90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have changed lifestyles for good

Re:90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have chan... by tdeck on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:43AM (#24106950)

I don't know. I just listened to this great podcast [1] about victory gardens during WW1 and WW2. Many of them were set up all across the US, but after the war ended people pretty much abandoned them. Turns out growing food is hard work and most people don't want to do it, even as a supplement.

That said I'm definitely making it a goal to never buy green onions again - it's so easy to regrow them.

[1]: https://gastropod.com/dig-for-victory/

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Re:90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have chan... by Jedd on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:13PM (#24128276)

Understood, but I suspect some of that may be cultural (allotment gardens in the UK are extremely popular with lengthy waiting lists), and synchronised with the push in the USA during the 1940's and 1950's towards suburbanisation and consumerism.

My gut feel is that because there was already a popular trend to 'getting your fingers in the soil', as well as the slow food movement, that combined with the forced rethink of how we spend time, effort, and money, we will see some longer lasting effects.

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