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Originally posted by Classicvette63
Isn't it strange how the older generations ate stuff that today would be considered a no-no (everything cooked in gobs of lard, etc.) yet most of them weren't heavy. My mom's side is italian. Big ol' fat sausages, mountains of spaghetti and lasagna with meatballs in real gravy the size of your fist were the order of the day. Looking at pictures of my grandparents and great grandparents, there wasn't a heavy one in the bunch.
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You know why tehy were all thin?? it's because they didn't have the Money to buy large amounts of the things they ate.
People ate bread and fillers (carbs) back then because they didn't have the $$$ to buy extra meat. They ate things fried in lard because Lard was CHEAP. The bread and butter and jelly (if you were luck) was on the table to fill you up after the real food was gone and you were still hungry. People ate spaghetti because it was cheap and filled you up and it didn't have 2 pounds of ground beef in it. It had a little meat to flavor the sauce and that was it. You get the drift
Bottom line is people ate what they could afford, now people have the $$$ to afford everything the want to eat and then some....
Just Super Size it.....