• 8 Posts
  • 5.05K Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 16th, 2024

help-circle












  • Growing up, my diet was almost 100% SAD, with one exception: even poor kids in America generally get fruit. Fruit was available, even if it was just apples/oranges/bananas most of the time.

    Almost everything was packaged or made with packaged products (casseroles–the great mid-late-century family filler!). A good home-cooked meal was a meat, bread (or other carb such as pasta or possibly potatoes), and a canned vegetable. This was largely not the fault of my parents; neither of them were taught to cook and both were young and poor. My mother and her siblings weren’t even allowed in the kitchen and their generation still had few men who knew how to feed themselves. Of course, that neither of them ever learned to cook is much more on them.

    Fortunately for me, I had a natural love of food and curiosity for all things foreign, so I taughtmyself to cook when I was an adolescent. Once I was able to drive, I took over all the grocery shopping.

    These days, my diet is maybe 30% SAD. Worse than it used to be because I can no longer cook as much as I used to (disability/health issues) and rely on instant food or delivery more than I would like. I also enjoy the occasional junk food, of course. Mostly, I live on seafood, produce, and simple carbs (white rice or noodles).




  • “The mass killings by Iranian security forces since January 8 are unprecedented in the country and a stark reminder that rulers who massacre their own people will keep committing atrocities until they are held to account,” said Lama Fakih, program director at Human Rights Watch.

    I must admit that I had ignorantly assumed Iran’s government already had a history of mass killing of protesters, with the unconscious thought, “How else could they be living under such an oppressive dictatorship?”

    A lesson to be learned now by my fellow Americans and me, and everyone else living in a society marching to the right.