Beth Denton 🌈🧠@Clouddweller @karawynn @marc_w @actuallyautistic yeah some foods are like that, although I’ve recently discovered that I should occasionally revisit things I thought I hated. (Recently I discovered anchovies are delicious, which was definitely not the case when I was twelve). But canned spinach historically has been a shelf stable way to preserve and access a highly nutritious food (all those vitamins) so that’s why it is a thing.
Liz Field 🏳️⚧️ She/They@marc_w @karawynn @Clouddweller @mathdenton @actuallyautistic my mom only served creamed spinach & canned or frozen vegetables growing up. Turns out I love fresh veggies but that wasn’t really a thing for most middle class mainstream Americans in the 70s. I’ve often wondered if my “picky” eating habits were more about how everything was heavily processed & laden w/ “extras”. I could also never do anything too sweet or w/fake sugar.
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I was listening to a food history podcast and there was definitely a different perception - canned and packaged foods were labor saving inventions that opened up new ways of eating for people.
But fake sugar is so nasty. Ewwww.
@mathdenton @actuallyautistic @marc_w @karawynn @Clouddweller which podcast? I’m looking for new ones to get into, and love food history. My parents were both depression era kids to so I think there was also a sense of buying foods that would last longer in the pantry. One of the things I’m most proud of is teaching myself how to cook with fresh, whole foods & passing that on to my kids.
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It was “Eat Your Heartland Out,”I think.
I like cooking with all kinds of ingredients. There are definitely nights where I come home and only have the spoons remaining to cook if I don’t have to chop the onions and I can just dump some cans in with some ground chicken or something.