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Apr 22, 2016 - 10:17 AM
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jackfu
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What do you think?
Take foods for example. Offal such as liver, kidneys, heart, tongue, intestines (“chitlins”, chitterlings, etc.), “mountain oysters”, things like that are now found in mainstream and expensive restaurants as premier gourmet offerings.
These foods (and sometimes those who had to rely on them for sustenance) were once mocked by the same people who now think of them as fine dining.
Numerous people I know are nowadays raising their own (“free range”) chickens for the eggs. These same folks, if offered those same eggs by Farmer Brown a few years ago would have puked and passed out!
Several coworkers bring eggs from their chickens to work to sell or give away. And it’s most often folks of the intellectual elite class with Ph.Ds, etc., that are the ones who are so into it.
When we have a church-wide breakfast at my church, we have people clamoring for the egg cartons for their own use. Any examples you’d care to share?
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No offense, but unless you've been in suspended animation since 1969, organic free-range health foods have been in vogue for decades.
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According to The Frank Muir Book, oysters were once the foods only of the lower classes.
I think it was Samuel Johnson's servant who kicked the master's cat, because the master made him go out and buy oysters to feed to the cat.
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It's just a fact that stuff goes upwards and becomes chic over time, given ENOUGH time.
As regards food, in previous centuries the rich and poor both ate badly in Europe, but in different ways. The rich in 18th Century France thought vegetables beneath them, and all had bad teeth from sugar, and gout from offal. The poor had great fibre but got a lot of their protein from cheese, despite the fact that they worked harder. So medically the 'upward' trend is healthier, since the rich destroyed themselves. The poor ate badly only because they had to, the rich because they chose to, but neither knew why, though the poor lived more NATURALLY and biologically and ecologically more soundly, when they could eat at all.
Archery was the martial art of the peasants in mediaeval Europe until the young ladies of Victorian England took it up in bastardised form as a fun thing. Black African American music was not chic until the last century, then it became the rebellion badge of whities.
But note that the upward trend is generally healthy, it was the aristos whose dietary habits were surreal. Probably more Americans in the heartlands are embracing what they should never have rejected.
Age makes things sacred. You can see L. Ron Hubbard's flaws upfront where you can't see Moses's.
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