Yes, that is what home made food looks like sometimes.
You’re not in a restaurant, the “cook” isn’t payed, and presentation is not high on the priorities list if you also have to do dishes, wash clothes, and organize life for the family, possibly in addition to a job.
Right? And let’s be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire
This is why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of British food.
1987 was nearly 40 years ago…
Not even comparable😂 Americans look back at this and laugh or cringe, Brits still eat their old-timey slop
Hey most of us stopped eating that way.
And started eating way, way worse
Maybe “worse” in the sense of health, but certainly not taste.
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I used to think I hated vegetables as a kid. Turns out I hated my parents “cooking”
My mom used to make liver every Thursday. She now denies that ever happened, which is hilarious.
What’s even more silly about this is that you never bothered to cook it yourself to experience better cooked food and the reason is? Idk for me it was because I am lame and too shy to ask to change the established way of life. On the other hand I have adjusted to eat food of all sorts even though it is displeasing. Except foods that have capsaicin or or peppers, I’m allergic to them.
Things were much different before the internet. “Food porn” wasn’t really a thing (unless maybe you sought it out in cookbooks, and even then…). Hell, Food Network didn’t exist until the mid-90s, and back then it was a third-rate cable channel that nobody watched.
If you’re a child in that world, how would you even know that vegetables could be good?
And yet I still believe there were kids who had good tasting vegetables. I already agreed that some didn’t but the ones who did? It was still common for kids to not step up and learn. Oh well, how about I just accept whatever you say but not actually believe your narrow view of life?
You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.
This. I didn’t know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?
idk, am I privileged to have a family who cared enough to go to eat out once in while like once a month ?
I fail to see how you can think I am trying to relate to someone who never had decent vegetables. It’s not like it is impossible for many of us to eat decent vegetables at one point. I clearly am not trying to be relating to everyone’s background. You are simply nitpicking and didn’t bother reading or understanding my comment.
Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.
Fr I don’t think you want to think about it much past the surface level. I agree to some points but not the myth that kids all kids can’t taste good vegetables at all. Conversation ran it’s course, I don’t mind. It is what it is. I believe differently.
I don’t know why you say “points” plural. I made one point and it’s that shortrounddev@lemmy.world came to a very logical conclusion as a kid. No mention of any other kids, let alone all kids. But no matter. If you believe that you know more about shortrounddev’s life than shortrounddev, then we’re starting from a completely different basis of contradictory facts. You are correct if your bases are correct, and likewise for mine. Maybe you do know more about their life for all I know. I’m just an Internet stranger. I don’t know you. I don’t know shortrounddev.
Ok 👍
Do you want to talk about it?
I kept it short cause I didn’t think there much else to talk about. I expressed my opinion, big no-no on the internet but whatever
Oh man… my mom called it “rice stuff.” It tasted like it looked.
“French cut” green beans make me irrationally angry.
They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don’t understand how just the way they’re cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they’re also soaked in lye or something. Or maybe the exposed inner part of the beans absorbs metal from the can.
I’m guessing it’s more dependent on the brands you’re buying, but there shouldn’t be that significant of a flavor change. Also most cans have a liner inside them to protect the contents from chemically affecting the contents. I just checked a few sources for various products, and all of them were simply the beans in a water solution.
Some did include salt, which may be having a minor effect. The French cut, julienne, provides a higher surface area / volume ratio. This means the beans will “marinate” in the solution more effectively than larger cut beans. As in, the salt and water have better access to the inner parts of the beam, leaving them more tender and “marinated.”
I’m using that weird very loosely because I honestly can’t remember the right word.
It’s not the taste so much as the texture. The difference in a green bean casserole made with French cut green beans and whole, cut, green beans is night and day. And by that I mean only one is worth eating. The other is just mush.
Please, explain
The anger is irrational and thus cannot be rationally explained.
Can I ask you to explain it crazy then?
Sure thing
I think I remember this one… Banned Wow account? Tv remote up butt?
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fun fact, that plate has lead in it.
showing lead (Pb) from the pattern.Damn is this your picture? Did my comment cause you to go and test for yourself? Cuz thats amazing if you did lol
When I found out they had lead last year, I went to work with the cup to confirm. This is a handheld XRF, which depends on the specific spacing of electrons in atoms to determine the identity. Not much to it other than point and shoot! (with shielding)
Modern tools are fascinating, the way you described it sounds so absurdly high tech
That is not a cheap toy. I’ve heard of them, never seen one. What is it and how much was it?
This is a Thermo handheld XRF. I wasn’t working at this place when it was purchased, but it was somewhere between $40k-$60k.
