whatever I could by in the big city. So at the very least, I know what we have lost :/