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This is a tangent, but so much of the supermarket nowadays is junk. Go to the protein section, and there is literally no product that is just protein, everythi
by hackerlight 4y ago
This is a tangent, but so much of the supermarket nowadays is junk.
Go to the protein section, and there is literally no product that is just protein, everything has added artificial sweetener or some lab concoction with god knows what.
Go to the frozen food section. 80% junk. Ice cream, frozen potato chips, frozen pizzas. Oh look, some frozen fruit in the corner.
Go to the cereals section. 80% junk. If you look really hard, you can find some wholegrain cereal without added sugar.
Is this the equivalent of when social media companies optimize heavily around taking advantage of dopamine spikes in their customers, instead of doing things in their customer's actual best interests?
Speaking to an older relative, things were not like this in the mid 20th century.
How much cheaper would food be if the healthy staples could be bought in bulk, and our supply chains and packaging were optimized around that?
- binbashthefash 4y agoYou should try tofu
- chrisseaton 4y agoYou can buy almost pure protein in some supermarkets - look for powdered egg whites which are like 99% protein.
- watwut 4y agoI never seen frozen fruit, but frozen vegetables are super common.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoFrozen fruit is usually in its own section and isn't often mixed in with the vegetables. I'm more used to seeing it near desserts. It is, believe it or not, super common. I promise it is common, though: I could find it in pretty much every grocery store I visited in the US (Including aldi) and can find it in most stores here in Norway as well. Some folks seek out frozen peaches and frozen mixed fruit for fruit salad as well - at least they did where I grew up in the Midwest.
- virgildotcodes 4y agoFrozen berries tend to be pretty common from my experience in supermarkets across the US.
- gernb 4y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=frozen+fruit&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=frozen+fruit&tbm=isch
- chrisseaton 4y ago> I never seen frozen fruit Never seen a bag of frozen berries?
- watwut 4y agoGenuinely not. Maybe the really big shops have it somewhere and I did not noticed. It is not shocking it exists, but it is genuinely far from dominating stores. It is vegetables and ice scream dominating here.
- willmacdonald 4y agoIn Sweden you get frozen raspberries, strawberries, cherries, passion fruit, mango, lingon, black berries plus other unusual berries. Frozen avocado too!
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