I’m pretty sure that’s Corelle. Do they still do this today? Because all of our dishware are fucking Corelle
Edit: Ok so they stopped putting lead since 2005 so we should be safe. But how come they only stopped in 2005
But how come they only stopped in 2005
Probably ran out of their stock of lead around that time
Who needs government regulations, amirite?
It’s not like widespread lead exposure has ever had any negative effect… Oh wait.
My aunt always drops off the fucking best, most fattening, rich meals ( “church food” ) and it is always on a plate or bowl from that company that her family has had since at least the 80’s. I will not stop eating from those dishes, I don’t even care , it’s worth it.
Not sure, regulations probably? Too worn out from existing today to Check
Wouldn’t surprise me if money > children’s brains, this is America after all
Properly fired it’s pretty tough to get any meaningful amount of lead out of a glaze on ceramics.
I’d bet they did it because of pressure from customers.
I have corelle (or corealle?) but mine are all white and don’t have the decorative print. Does that mean mine are safe from lead?
I believe it was just the one (or maybe two?) specific design… I have one from circa 2004-2005 with a different pattern, and I remember looking into this a few years back and finding out that mine was probably ok.
The lead helps to create a super white white.
I’m signing up for Twitter soon.
Yeah yeah, there could be layers that are not visible. I don’t fuckin know.
What part of the plate has lead? The plate itself or the paint?
The paint in the pattern
That’s not very fun
It sure will be when the lead-induced delirium kicks in.
I still own a few of those plates… 😶
i do too, they aren’t used anymore though.
Oh no, I ate off plates like this as a kid. That explains a lot.
You’re fine. The lead is bound in inert glass and only in the design. You would have had to chip off the design and eat it to have any problems.
I think we still have one of those plates in the cabinet. It’s not in normal rotation, tho.
You can play poker with the symbols on the outside.
Most of that looks like it already passed through a person once.
At least once…
…the brown slop on the left could easily be a two’fer!
I have those exact plates…
Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, manoomin, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.
Meals like this are exactly why I don’t ever use condensed soup in anything I make. I’ve had a lot of meals like that growing up. My family, my grandparents, my friends families… My wife still will make stuff like this sometimes. It’s all just lazy mush to me. I can’t stand it. Even my mother-in-law, who makes her own soup stock and makes bread and has her own chickens will make condensed soup and canned green bean mush. I just do not understand.
Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:
Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.
The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.
Boomers across the country still have china hutches FULL of these plates. With probably more plates in storage.
Calling dinner supper is super Minnesotan, too.
Wait until you have family that say that daily meals are chronologically “breakfast, dinner, and supper.”
WHERE THE FUCK IS LUNCH @_@
Are you telling me they call lunch “dinner”?!
Yup! Or more specifically, “noon dinner.”
It might be a Midwest farming thing where there are multiple snack times between chores outside. Two generations ago, my family had a quick 5 a.m. breakfast and lunch (or second breakfast) in the morning These weren’t full meals in the traditional sense. Dinner meant coming in and sitting at the table for a prepared meal. Otherwise it was just stopping in the house for a small bite and a drink.
In the afternoon, they had tea time at 3 p.m. (black tea with snack cakes or open-face sandwiches). By evening, there’d be a last big meal (supper) before going to bed.
It was super confusing for me being the first generation that didn’t grow up on the farm.
What do they call brunch, brinner?
It’s kind of Bostonian too, but then it’s pronounced “suppah”.
Supper is eaten from 4-6 while dinner is eaten from 5-7 in my experience. Dinner is usually a heavier meal than supper, as well.
Wait, no one else calls it that?
Others do, it’s a Midwestern thing.
Where I’m from, it’s interchangeable.
I know its meant to represent 1987 but why canned?
I was born in '87 and I distinctly recall eating a lot of canned veggies growing up. I’m sure it’s what my mom grew up (in Newark, NJ) eating, and so it probably just passed on down when she was a young mother. I’m curious if canned veggies were just the rage at the time or if it was so because access to the fresh stuff wasn’t as available.
I grew up with frozen vegetables, my wife grew up with canned… Just one of our many incompatibilities…
Similar experience in rural Michigan, same time period. I’m sure that’s how my mom grew up as well. Fresh veggies were quite available out there, but we still got canned. My grandma wasn’t a great cook, and even though my mother has a ton of fantastic skills, cooking isn’t one of them.
In Europe it would have been a thing because of Tschernobyl blowing radioactivity across the land for a while.
Dogfood on the right, catfood on the left, goat chow in the middle
TEETH ARE OPTIONAL IN THIS HOUSE
My mom used to make me add a can of mixed vegetables to my instant ramen until we agreed that I could eat them separately. So I would quickly force down the bland, mushy veggies then enjoy my ramen in its pure form.
