Hippie culture changed the world in so many ways but....

Honkridge

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What was their contribution to the world of food? All the Fabulous Furry Freak bros. could agree on was a sack of soybeans and you never see a restaurant with a "Hippie Cuisine" sign out front. Surely there is a dish that sprang from the hippie people. Thoughts?
 
Honkridge said:
What was their contribution to the world of food? All the Fabulous Furry Freak bros. could agree on was a sack of soybeans and you never see a restaurant with a "Hippie Cuisine" sign out front. Surely there is a dish that sprang from the hippie people. Thoughts?
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The only thing I know about Hippie Food is the things I bought, and ate, at The Grateful Dead shows, or similar jam band concerts. I recall huge burritos that contained zero meat, yet were amazingly delicious, and made me feel like a million bucks. There was no gut bomb experience.

Each time, after experiencing tasty, healthy food, I’d promise myself that I would start eating better in my everyday life. Yet, I’d return to my humble day-to-day routines, and it would be the same greasy, animal protein diet that I’ve eaten my entire life. I’ll probably die relatively young with the stench of beef on my breath.
 
Vegetarian food mostly, with an eye toward ethnic foods. That was when I fell in love with Indian food. Brown rice was a biggie, along with stuff like burritos. Oddly enough, most of this has hit the mainstream now.
 
Did the mods, punks, Beats, New Wavers, flappers, or greasers contribute to food culture? Aside from avocado toast, I'm not sure I can think of an example of a pop culture group introducing a good to the mainstream.
 
Chicken Man said:
Did the mods, punks, Beats, New Wavers, flappers, or greasers contribute to food culture? Aside from avocado toast, I'm not sure I can think of an example of a pop culture group introducing a good to the mainstream.
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Goths and curry have been weirdly linked in UK culture. At least anecdotally from old anglophiiles I knew and have read stuff by who thought late night curry was something particularly goth—likely because that wasn’t a thing in the US.

And the original Punk zine which helped solidify the term had this whole thing with hamburgers.

Not to mention straight edge and the whole abstinence from booze/drugs + veganism thing.

And I first learned about the existence of pie and mash shops and jellied eels from reading about mods.

Plus there the David Bowie glam rock diet or milk, hot peppers, and cocaine.
 
All I remember from my hippie days in 10 yrs behind the times Alabama in 1975 was all terrible.
Granola that tasted like low quality horse feed, freeze dried noodle & veg backpacking crap, and tofu that tasted like unseasoned pencil erasers.
But I guess thats a natural reaction of someone raised on homegrown beef and fresh garden vegetables.
Hell Mom never even served rice, Dad wouldn't have it, said it reminded him of the Navy and Japan. We were 100% Scots-Irish tater people.
To this day I'll do a veggie burrito with some hot sauce if I have to, but thats about it.
 
Peen Simmons said:
Goths and curry have been weirdly linked in UK culture. At least anecdotally from old anglophiiles I knew and have read stuff by who thought late night curry was something particularly goth—likely because that wasn’t a thing in the US.

And the original Punk zine which helped solidify the term had this whole thing with hamburgers.

Not to mention straight edge and the whole abstinence from booze/drugs + veganism thing.

And I first learned about the existence of pie and mash shops and jellied eels from reading about mods.

Plus there the David Bowie glam rock diet or milk, hot peppers, and cocaine.
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By those measures, the yuppies contributed sushi to the popular culture. And I don't think a zine in the mid 70s broke the news on burgers in America.
 
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