A history of food in the USA

[brewmaster15]

I was interested in what people ate in the USA in the 50s and 60s and came across an article on the history of meals in the USA over the last 100+ years.

I found it to be a really interesting read...learned quite a bit from it.

https://leitesculinaria.com/10348/blog-100-years-american-food.html

[Second Hand Pat]

Very interesting read Al, I enjoyed it.
Pat

[CliffsDiscus]

Good read, sound what the upper middle to the wealthy can spend. I'm still on the Spam diet.

[brewmaster15]

Good read, sound what the upper middle to the wealthy can spend. I'm still on the Spam diet.

lol... its a staple here..shaves years off our lives, but we fry it for breakfast or dice it and fry for a quick fried rice and spam. WE take it camping all the time.

[LizStreithorst]

It never got into the commercial raising of Chickens, Dairy Cows, and beef cows, and hogs. That was disappointing.

[LizStreithorst]

Good read, sound what the upper middle to the wealthy can spend. I'm still on the Spam diet.

Spam doesn't deserve it's bad reputation. I used to poo poo it, but I found that it makes for a great fried rice. I also use it in recipes that call for ham when I dont have a good tasting ham on hand. A good ham costs an arm and a leg. Spam is cheap.

[brewmaster15]

It never got into the commercial raising of Chickens, Dairy Cows, and beef cows, and hogs. That was disappointing.

Liz I think the focus was more on the table side of things.. "commercial raising of Chickens, Dairy Cows, and beef cows, and hogs." would be a great article but a really massive one.

However, thanks to google..

heres one for you.. that covers to 1860

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329492/files/BAEahs5.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwixuNXjwdyJAxUHMVkFHaxOF4AQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Cj__B4P1m-ryyZRDbnCZ0

heres one more current..

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/44292/10992_eib43.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwixuNXjwdyJAxUHMVkFHaxOF4AQFnoECDEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw36lbXYR9Ocjgk2lR4lkIf_

[LizStreithorst]

I'm sure it's a good read, but a bit too much of an effort.

[brewmaster15]

I'm sure it's a good read, but a bit too much of an effort.

LMAO..Liz you are a lot of work ! and I mean that in fond way

[LizStreithorst]

Thank you (?). You know that I do my best, Al.

[Iminit]

lol sorry I’m with Liz. Plus when I went to the site my page filled up with all sorts of advertisements! Got out of there quickly. How can you read with those things constantly popping up?

[brewmaster15]

lol sorry I’m with Liz. Plus when I went to the site my page filled up with all sorts of advertisements! Got out of there quickly. How can you read with those things constantly popping up?

Lmao.. Im sorry. Next time I will retype it for you ad free I keep forgetting that media consumers today have special requirements for consuming information. Im used to reading what I find interesting and filtering out the junk around it. Not a fan of ads but if you want to get paid for your work.. thats what some businesses/individuals need to do.

The content of the article is very interesting and the history.

[LizStreithorst]

I'll give it another try. I hate what they do to animals these days, but it keeps food cheap.

When I raised dairy goats I had lots of meat in the freezer since half of the kids born are male and not suitable for breeding. When I had chickens, I processed many roosters. These days I can no longer do that due to my old age problems. I don't eat beef often since it's so expensive but I eat a lot of chicken which I know are raised in deplorable conditions. I also eat a lot of farmed catfish, wild caught shrimp, and once in a while some pork. The only eggs I eat come from my neighbor who keeps hens. I almost forgot tuna. I buy expensive oil packed wild caught yellow fin tuna. I don't know if it's sustainable or not, but to me it is the only canned tuna with real flavor.

[bluelagoon]

Speaking of food and farming. The farmers these days can sleep well even when they know that they are poisoning use all including the farmer. Take Round -up the weed killer. That is in all of the GMO wheat, corn and other cereal grains we use today. In this case GMO means that the plant can with-stand the herbicide and then it is fed to us and the animals we eat. So, basically the government gave the farmers the go ahead to poison our food. Bread and cereal is not as healthy as it used it be and can actually cause cancer.

[LizStreithorst]

The problem is that small farms cannot feed a hungry world. It's a catch 22.