I have to agree with the notion food quality in the markets is shite compared to pre-pandemic levels.
I have to wonder about the olden days when we ate foods with lard and real butter and such. Was it really so deadly compared to the frankenfood sold today with its fake flavouring and hormones and such?
Basics that aren't adulterated are out of my price range, the stuff sold at the "Wholefoods" markets might be all free-range fair-trade gluton-free organic but hideously expensive and often so poor that it would have been culled and chucked in the hog-trough twenty years ago, not sent to market.
Many things I used to buy during the family shop aren't in the store anymore, too. Rarely do we come home with salmon, for example, I have to buy Colmans mustard off Amazon now, even Pop-tarts have noticeably less jelly filling (if that was even possible) and more frosted sugar shite on top from when my son went off to uni (and we stopped buying them) last fall until he returned for summer break and we started buying them again.
They say inflation is being reigned in, but the quality of an item or even its availability isn't figured into the cost of a loaf of bread last year versus this.
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