glad you edited. I was about to tell you you forgot the 12 gallons of milk
jokes aside, let's be careful not to shame fellow proles over their grocery habits, unless it's as ridiculous as 12 gallons of milk. not everyone can buy fresh stuff, not everyone likes it, and not everyone can even necessarily cook. pasta, canned soup... these things are good, cheap options for many people.
For sure, even me, a labor aristocrat *enlightened food enjoyer * buys some of these things, and I've heard about american food deserts, but I do want to poke fun at middle american (and westerners in general, northern europe or australia isn't much better) middle class families with access to good food that still choose to eat overly sweet, bland and processed, day in, day out.
I wonder how much of Western food preferences have been distorted by capitalism. There was a concerted marketing push after WWII to get people go eat more processed food and I have to assume there was a big profit motive there.
I have to wonder if the greatest death toll from car culture is making us even more reliant on processed slop. I can't realistically go to the market more than once a week, and people in food deserts or exurban areas are even worse off. Can't be eating fresh greens and quality ingredients all week because those only last a couple days on the shelves. Canned everything and processed enriched bullshit fills the place and we're all the sicker and poorer instead.
glad you edited. I was about to tell you you forgot the 12 gallons of milk
jokes aside, let's be careful not to shame fellow proles over their grocery habits, unless it's as ridiculous as 12 gallons of milk. not everyone can buy fresh stuff, not everyone likes it, and not everyone can even necessarily cook. pasta, canned soup... these things are good, cheap options for many people.
For sure, even me, a
labor aristocrat*enlightened food enjoyer * buys some of these things, and I've heard about american food deserts, but I do want to poke fun at middle american (and westerners in general, northern europe or australia isn't much better) middle class families with access to good food that still choose to eat overly sweet, bland and processed, day in, day out.Most people eat the food they grew up eating.
I wonder how much of Western food preferences have been distorted by capitalism. There was a concerted marketing push after WWII to get people go eat more processed food and I have to assume there was a big profit motive there.
I have to wonder if the greatest death toll from car culture is making us even more reliant on processed slop. I can't realistically go to the market more than once a week, and people in food deserts or exurban areas are even worse off. Can't be eating fresh greens and quality ingredients all week because those only last a couple days on the shelves. Canned everything and processed enriched bullshit fills the place and we're all the sicker and poorer instead.
Oh the US diet for sure. That’s why it’s so unhealthy.