Sandra Dodd

REALLY interesting:

An article in the Guardian about how the term junk food is more about class than
about food:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100102199/this-jihad-against-junk-food-is-driven-by-naked-snobbery-for-the-lifestyles-of-the-lower-orders/

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I want to point out that the moms pushing ships through the fence weren't giving them potato chips (American style / Brit="crisps"), but a large portion of nice fried/steamed potatoes.

The term "junk food" should NOT include hamburgers, either. It started off to be Twinkies and other things that were heavily preservatives, and unnatural. Hamburgers are "fast food." Or they were, before the whole thing got jumbled into a wall of noise.

I like this article, except for the way-broad use of "junk food." But it wasn't written in the U.S. and that matters too.

"Council estates" are low-income apartment houses (in American usage, I think; can't speak for other places).

Sandra

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m_aduhene

just envisioning the mummies pushing the "ships" through the fences.......sorry sandra :-)

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
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> REALLY interesting:
>
> An article in the Guardian about how the term junk food is more about class than
> about food:
> http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100102199/this-jihad-against-junk-food-is-driven-by-naked-snobbery-for-the-lifestyles-of-the-lower-orders/
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> ======
>
> I want to point out that the moms pushing ships through the fence weren't giving them potato chips (American style / Brit="crisps"), but a large portion of nice fried/steamed potatoes.
>
> The term "junk food" should NOT include hamburgers, either. It started off to be Twinkies and other things that were heavily preservatives, and unnatural. Hamburgers are "fast food." Or they were, before the whole thing got jumbled into a wall of noise.
>
> I like this article, except for the way-broad use of "junk food." But it wasn't written in the U.S. and that matters too.
>
> "Council estates" are low-income apartment houses (in American usage, I think; can't speak for other places).
>
> Sandra
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Ed Wendell

I was born in 1962 and the term "White Trash" has been around for at least since I was a child growing up in Southern Illinois (Southern Illinois is different regionally than the rest of IL - it is not Mid-West it is Southern).

We didn't have a McDonalds in our town until after I'd left for college, so after 1980. Wal-Mart went in around that time too. K-mart went in in the next town over. But we had 2 or 3 fast food burger drive-ins even without McDonalds. We had a Dairy Queen that was open during the warm months - they served ice-cream treats. There were several diners - the food was probably just as greasy and high calorie. At some point a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a couple of pizza places also went in. In other words there were lots of options to eat out for the community, none of which would be considered healthy by today's standards.

No one was condescending towards the burger eating people - it was just a nice treat to eat out.

Of course a lot of people today would blanch at the way we used to cook too. When I moved to Colorado in 1983 I had a very hard time with the food being so different.


Lisa W.



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Messyfish

My 3 year old ate ice-cream and chips (crisps) for breakfast this morning. Shhhhh... dont tell Jamie Oliver.
Signed
Ex-chef and proud unschooling mum.
(but so we don't fall into the white trash heaven forbid category, the ice-cream was homemade, and the chip were trans fat free) phew!