re: #46 ObserverArt

In those golden days many of the ignorant want to return to but have no idea how it really was forget how people used to store food, prepare food, etc.

Many times you ate from the stored food in your cold cellar, pantry, etc. Much of that was grown in the growing season then prepared for storage by the women of the family. You had potato bins, onion bins, canned fruits and vegetables, etc.

Who does that today? Really no one. And people today want to stop in their grocery store and get fresh lettuce, spinach and other veggies…they don’t want stuff that is in a mason jar. I like a good salad. When I was younger we didn’t have a lot of fresh salads during the winter because half the stuff was out of season. I don’t think you can can lettuce and spinach…you would end up with goop.

The biggest issue with people today is they live in a fantasy of what they think it was or should be. Getting real is the problem. They can’t.

I know it may be wrong, but I suspect so many of these “go to the local farm” types are composed not simply of the dirt-ignorant conservatives who have no clue what life really was like in that mythical Golden Era they think Trump’s taking them back to, but also the “back to the farm” types of liberals who think life was so much better when you knew where your food was coming from and not from factory farms that use GMOs and various artificial substances to preserve food. Both groups have grown up in a nation where the convenience of going to the grocery store has totally wiped out the knowledge of how hard it is to “buy locally.” There’s no big family farms living on the outskirts of your city, trucking in fresh produce daily to your supermarket.