Interesting Links for 13-06-2018

[andrewducker]

Lowest public solar power contract in the United States: 2.49¢/kWh

(tags: solarpower usa )

Government will not reverse the referendum even if it loses key votes. Time to bring it down!

(tags: uk government europe Conservatives )

When You Grow Up With Less Than Your Kids, Things Taste Differently

(tags: food poverty )

14 Habits of Highly Miserable People (useful if you have bad mental habits that are making you unhappy)

Obviously, if you have actual mental health issues, then you can't think yourself out of them. But for people who simply have bad mental habits, I think there's a few useful things in there which might help break some of them.
(tags: happiness )

US infrastructure. Now courtesy of Domino's pizza

(tags: pizza infrastructure usa )

Macedonia and Greece: Deal after 27-year row over a name

(tags: Greece Macedonia names )

Composition of complex sugars in breast milk may prevent future food allergies

(tags: breastfeeding allergies )

Today's dads are engaging more with their kids: Fatherhood norms shifting alongside masculinity

(tags: parenting men fatherhood children emotion )

British overseas territories in talks to keep tax haven secrecy

(tags: tax secrecy )

CBI chief: Car firms face extinction because of Brexit

(tags: uk europe cars trade OhForFucksSake )

EU rejects Labour's Brexit single market policy as 'cakeism'

(tags: europe uk labour )

Gig economy: heating engineer wins claim against Pimlico Plumbers

(tags: work uk law )

EA on the backlash against women in Battlefield V: ‘Accept it or don’t buy the game’

(tags: women misogyny games )

Comments

Generational Preferences

[agoodwinsmith]

I doubt that the issue is only less quality food versus higher quality food. I bet the quality of the frozen product isn't as good as it was in his childhood. Swanson's Chicken Pot Pies were extremely yummy when I was eight - and had become quite unfortunate by the time I was 25.

But also - cultural tastes change. My Grampa grew up in a house where the men ate the meat of the Sunday roast, and the women and children had bread and gravy (not kidding). Naturally, as soon as we could, we had a Sunday roast and everybody got meat. And then there was the cholesterol scare and Sunday roasts became a Christmas treat.

However, my Grampa's favourite Christmas Eve treat was oyster stew (which was basically oysters poached in thin cream). Argle. I have never been deprived enough to regard oysters as food. In the 50's the interior of BC would certainly never have had fresh oysters, and there weren't refrigerated trucks. Maybe they were canned? Dunno. Ew.

Re: Generational Preferences

[armiphlage]

Oddly, oysters were popular in the Prairies long before refrigeration. According to Mark Kurlansky's "The Big Oyster", they would be shipped live in wooden barrels of seawater, to be eaten by cowboys. This is why ghost towns in Nevada often are surrounded by piles of oyster shells.

Re: Generational Preferences

[agoodwinsmith]

This isn't a hairy dog story about prairie oysters, is it? I know what they are. :)

Re: Generational Preferences

[armiphlage]

I would not put it past Kurlansky to slip that in.