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I totally agree with your analysis of suburban Americans' lifestyles! Social isolation is endemic in suburbs. > eating bad manufactured food Things have chang
by linkregister 6mo ago
I totally agree with your analysis of suburban Americans' lifestyles! Social isolation is endemic in suburbs.
> eating bad manufactured food
Things have changed dramatically in the last two decades. Food quality has never been better in suburban areas. Every Publix and Kroger has oat milk (I'm using this as a proxy for variety). Produce is fresher and longer-lasting. Consolidation and urbanization has left many rural towns without a local grocery store, requiring longer trips to get food, but suburbia has great variety. Overall food quality and access is better.
- eitally 6mo agoI would suggest that grocery quality is higher in the suburbs than in the city, but restaurant quality typically isn't.
- ghaff 6mo agoThat's probably true but a lot of people don't really eat out at restaurants regularly.
- blipvert 6mo agoYou might use oat milk as a proxy for ultra-processed food. I used to live next door to a farm and I know how milking works - don’t ask me to milk an oat, though.
- danielbln 6mo agoAt least oats don't have to be perpetually kept pregnant while taking their offspring away from their mothers. See, snide comments cut both ways.
- blipvert 6mo agoIndeed. I’m only making the suggestion that the metric might not be good as a proxy. It’s a brutal business.
- hunterpayne 6mo agoI see someone has no idea how farming actually works.
- danielbln 6mo agoWhy don't you enlighten us?
- themanualstates 6mo ago1. Grind whole oats into flour (to add surface area) 2. Soak the flour in water 3. Strain (remove the pulp) Not ultra-processed; just ultra-marketed.