The amount of meat and oil and stuff being tremendously indulgent by Old Country standards and yet the level of craftsmanship and quality etc. being at the level of the meanest peasant food The invention of junk food/fast food The whole American experience in a nutshell
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So like she intentionally left sugar out because, you know, Americans could stand to have less of it (just as she emphasized acid as an element because it's so central to Iranian cuisine, the tradition she was raised with, and Americans are scared of sourness)
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*Stares in Warheads, Lemon Drops and Sour Patch Kids.* Ok point taken, we only do sour drenched in sweet.
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This was something I learned early, as I have reactive hypoglycemia and need to limit my sugar intake or, uh, die. So reading labels and finding out how much sugar was in just the most mundane stuff was a huge shock to my parents. Stuff that seemed healthy but really wasn't.
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I'm in the minority with this because shoofly pie notwithstanding, the Pennsylvania Dutch baked goods I grew up on don't have a ton of sugar because the recipes are from before refined sugar was cheap. I didn't get the palate for super sweet drinks and things as a result.
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I think our ridiculous work culture is also skewing US palates towards sweet, as who has time to make pasta sauce from scratch to feed kids between jobs? So people grow up with more processed and fast food than our grandparents did.
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