Reading the comments, I noticed that very strange people appear there from time to time. These strange people with some amazing contempt for thrift, zeal, economy, considering this the lot of those who are contemptuously called "rogue".
For them, judging by what they write, it is quite normal to throw out the food, they say, "Achetakova is not spoiled." And when you answer them that yes, eating spoiled is not worth making purchases taking into account the family's appetite and realizing what will be eaten and what will not, you get a bunch of negativity in response. They say that these are all remnants of the "scoop", of the time when there was little food, and people were poor.
I don’t know where the myth came from that the respect for food came from the USSR. In fact, it has always existed. And in that very pre-revolutionary Russia, by the way, too. The fact that before the revolution rivers of milk flowed between the jelly banks, and the tables were laden with food from everyone in a row is a fairy tale. Yes, the privileged part of society didn’t eat, but forgive me, it was too much. Here are just the privileged part of society as a percentage of the rest was very small... And thus "the rest" got crumbs.
“Bread is the head of everything,” “It's not tasty without salt, it's not satisfying without bread” - this was not invented in the USSR. It was passed down from century to century, simply because from century to century it was - at least there is bread, it's good.
Where did I start all this? And I came across a very funny publication.
And something tells me, all those who write contemptuous comments about economizing rogues - they belong to the sect of adherents of this theory. That before there was no reverence for bread (as for one of the products).
But why didn't it exist? To begin with, literature was an occupation exclusively for that privileged part of society that did not think about where the bread came from. And not only bread, but any other products. This category did not create anything, it, so to speak, parasitized on the labor of those for whom a piece of bread was a joy, literally on slave labor (the abolition of serfdom happened in 1861, and this abolition turned out to be another way to squeeze the latter out of the peasants).
But bread as a symbol of survival, which is treated with frugality, was present in the world literature... Offhand - the line of bread as resource can be traced in Zola's novel "Germinal" (a puff roll in the house of the Gregoire rentier, Etienne Lantier's conversation with a miner "if only bread was ").
And a careful attitude to food - not only to bread! - is present all over the world. But here, for some reason, it is considered a boast to despise frugality.
Only as for me, it characterizes those who fall into the category aptly characterized by the Russian people by the phrase "from rags to riches"