Let's talk about the diet of a Soviet person. They say he was very bad. I recently came across another article, and so, the author illustrated the "poor" diet of a Soviet person with a picture from the "children's propaganda book" Native Speech "". The author is undoubtedly very smart, I am far from him, I always thought that "Rodnaya Rech" was a textbook, but not a propaganda book for children.
If you find it funny or if you don’t believe that such a thing can be written in your right mind and firm memory, then take a look.
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Reading all this, I wondered - is the diet of a modern Russian so different from the diet of a Soviet person? Breakfast porridge is a great start to the day. I don't know about you, but I often cook it, it's simple, tasty, satisfying, healthy. Tea and cake are both okay if you're not on a diet.
I do not know of a single family in which they serve complex dishes for breakfast, and even three changes.
Lunch is more interesting. More often than not, at home (I suspect that many have) not even two dishes for lunch, but one. Either the so-called "second" (without the first - just hot), or - just soup. And soups, you know, in general, almost everything can be attributed to complex dishes - you cook them, try them, comrade critic.
Even so that "plaques" of fat begin to float on the chicken broth, you have to try. Otherwise, scraps of foam will float there. Well, by the way - many people even like the golden eyes of fat in the broth.
Now dinner... Damn, I just now realized that I often have lunch combined with dinner. Or rather, so - I don't see lunch, because I work, and dinner... Yes, sometimes there are scrambled eggs.
If we talk about a set of products, basic, so to speak, then it has not changed much. Yes, the diet includes exotic fruits. But something tells - they appeared sooner or later even without a “change of regime” - if only because of the development of transport systems. Yes, we learned to call pasta pasta and you can buy gourmet varieties in the store. Only many people still eat the simplest pasta. The vegetables are all the same as in my childhood. Milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, cereals, chicken or meat, sometimes fish.
Oils? Ok, olive and many other names appeared. But tell me honestly, how many people use them?
I see what people buy in stores, and I don't notice much difference in diets. Just as the majority didn’t have oysters on the table every day (and there will not be, let's face it, there are oysters every day far from the coast - it’s unrealistic).
As for the absence of complex dishes (I have no idea what the author means by this), their presence on the table depends on the availability
a) time and
b) desire to cook.
Always. Cutlet - and that can be a complex dish, and stuffed pumpkin, and soup... And even mashed potatoes.
Tell me honestly, the diet has changed a lot over the past thirty years (I will not take the interval anymore, judging by metric, most of the readers are my peers and a little older, so we all remember this period well).
If it has changed, in which direction? What products, previously unfamiliar, are included in it on an ongoing basis?