I saw a really revealing take one time saying that the post-Gold Rush collapse in San Francisco created this unique situation where there was a massively skewed gender ratio - gold miners were an enforced all-male community - and so feminized labor was put into the marketplace
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Like "instant" lo mein noodles (which became ramen noodles in Japan) are one of the oldest "instant" foods in the world, sold in marketplaces in the Song Dynasty But I mean hamburgers and fries were a thing before the McDonald Brothers too
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That's the funny thing, like McDonald's *created* the negative reputation that stuck to the foods the McDonalds decided were the cheapest and easiest to turn into assembly-line manufacture Which is why the early McDonald's ads feel so weird now
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The original Ronald McDonald could look right at the camera and say "A hamburger, French fries and a milkshake, the perfectly balanced lunch" partly because nutrition was a young science then and partly because no one particularly thought of those as trashy cheap foods yet
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Like it wasn't a big deal for Thomas Jefferson to introduce French fries to the White House and serve them with steak because it was just a new way to make potatoes (Nowadays you have to call them "steak fries" or "frites")
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Now I'm thinking of that Onion article where a McDonald's executive tries to get them to change their whole menu because he thinks those foods are obsolete And he keeps insistently saying "hamburger sandwich" and "French fried potatoes"
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