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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grew up in CA. Lived in Iowa for a couple of years in the 1980s. There was very, very little choice in fresh vegetables is what I recall. They grow few, and the same, crops on huge farms. Soybeans, corn, wheat. So tons of corn for sale in summer
 Not like western/PNW farms with lots of variety. Also seemed to be little interest in dining, gourmet food, vegetarian food, little to no ethnic dining. Nothing like a place to get a slice of pizza. Traditionally no Italian/Jewish influences like on east coast. Also lived on east coast in the same decade: more interest in fresh fish,  dining as something social to do. Midwest more beer drinking; east coast, cocktails.[/quote]

Your memory is faulty or limited then. My husband's family is from Iowa and he grew up on garden grown tomatoes, squash, green beans, cucumbers, etc and plenty of fresh corn all summer long. It's too bad your family didn't figure out how to garden like so many others did. Gardening was a hobby. And of course grocery stores had produce departments even way back in the 1980s.  :roll: [/quote]

I know Gen-X person in Iowa who grew up on a farm similar to your husband’s family but they won’t eat any fresh vegetables. The irony is that they is studying to be a healthcare professional, which is super weird to me because I would have thought there would have been some nutrition classes, but I guess not.[/quote]

And plenty of kids exposed to a variety of fruits and vegetables won't eat them either. There's usually some anxiety or other issue at play, not just lack of exposure.  Health care professionals aren't all paragons of health and nutrition, even when they know better.[/quote]

Anxiety over vegetables? For real?[/quote]

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