I stopped watching after a few minutes. I got sick of the narrator harping on how consumer tastes changed in favor of "more complex flavors" and "healthier, less sugary alternatives". That's an absolute load of horseshit. Consumers got lazy and stopped making their own creative deserts with good ingredients, like real butter, cream, fresh fruits, sugar rather than artificial sweeteners.
Fuck consumers, and fuck popular tastes, which are based on convenience and availability rather than any real discernment of the good, rich flavor of food.
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1.1 yearsMay 5, 2024 22:40:38 ago (+1/-0)
Pity, cause it was both interesting and a neat little flashback to the past. I will say, that I was getting rather irked too. He was basically saying that women today are too stupid, or just plain lazy, and can't hold a candle to their Mothers/Grandmothers! Also, on the subject of complex flavors, I don't think the Narrator has had some of these desserts! My mouth was watering watching this video! I mean call a spade a spade! Who has time to bake when the wife has her ass planted in-front of a computer or tablet all day! I call Bullshit too!
Glad to hear that. I grew up in a time when housewives and mothers actually DID spend a lot of time on desserts for special occasions and I was able to enjoy some of them. I have my mother's old cookbook which she received as a wedding present (it's something like 1500 pages, just enormous) and it describes desserts similar to these. They weren't all everyday desserts, and some were specifically special occasion desserts because of the complexity and time involved to make them. But at family events when everyone would bring something nice, I've enjoyed more than one pineapple upside-down cake, and they were fantastic.
This was a time when women cooked with butter, milk and cream, and real sugar, and the difference when that's done these days is remarkable. I remember doing fondue with my mom and brothers and it was great because it was a family dinner, not a night with TV dinners watching TV. The dinner with family was the event, and the food only made it better.
Think about what this "phenomenon" is saying, This isn't about the choice to make or not make complicated deserts, this is about families just giving up and surrendering to the perceived trends of the day. It's about the weakening of the ties that bind families together! I really hope there is a national backlash against this, and families start getting back to basics...
I thought the same thing about the German Chocolate cake. ! think there's less interest in baking desserts in general, but, for those that do bake, I bet lots of Moms are still out there making German Chocolate cake.
[ + ] Lost_In_The_Thinking
[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 5 points 1.1 yearsMay 5, 2024 22:31:12 ago (+5/-0)
Fuck consumers, and fuck popular tastes, which are based on convenience and availability rather than any real discernment of the good, rich flavor of food.
[ + ] iSnark
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1.1 yearsMay 5, 2024 22:40:38 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Lost_In_The_Thinking
[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 2 points 1.1 yearsMay 5, 2024 22:50:21 ago (+2/-0)
Glad to hear that. I grew up in a time when housewives and mothers actually DID spend a lot of time on desserts for special occasions and I was able to enjoy some of them. I have my mother's old cookbook which she received as a wedding present (it's something like 1500 pages, just enormous) and it describes desserts similar to these. They weren't all everyday desserts, and some were specifically special occasion desserts because of the complexity and time involved to make them. But at family events when everyone would bring something nice, I've enjoyed more than one pineapple upside-down cake, and they were fantastic.
This was a time when women cooked with butter, milk and cream, and real sugar, and the difference when that's done these days is remarkable. I remember doing fondue with my mom and brothers and it was great because it was a family dinner, not a night with TV dinners watching TV. The dinner with family was the event, and the food only made it better.
[ + ] iSnark
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[ + ] Fascinus
[ - ] Fascinus 5 points 1.1 yearsMay 5, 2024 22:08:40 ago (+5/-0)
German chocolate cake is alive and well in our family.
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