This is actually a really big reason I got into culinary. I’m autistic, and growing up I thought I hated vegetables. Turns out I do like vegetables, it’s just that I don’t like raw vegetables and nobody in my childhood knew how to cook vegetables.
I’ve had this conversation with my parents before that I probably wouldn’t have been nearly as reticent about eating vegetables as a kid if “vegetables” didn’t mean “canned green beans slopped into a pot and heated up for 3 minutes”
Part of it is that fruits and veggies are not subsidized in the US, and it shows in the grocery prices. Consumers can save a lot of money by pretending they don’t need them, and fad diets are happy to uphold that pretense.
40% of Americans avoiding fresh fruit and vegetables up from 38% of Americans avoiding fresh fruit and vegetables
Yeah I’ve been asked at work if I’m a vegetarian because a coworker saw me eating a vegetable. Americans are afraid of produce.
This is actually a really big reason I got into culinary. I’m autistic, and growing up I thought I hated vegetables. Turns out I do like vegetables, it’s just that I don’t like raw vegetables and nobody in my childhood knew how to cook vegetables.
Americans just don’t know how to cook.
I’ve had this conversation with my parents before that I probably wouldn’t have been nearly as reticent about eating vegetables as a kid if “vegetables” didn’t mean “canned green beans slopped into a pot and heated up for 3 minutes”
Even then, you can make that shit taste good if you add seasoning and let it carmelize a bit.
Seeing Americans comment on prosciutto e melone saying “this would be infinitely better without the cantaloupe”
Part of it is that fruits and veggies are not subsidized in the US, and it shows in the grocery prices. Consumers can save a lot of money by pretending they don’t need them, and fad diets are happy to uphold that pretense.
Dammit I was gonna make this exact joke with this exact percentage.