See the thing is you have to remember that a lot of people’s grandparents now are not great depression or a children. They were raised by those from the Great depression but they developed their own horrible nasty cooking habits in the '50s and '60s.
Yeah, at this point “grandma’s recipes” would be mostly mid-century ones based around boxed or canned hyper processed convenience foods. “Put your French’s® french-fried onions on top of your green bean casserole made with Campbell’s™ cream of mushroom soup” and that sort of shit.
Also, probably half the recipes have their ingredient ratios thrown off by shrinkflation, since they were designed to use whole packages (for even more ‘convenience’) instead of giving proper measurements. And even if you did convert them to real units, nobody wants a recipe that needs 1.25 tubs of Johnson & Mills Bean Lard Mulch because a tub is now only 80% the size of what it used to be anyway!
Great depression, to rationing to factory farm byproducts and processed food.
See the thing is you have to remember that a lot of people’s grandparents now are not great depression or a children. They were raised by those from the Great depression but they developed their own horrible nasty cooking habits in the '50s and '60s.
Yeah, at this point “grandma’s recipes” would be mostly mid-century ones based around boxed or canned hyper processed convenience foods. “Put your French’s® french-fried onions on top of your green bean casserole made with Campbell’s™ cream of mushroom soup” and that sort of shit.
Also, probably half the recipes have their ingredient ratios thrown off by shrinkflation, since they were designed to use whole packages (for even more ‘convenience’) instead of giving proper measurements. And even if you did convert them to real units, nobody wants a recipe that needs 1.25 tubs of Johnson & Mills Bean Lard Mulch because a tub is now only 80% the size of what it used to be anyway!
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