> "Come winter, come sommer. The ingredients were a bit different according
to season."
> Ah, surely it wasn't that bad all over, but yes: gastronomically I am glad
I was born 1971 and not 1951.

I didn't mean that it was negative with the rutinely appearing dishes -
people were less obsessed with food and gastronomically it was different but
not necessarily worse. Vegetarian food did not exist, more or less. The
first vegetarian that I heard of was Sonia Hedenbratt and she was really
fat. Died young too.

Today people eat lots of pasta, rice and potatoes. Large buns with sweet
messy mixtures inside, pizzas. If you order a pasta dish in a restaurant 75%
of the meal will be pasta, 20% will be something runny and the rest fish or
meat if you didn't order a veggie. Yes, I am being a bit negative now. Baked
potatoes was a dish noone knew of before the seventies (Give and take some
time). Besides, young people born in 1951 were a lot slimmer as teen agers
than the ones born 1971.

In short - eating habits today are a lot worse compared to for instance the
50'ies.

> surely you weren't born in the 10th century?

I do feel a bit old sometimes - could that be it?!


>Plus Danes DO eat more high-fat sandwiches and cakes than do Swedes (the
combination "dairy sat.fat - >flour starch - white sugar" being particularly
lethal as we all know) where Swedes traditionally would go for >plain buns
and less elaborate sandwiches.

I definitely agree about the Danes and beer and smoking but Danish
sandwiches (like Scanian) usually has or perhaps I should say had, very
rough sour dough bread and large pieces of meat and/or fish, salad, tomatoes
and other vegetables piled on top of a ridiculously small piece of bread. It
is the Swedes that have the unhealthy large portions of bread and small
rations of meat, fish and vegetables. And the Danes don't eat more cakes and
cookies than the Swedes, especially if we talk of people that are old now.
The reason why the Danes die earlier (10 years for men and 7 for women in
the Copenhagen area) is that they have more deaths in cancer, cronic
bronchitis, liver damages, car accidents and more suicides. The use of
tobacco and alcohol is heavier in Denmark.
http://www.dadlnet.dk/ufl/ufl2027/v_p/33646.htm
The Danish area compared is attached to Sweden by a bridge so the two
countries are geographically very close. Culturally too. Thats why the
comparison is interesting but apparently it is not the food so we are
getting a bit off topic here. Perhaps it's not the food anywhere?
Eva