Interesting topic (for a change)

There was a great special on PBS a couple years ago called "People Like Us" that explored how social class impacts our lives.

One of the segments, based on the social implications of white bread and wheat bread, featured a battle over a co-op in Burlington, VT. In this case a co-op had replaced a local chain grocery store. The poorer members of society were all up in arms because they could not buy white bread at the co-op even though the co-op offered loaves of organic wheat bread for less than a dollar.

The segment also went to a local food bank where they were unable to give away loaves of really expensive fresh-baked organic bread but quickly ran out of cheap processed white bread.

Basically the segment was arguing that poorer, working-class Americans view food as a status symbol. In this case organic wheat bread is the food of wealthy, bohemian liberals (Bobos) and the lower classes want nothing to do with it because it is incongruous to their social class.

The same could be said for espresso, non-iceburg lettuce, and pretty much all ethnic foods besides italian and chinese.

well, if poor people want to eat white bread and iceberg lettuce because they have too big a chip on their shoulder to eat healthy foods becasue they associate the healthy foods with the hated "rich" people, then they get what they deserve…that's just preposterous…

however, if they go for that stuff because those are the tastes they are used to and the healthier foods taste strange to them, that's another story…they'd just have to work on retraining their tastes to healthier foods

Originally posted by Celeste:
well, if poor people want to eat white bread and iceberg lettuce because they have too big a chip on their shoulder to eat healthy foods becasue they associate the healthy foods with the hated "rich" people, then they get what they deserve

Amen.

Natural selection exists for a reason.

My students in rural North Carolina always asked me "What's that?" whenever I ate yogurt.

and remember at that NASCAR race when I was eating a sandwich with avocado, that guy next to me was like, "what's that green stuff"…

Well I wouldn't have known that myself until i started dating/got married to a food snob!

Originally posted by Celeste:
and remember at that NASCAR race when I was eating a sandwich with avocado, that guy next to me was like, "what's that green stuff"…

YES! This was what I was trying to get at earlier.

Originally posted by Celeste:
however, if they go for that stuff because those are the tastes they are used to and the healthier foods taste strange to them, that's another story…they'd just have to work on retraining their tastes to healthier foods

And that's where you say, "moldy cheese."

Originally posted by Celeste:
and remember at that NASCAR race when I was eating a sandwich with avocado, that guy next to me was like, "what's that green stuff"…

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