(07-26-2022, 03:01 PM)Snarl Wrote: Buying un-healthy food is always a choice.
Everyone should think about the length of the Great Depression. I don't care whether you've got food with preservatives in it or not ... your stash won't hold out.
We've all been tricked into believing corporate food is safe to eat. Been that way since at least Mickey-D's. Should fire everyone at the FDA and cancel all their pensions to boot.
Have you seen some of the crap they ate during the Depression? There are stacks and stacks of YouTube videos about it lately. Since both my parents grew up in the Depression, and dad especially was adamant about teaching us how to survive and get by on what you can scrounge, I've eaten a lot of it too. It's mostly just "poor folks food", with a highly inventive twist - Mock Apple Pie, for example, was invented during the depression, because folks wanted apple pie and couldn't get the apples, so they made due with what they COULD get. Not an apple in the while thing, just a bunch of crackers and apple pie spices.
"Unhealthy food" is rising in price just like the rest of it, so it'll soon be time to get inventive again. Unhealthy or not, folks gotta eat, and they get shootin' cranky if they can't... which is probably one of the reasons The Overlords are trying to normalize crime and make it fashionable, so that more folks will have an easier time psychologically in flocking to shooting one another when they cut off the food supply.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’