Colonisation and industrialization changed preferences: tea with sugar became trendy, and people ate white bread and butter with it, replacing more nutritious f

Colonisation and industrialization changed preferences: tea with sugar became trendy, and people ate white bread and butter with it, replacing more nutritious foods people before, like pease porridge (a legume stew). https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Taste_of_Empire/QMuYDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=pease%20porridge https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Taste_of_Empire/QMu... And similarly, settlers who were living in placed like North America and Australia, with completely different growing conditions that what they were used to, ended up growing cash crops. But all they could buy with the money was flour and sugar and oil and other industrialized foods.