Re:The Wretched Table: How Dinner in America Became an Ordeal
by Spooky23 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @10:14PM
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Some of it is the agony of choice, and the effectiveness of marketing.
If my dad woke up in 1975 where he lived in Brooklyn and decided that he wanted a Greek yogurt fresh blueberry and organic granola parfait... Well too fucking bad. Best case, you had a tub of Dannon plain yogurt and a bag of frozen berries.
Now everything is available all of the time, and that hyper-specialization of everything has eliminated cheap stuff that everyone bought to get by. Something like flank steak used to be sold for pennies on the dollar, now I see it prices the same as a strip steak!
If my dad woke up in 1975 where he lived in Brooklyn and decided that he wanted a Greek yogurt fresh blueberry and organic granola parfait... Well too fucking bad. Best case, you had a tub of Dannon plain yogurt and a bag of frozen berries.
Now everything is available all of the time, and that hyper-specialization of everything has eliminated cheap stuff that everyone bought to get by. Something like flank steak used to be sold for pennies on the dollar, now I see it prices the same as a strip steak!