Hippie culture changed the world in so many ways but....
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jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
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.
Chicken Man
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Granola, famously.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
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Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
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.
Chicken Man
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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.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
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.
Does anyone remember munchybox?
Pine Apple Slim
Armchair Expert
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.
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.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I could go for some of that. If I want good vegetarian food it’s a 20+ minute drive to a desi Indian food truck two towns away.
Chicken Man
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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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Bob411
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Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Yuppies did kind of change the American food world—in part by making sushi and similar a thing. I mean, we’re about the same age and both from the Midwest. You remember what food was like in 1992, right? Like what counted as a salad in 1988 vs what you can put in a salad today. Hell, just think about going out to an Italian restaurant when you were in junior high vs. all the Tuscan-inspired business that is going out for Italian food today. Same with Mexican or Chinese food. And there’s definitely parallel and intertwining cultural stuff making that possible. So yeah, yuppies changed food.
Hell, the reason that ramen restaurants are popping up all across America now certainly has something to do with Anime obsessed weebs (you see it in the decor and ads and whatnot). I mean, I remember 20 years ago or so when there were a few spots doing ramen for Japanese expats and food weirdos, but it was not a thing in the states. Dave Chang of Momofuku has said much the same thing and is famous because of his noodle bar.
But now you can get a reasonable approximation of ramen in fucking Kankakee. And you don’t get there without dorks making a personality out of cultural appropriation and tentacle porn.
Who invented a food vs. who gave various foods a cultural push and the various associations are different discussions.
Chicken Man
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This is the part I'm stuck on.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
"Who invented a food vs. who gave various foods a cultural push and the various associations are different discussions."
Well then, as a stoner in the late 70s and all the 80s, I think I am personally responsible for all the Mexican restaurants.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
My mom would like to thank you for all the tacos and burritos I ate between the ages of 12 and 18. It saved her from lots of cooking so she had time to finish her master’s.