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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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I feel like a lot of postwar US cooking could be explained by the following facts:

  • A Americans lived through the great depression
  • All Americans lived through world war rationing
  • A huge portion of Americans grew up in a world where things like refrigeration, grocery stores, etc didn't exist.

The end result was the food equivalent of giving a thirteen year old from the 1990s a smartphone for the first time. Just pure disgusting excess with no real rhyme or reason.