Yeah, it was horrible: farm-fresh produce and grass fed cattle and poultry. Fruit in season and home canned for winter. Fish and game for variety, unsanctioned whole milk and real churned butter. A hundred varieties of apples and tomatoes with tastes and textures unimaginable in today’s markets; real smoked ham and bacon, homemade sausage with eggs that had as much yellow as saffron.
Yeah, our modern palette of mass-produced monoculture and processed foods is quite the culinary pinnacle. Bread made without nutritional value; fruits and veggies solely designed designed for transport and storage; and “meat” made from spare parts and less than 30% ‘broth’ seemingly composed of a chemistry lab accident.
Umm umm, that Rocker feller never had it so good. Heck, he probably only had a French master chef and only a dozen or so junior cooks from all over the world.
Just look at the health benefits, too! My, our modern diet has produced the fattest population in history. You just can’t argue with progress.
I’m with you in spirit. Also, my wife and I very rarely eat at restaurants and don’t do “processed” foods. We also have chickens that produce all the eggs we need and split a calf with friends when we need beef.
All that said, much of the things you describe are necessary to supply food to 7 billion people. Well, at least if most people live like sardines in cities.