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>From: Gale [log in to unmask]

>Looking back, and in part because we were relatively poor, rural people - we ate so damn well - with a huge garden - pasture-fed >beef, free-range chicken and eggs- and (probably the reason I find commercial fish so lacking) fresh walleye (pickeral).  Oh for the >good old days.

>gale

Wow, how things have changed. You basically ate better as poor rural folks than do middle and upper middle class people do these days.  Many people just can't afford the extra cost of  "pasture-fed beef, free-range chicken and eggs"   It is getting hard to afford the commercially raised meat products these days.
 
I also remember as a child sneaking and eating raw ground beef. Now these days you are endangering your life if you eat raw spinach!