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Is food better or worse than it used to be?

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keepingquiet Mon 09-Feb-26 09:23:49

Seasonal fruit and veg are still available, you don't have to buy tasteless strawberries in winter. I certainly don't.

Maybe we had better taste-buds as children? Our ability to taste certain things changes as we get older anyway.

Yes, I use to love bacon 'dip' and fried bread, tomato sausage and streaky bacon, but don't miss the fact they were very unhealthy.

Most food was bland and unseasoned when I was a child- potatoes were mashed with margarine not butter. Rice pudding? Horrible with skin on top.

Now we have been spoiled by being open to foods from all over the world that just taste more exciting and are when cooked properly, truly a treat for those tastebuds.

You can keep your boring tapioca and soggy over cooked veg.

I much prefer the variety available now.

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Oreo Mon 09-Feb-26 09:17:49

It’s an interesting question.
It’s good to have more choice but better to wait for seasonal produce which have more taste and less air miles.
Too much salt and processed food is making us a nation of fat people, with all the added health problems.
Fast food outlets proliferate throughout our towns and cities.

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ROMILO Mon 09-Feb-26 09:12:09

When I was young roast beef and Yorkshire pudding or roast lamb and mint sauce were a regular Sunday lunch. Roast pork not so often as it was more expensive and roast chicken was a special occasion meal.
Fish was a cheaper mid week meal, we often had cod steaks which you dont see now. Salmon was very much a luxury. Of course there was very little factory farming and most of our food was produced in this country.
We would look forward to the first new potatoes, runner beans, peas,local tomatoes and strawberries.
Now chicken and beef is imported by the ton to satisfy our appetite for ready meals and take aways. Shelves are groaning with cheap imported pork and farmed salmon.
Now you can buy anything you want at any time of the year. Huge red tasteless strawberries and tomatoes, all kinds of exotic fruit and vegetables but is having the variety better?
When I was small I saw a kiwi fruit for the first time and asked my mother to buy one for me. I ate it there and then , when my mother asked what it was like I said like a big hairy grape with tough skin and a lot of seeds, I still don't like them .
So have we sacrificed quality and home produced for variety and quantity, I think we have.

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