When I was a kid back in the Jurassic food was very different. We're pretty much land locked here so there wasn't any fresh seafood avilable. People thought you were a rebel if you used anything other than salt and pepper to flavour your cooking. We had red meat, spuds, carrots, and whatever else we could grow in the garden.
Butternut squash? What the hell is that?
Now everything is different. We've discovered curries and spices, vegetables are no longer boiled to mush. There are still a few holdouts who refuse to try Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, or sushi, claiming raw fish is nothing more than "bait," but these bland palate guys are becoming fewer all the time.
I live in a city of about a million people, and we have a pretty good choice of food from different cultures here, not to mention the horrible fast food places like McDonalds that seem to be on every corner, so we are slowly learning that there is more to the world than roast beef, mashed potatoes, and Saskatoon pie. |