Record numbers go hungry in the US

purch

Though I did wonder what on earth you did with the chicken gizzards I saw in the supermarket

Dirty Rice
or
Jambalaya

...............and a few other unmentionable Cajun stuff !!!!

lostinrates

A lot of cooking from scratch is done partially by packet, not scratch, in US. But there are purists just as there are here.

Its not right to say there is no good food in America: there is excellent food available ....and some decent ingredients. Its as blind as saying Italian food is superb (I've sadly eaten some terrible meals in France and Italy, what a waste of calorie allowance!)and I was surprised my the vehemence on my Itaian friends about British women not cooking: there are an awful lot of packet foods in Italian supermarkets, and many of them neither cooked much nor ate at home. (While I was there Italy released figures from a health study indicating it had the fastest growing rate of childhood obesity in Europe)

A lot I think is the same across borders, some people are passionate about good food, or health, or ethical eating and some aren't, some are prevented from being able to be- by various measures.

BTW, if any one here has eaten fiddleheads in US lease tell me what they are like. I've never eaten them, but read about them so much, and have dreams where I'm eating them and they are delicious. I just hav never been in the right place in the right eason to eat them. I want to so very much!

bendix

So what has this thread taught us? Some yanks are obese and some are skinny. Some are rich, and some are poor. Some eat junk food and some cook from scratch.

It's odd - isnt it - that in such a huge country there are such wild variances? Who would have thought it?

nearlynew

Tescos have been selling dog and passing it off as turkey...........

FULL REPORT HERE

ThrowingStonesAtYou

nearlynew wrote: »

Tescos have been selling dog and passing it off as turkey...........

FULL REPORT HERE

Why would they want to do that? Would make sense to do it the other way round, dog is expensive to produce and nobody really knows what it tastes like so they wouldn't know the difference!

iolanthe07

If you are unremarkable but good and committed student in UK further education is available, in US, go whistle.

This isn't true at all. My son attended what they call a Community College (not what we mean by that here) for the first part of his degree. Lots of students don't go on from there, but end up with perfectly respectable Associate Degrees that can land them good jobs in law enforcement, fire fighting, para legal and para medical. You just need motivation, as here. This was entirely free, paid for by the State of California.

bendix

iolanthe . .please don't let facts get in the way of ignorance and prejudice. It is not the MSE way.

ninky_2

bendix wrote: »

So what has this thread taught us? Some yanks are obese and some are skinny. Some are rich, and some are poor. Some eat junk food and some cook from scratch.

It's odd - isnt it - that in such a huge country there are such wild variances? Who would have thought it?

it's not the variety that instructs us but the trends (e.g. similarities). for example, it's taught me that more americans have had their homes repossessed this year than in the entire decade of the great depression. if you look beyond the anecdotal tittle-tattle there are indeed signs of systemic failure in the american system.

ThrowingStonesAtYou

ninky wrote: »

it's not the variety that instructs us but the trends (e.g. similarities). for example, it's taught me that more americans have had their homes repossessed this year than in the entire decade of the great depression. if you look beyond the anecdotal tittle-tattle there are indeed signs of systemic failure in the american system.

How many home owners were in the US in 1929 and how many home owners were in the US in 2009? Without these statistics you can't make any meaningful judgement on the basis of respossessions.

bendix

ninky wrote: »

it's not the variety that instructs us but the trends (e.g. similarities). for example, it's taught me that more americans have had their homes repossessed this year than in the entire decade of the great depression. if you look beyond the anecdotal tittle-tattle there are indeed signs of systemic failure in the american system.

Nonsense. You need to think a lot more widely than that. Given there are millions more homeowners now than in 1929, a better comparison would be the percentage of homeowners who have been foreclosed in 2009 compared to 1929.

Indeed, the fact that homeownership is so much higher in the US now compared to before the Great Depression is a sure sign that capitalism has worked.

What happened in the last 18 months is a natural corrective.