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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were white it doesn’t matter where you grew up, you were probably eating the same variety of bland church cookbook food mentioned in the last 2 pages. American cuisine was shockingly uniform. Food Network really opened up people’s eyes to better ways of eating and trying different cuisines. [/quote]

Have you even read the replies? Plenty of us generic white folks grew up in areas with ethnic European food traditions. Italian, Irish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian. You had exposure to your family’s traditions, but also what was offered in the community. Not everywhere eats/ate bland church cookbook food.[/quote]

Dh's family from middle America ate the same 4-5 meat and potato dishes, on rotation - 95% of the time it included potatoes and corn. My side's (New England) diet included fresh fish every Friday (year round), fresh vegetables year round, veal, chicken, steak, lamb - cooked all different ways. It seemed we had a constant, giant vegetable garden, but in reality, it was June to October.

Neither side grew up with much money, but the differences in diet and sustenance, and attitudes toward and around food, are nothing short of stark. [/quote]

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