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I think it's more that as Americans have evolved and more people seek white-collar occupations, and as women have taken more career (as opposed to domestic) pat
by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
I think it's more that as Americans have evolved and more people seek white-collar occupations, and as women have taken more career (as opposed to domestic) paths as dual-income households become necessary to survive especially in places like SF, people have lost critical skills. Like how to cook healthy with a few basic ingredients. Most of the people I work with don't know how to use an oven. I don't think half of them know how to shop at a grocery store, either. If Uber Eats ceased to exist I'm concerned they would starve to death or be forced to survive on peanut butter and jelly.
When you convince enough people that $13 for a grilled cheese sandwich is acceptable, that becomes the norm. It's the milkshake scene in Pulp Fiction become reality.
- Georgelemental 4y agoBad cooking habits are a problem for sure, but they are not the whole story. Good cooking can only do so much to redeem bad ingredients, and American ingredients are often simply terrible. Our meat is bland, tasteless, and stuffed with seed oils (American chicken especially is execrable compared to the what the rest of the world eats). Our fruits and vegetables are bred for size and productivity at the expense of variety, nutrition, and taste. The government reconmends, and in fact often mandates, consuming "low-fat" versions of foods that have had their calories replaced with sugar. And not even with real sugar, because Great Depression-era import quotas keep the price of real sugar high so high fructose corn syrup can be cheaper and big ag lobbies can be happy. Want a fresh tomato with a modicum of flavor? Where I live, all the tomatoes I can find are either ripened off the vine (and therefore worthless) or canned. Yes, many consumers have terrible habits, but systemic forces aren't helping.
- astrange 4y ago> Our meat is bland, tasteless, and stuffed with seed oils (American chicken especially is execrable compared to the what the rest of the world eats). Think you have your conspiracies confused there. The chickens are different because of being washed in chlorine. The cows are fat because they eat soy. It's you who's fat and feminized from the seed oils. …is the current alternative health food theory. But you can easily get grass-feed beef, and people tend to dislike it compared to grain-fed beef, because it tastes grassier and has less fat.
- Georgelemental 4y agoWhen I say American meat sucks, I am not referring to what some random internet blog says, I am referring to my personal experience living outside the US. You don't need to listen to some obscure podcast to realize the difference, you can just taste your food.
- angmarsbane 4y agoHome Economics is no longer coursework in high school so you have generations who have made it to adulthood without basic kitchen training.