I read this morning that the reason frozen veg outfits are closing is because demand has dropped dramatically.
A while back I was told fresh veg are no longer in great demand.
My guess is that potatoes go against this trend, as will soy and other rubbish bean-type stuff.
A wander down the local high street reinforces that thought, with a very large percentage of fat arses and bellies, being propelled by spindly legs and topped by bland, uninterested faces. Sir Bob Jones explored this phenomena in “True Facts”. I recommend the read.
Add the number of sub-Continent and Asian originating people using dried, imported ingredients and the lack of demand starts to make sense.
When I went to school we were educated not just in reading, writing, adding etc. But in life. We were given tales of the life experiences of teachers and their acquaintances.
We knew, before high school, the value of food and had drummed into us the effects the right sort of foods had on our ability to do the things we dreamed about.
We did also have one advantage: We couldn’t afford junk food.
Unlike today we were actually, on the current scale, dirt poor. We had (as families) no choice but to grow and consume our own food, topping that up only when finances permitted.
I wonder if all these facts are related.
Parents and children have suffered (are suffering) a New Zealand school experience where everything comes from a book (usually a communist book – but I digress), where the teacher, by regulation, must keep their life remote, hidden from their charges and education is forbidden; it gets in the way of the indoctrination.
Could it be that the current generations (parent and child) are suffering and human kind is regressing because those generations, having been given everything on a tray, simply do not know how to live, let alone progress?
Could it be they don’t even understand how to prepare and consume actual food?
Highlighting is mine.