Meat

whisky_galore wrote: »

Not a fan of the mechanically recovered reconstituted chicken sludge myself.

I love it. Brutal getting one in some unknown place and then discovering they’ve breaded a tasteless real chicken fillet.

I think many of us eat too much meat nowadays. I believe most people thrive better with *some* meat in their diet than none though. Too much could give you colon cancer though. As recently as 20 years ago, people would have been amazed and delighted if they bought a sandwich/ wrap and it contained the quantity of chicken that delis consider a standard portion nowadays. Imagine giving that to a 13 year old five times a week in the 1870s or something LOL. That wouldn't have just constituted a "better diet"; this normalised dietary of today's schoolkids would have been beyond the realms of imaginability to the poor child and they would probably have felt immense guilt at the thought of getting to eat so much meat. Until recently it was taken for granted that, due to it's higher cost as a food item, you couldn't just have as much meat as you wanted and that meat was the limiting factor in any sandwich/ meal etc. Dairy and eggs were cheaper (and lower quality and obviously not as satisfying or nice-tasting) sources of protein and seemed to form a much greater proportion of peoples diets (as did cheap carbohydrates, particularly bread and potatoes). It's no surprise at all to me that people in their teens and twenties these days are much taller than their counterparts were twenty plus years ago. That said, even in 2002 the average height of 14 year old boys in Ireland was 23 cm taller than in 1948, and even 9 cm taller than in 1970.