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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda, but very bland food. Like my mom put chicken breasts in the oven with nothing on them. Tuna Casserole. Terrible. [/quote]

+1 in the California Bay Area, of all places. I was born in '79. Tuna casserole was frequent, or plain chicken put frozen on the grill. Cheese tortellini served with garlic bread and a salad. In high school I had cheerios every morning and a cup-o-noodle or white flour quesadilla every lunch. The carb-heavy menu was definitely a consequence of my mom's upbringing (1950s poverty cooking) but[b] I also have clear memories of poor produce quality and stinking aisles in our local grocery,[/b] so maybe the retail grocery distribution network was not really developed in the 90s.

When I was a teen my parents started to realize that we had great fresh seafood available to us, so we had fresh fish at dinner instead. Spicy marinades, even. And in college I lived in a farming town and ate amazing fresh produce all the time. The produce I bought in college was fresher and more varied than what I can get in the DMV today, but DMV groceries are better than what I remember from younger childhood. [/quote]
? I grew up in CA in the 70s/80s. I distinctly recall having fresh fruit year round.  I grew up in Socal, LA County. Maybe our food distribution there was better?

I also grew up eating a lot of seafood, particularly fish.[/quote]

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