/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7711592
Like I said, the 20th Century was brutal for food in America. The dustbowl, the depression and WWII were part of it. The rise of industrialized food production, the supermarket, women in the workforce and modern advertising were huge factors as well.

But the results were a whole lot of really awful, degraded foods being normalized as part of our cuisine.

>>7591353
Oreos are totally fucking gross, but there are plenty of gross foods people develop a love for in childhood and just keep eating as adults. Pic related.

>>7564568
Just about any popular food tastes good, because most people won't eat things that taste bad. The question is whether the particular version that became popular is a really good example of that food.

Nutella is popular because chocolate and hazelnut is a classic combo. But it isn't really a great example of that combination.

Chipotle is popular because burritos are pretty fucking good, but I wouldn't consider their burritos a great example of the form.

McDonald's is astonishingly popular because a burger and fries is hard to argue with, even one made from the cheapest possible ingredients.

Bacon is so fundamentally delicious that even garbage like Oscar Meyer still tastes good.

And mac and cheese is so good even a seriously degraded instant version in a blue box is popular.

>>7493127
What good food do poorfags have to talk about when they're eating shit like pic related?

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>>7234549
>Very average cookies.
I find them terrible, but there are plenty of terrible things people nostalgia for. Like pic related.

>>7190517
>In the 50s America got into the Supermarket meme.
>Supermarkets largely carried crap because processed food lasts longer and they're cheaper.
This is mostly true. Over the last decade or two many supermarkets have upped their game in the fresh veg department, but still most of the food in a supermarket, even an upscale one, is shit. Most of the meat is commodity grade stuff. Entire aisles are devoted to completely useless things like snack foods, soda and breakfast cereals. All but a few of the food products sold are mass produced in factories, and contain all manner of adulteration in the form of coloring, flavorings and preservatives.

Most folks make their purchase decisions based on price and convenience, not flavor or nutrition. Being too particular about what you eat is seen as effete, pretentious or snobbish, so even those with enough money to buy better food generally do not, because they never really cultivated discriminating taste. Hell, there are many Americans who get their groceries from places like Walmart, Costco and BJ's - basically places that ONLY sell garbage.

The few who really give a shit about food aren't doing much shopping at the supermarket anyways. They shop at specialty shops, food co-ops and farmer's markets. They are not buying pic related.

>>6682308
>Food gore would imply that it was not delicious
Not always. Sometimes food gore can be something that turns out delicious, while both looking like hell AND like eating it is going to hurt you very badly. This is the case here.

Let's break it down: a low quality "steak" smothered with a gravy that does not owe its existence to the cooking of that steak, sitting beside an inordinate quantity of mashed potatoes that are either loaded with butter or margarine (you can't tell). Not a vegetable in sight. It could be delicious, but it's food gore the same way pic related is delicious, but is also food gore.

>>6657009