Like 4/5ths of the average American diet used to be canned or frozen, so I kind of don’t agree.
Fun Fact, the heir to the Swanson brand is Tucker Carlson, a Fox News show host so bad that his false statements have gotten the network sued on multiple occasions and the defense was that his statements fall under fair use due to being so absurd that no reasonable person would believe them. He actually started the Hydroxychloroquine trend during the pandemic by bringing on a non-doctor to promote the drug with a fake study.
Millions if not billions of dollars were wasted on the drugs distribution and more and more studies when it was effectively useless or in many cases harmful.
Millions if not billions of dollars were wasted on the drugs distribution and more and more studies when it was effectively useless or in many cases harmful.
No way. Do you buy produce? At least around me the produce in supermarkets is absolutely garbage and it has been for quite some time. This predates trump. I’m not talking about “oh they put out the ugly onions jeez” I’m talking flavorless, mushy, literal moldy and rotting sometimes.
Alternatively you can go to the farmers market. It’s only open on Saturday from 9-1, convenient, and costs 30-40% more, but your food isn’t flavorless mush at least that rots within 3 days because they aren’t rotating stock anymore. But even the options here aren’t as good as they were
Global warming will continue to devastate supply chains and make food worse and worse until we finally have to just eat literal slop that has barely any nutrients and was imported from halfway across the world
Sorry to hear that, but maybe it is your location? I haven’t seen too many issues with produce where I am from, outside the price. Farmers markets are the best still and normally cost less than stores, so it is beneficial to try and go to them. It’s still the same crappy hours, though, haha.
I don’t know if we’re all in different places, but I agree with @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com. In particular, every bag of onions and potatoes I’ve bought in the last couple years have had at least one bad veg so damaged that I couldn’t use it – like rotting on the inside kinds of bad. Lettuce seems smaller and more dirty, and everything generally seems older by the time it gets to the store. The only way I can get fruit with any flavor is by going to local farm standsand paying top dollar.
I remember the town I was living in around 2011-2014. They had a privately owned franchise of a regional grocery store. That grocery chain was also starting to roll out a new, affiliated store with a different name that was designed to a more "luxury* store. They only opened a handful, and they were usually much larger and much more expensive, with TONS of options. Like whole aisles dedicated to just fancy olives. Trying to compete with Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.
When I first moved to that town, there was a nearby strip mall being built from the ground up. At that time, the local old grocery store was perfectly fine. As soon as the strip mall with the big premium location opened up, I immediately noticed that the produce in the local store declined. Same price, much lower quality. The good quality stuff was being shuffled to the premium store and sold for 2-3x the price.
Like 4/5ths of the average American diet used to be canned or frozen, so I kind of don’t agree.
Fun Fact, the heir to the Swanson brand is Tucker Carlson, a Fox News show host so bad that his false statements have gotten the network sued on multiple occasions and the defense was that his statements fall under fair use due to being so absurd that no reasonable person would believe them. He actually started the Hydroxychloroquine trend during the pandemic by bringing on a non-doctor to promote the drug with a fake study.
Millions if not billions of dollars were wasted on the drugs distribution and more and more studies when it was effectively useless or in many cases harmful.
Sorry. Went a bit off topic there just now, lol.
Humans are fucking pakleds.
No way. Do you buy produce? At least around me the produce in supermarkets is absolutely garbage and it has been for quite some time. This predates trump. I’m not talking about “oh they put out the ugly onions jeez” I’m talking flavorless, mushy, literal moldy and rotting sometimes.
Alternatively you can go to the farmers market. It’s only open on Saturday from 9-1, convenient, and costs 30-40% more, but your food isn’t flavorless mush at least that rots within 3 days because they aren’t rotating stock anymore. But even the options here aren’t as good as they were
Global warming will continue to devastate supply chains and make food worse and worse until we finally have to just eat literal slop that has barely any nutrients and was imported from halfway across the world
Sorry to hear that, but maybe it is your location? I haven’t seen too many issues with produce where I am from, outside the price. Farmers markets are the best still and normally cost less than stores, so it is beneficial to try and go to them. It’s still the same crappy hours, though, haha.
I don’t know if we’re all in different places, but I agree with @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com. In particular, every bag of onions and potatoes I’ve bought in the last couple years have had at least one bad veg so damaged that I couldn’t use it – like rotting on the inside kinds of bad. Lettuce seems smaller and more dirty, and everything generally seems older by the time it gets to the store. The only way I can get fruit with any flavor is by going to local farm standsand paying top dollar.
I remember the town I was living in around 2011-2014. They had a privately owned franchise of a regional grocery store. That grocery chain was also starting to roll out a new, affiliated store with a different name that was designed to a more "luxury* store. They only opened a handful, and they were usually much larger and much more expensive, with TONS of options. Like whole aisles dedicated to just fancy olives. Trying to compete with Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.
When I first moved to that town, there was a nearby strip mall being built from the ground up. At that time, the local old grocery store was perfectly fine. As soon as the strip mall with the big premium location opened up, I immediately noticed that the produce in the local store declined. Same price, much lower quality. The good quality stuff was being shuffled to the premium store and sold for 2-3x the price.
Hopefully the machines in charge of the matrix make it taste like chicken.