Tuesday, August 23, 2005

NO MORE OF THOSE FROZEN MIXED VEGGIES WITH THE LITTLE CUBE-SHAPED CARROTS: I was out at a very-high-end Japanese restaurant last night, and noticed a family with three little boys sitting a few tables away. The boys sat at the table, as quiet as exceptionally quiet mice, for upwards of two hours -- which was astonishing in itself -- but I was particularly struck by the variety of foods they were happily slurping down.

So this got me thinking. The palates of today's consumers have obviously changed since I was a kid in the 70s. Cosmo Girl eats fresh vegetables and fruit most of the time, not the canned peaches and frozen mixed vegetables I remember from my childhood dinner table. The one that really jumped out at me was edamame, which I regularly see kids chomping on with gusto every time I go out for sushi. I would have loved edamame as a kid -- I just didn't know it existed.

What other foods have become commonplace in today's world that weren't available during your childhood?

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