{"id":34632,"date":"2017-12-02T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34632"},"modified":"2017-11-21T07:49:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:49:59","slug":"qotd-why-mid-20th-century-americans-ate-what-they-did-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/qotd-why-mid-20th-century-americans-ate-what-they-did-1\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Why mid-20th century Americans ate what they did &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most people are not that adventurous; they like what&#8217;s familiar. American adults ate what they did in the 1950s because of what their parents had served them in the 1920s: bland, and heavy on preserved foods like canned pineapple and mayonnaise.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-10-30\/friday-food-post-the-economics-behind-grandma-s-tuna-casseroles\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Friday Food Post: The Economics Behind Grandma&#8217;s Tuna Casseroles&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2015-10-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are not that adventurous; they like what&#8217;s familiar. American adults ate what they did in the 1950s because of what their parents had served them in the 1920s: bland, and heavy on preserved foods like canned pineapple and mayonnaise. Megan McArdle, &#8220;Friday Food Post: The Economics Behind Grandma&#8217;s Tuna Casseroles&#8221;, Bloomberg View, 2015-10-30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,74,66,7,41,13],"tags":[1063,311],"class_list":["post-34632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-health-science","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1950s","tag-1960s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-90A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34633,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632\/revisions\/34633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}