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The past was not that cute

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430 points mhb | 3 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bluedino ◴[07 Dec 25 00:03 UTC] No.46177854[source]▶
> The food was extremely good. . . . everything was fresh from the garden.

Was it this, or was it that your mother/grandmother was a great cook? I hear a lot of older people talk about how awful their food was, limited ingredients, everything was boiled...

Food also probably tastes better when you're actually hungry, and not able to Doordash whatever you want to eat at any time of day.

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1. nradov ◴[07 Dec 25 04:56 UTC] No.46179269[source]▶
And if you were lucky enough to get dessert it was something like Jello with a bit of canned fruit inside. Of course that's also why obesity was less of a problem.
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2. _DeadFred_ ◴[07 Dec 25 05:25 UTC] No.46179367[source]▶
Jello was a fancy desert and a way to show you had wealth/prosperity as it required refrigeration, something the poors didn't have.
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3. Qwertious ◴[07 Dec 25 09:14 UTC] No.46180315[source]▶
The poors had refrigeration, in the form of ice boxes. Not refridgerators, just basically eskies that the ice man came and shoved a big block of ice into once a week. So basically you could only make ice cream (etc) on the day the ice man came, if you were poor.

...so people just made their ice cream on that day. It required a little planning, is all.