I wouldn't be surprised to find out marketing analysis *does* show that Americans just want to stuff a large wad of food in their gobs. It's efficient and effective. Just look at all those meals in a can on the grocery shelves. For some people, all that's needed for the meal is a can opener and a spoon. McDonald's is doing them a favor by at least heating it up beforehand. In England I discovered an interesting little delicacy. It was called the All Day Breakfast in a can. The common fried breakfast one got at the local greasy spoon was eggs, bacon, sausage and beans. The majority of the can's contents were baked beans, but suspended within the mess were lumps of scrambled eggs, pieces of bacon and sausage. I bought one, for my collection. It was never eaten. Later, I found a new can meal by the same company. This one as called the Full Monty and had even more goodies in the can, like scrambled eggs enrobed within gooey sausage meat! I bought one to put on display at my school's common room, I worshipped it as an icon, but someone stole it and ate it. My american classmate J. snuck one into the larder of another classmate, as a joke. Nothing ever happened. Curious and thinking he hid the can too well, J. peeped into the cupboard and discovered SIX more cans of the Full Monty. Not only had the classmate eaten the contents, but liked it and bought more! So who's idea was it to lump food together for convenience? Looks like a chicken and egg question to me. If they make it, we'll eat it. And if we'll eat it, they'll make it.
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Date: 2003-06-10 10:44 am (UTC)In England I discovered an interesting little delicacy. It was called the All Day Breakfast in a can. The common fried breakfast one got at the local greasy spoon was eggs, bacon, sausage and beans. The majority of the can's contents were baked beans, but suspended within the mess were lumps of scrambled eggs, pieces of bacon and sausage. I bought one, for my collection. It was never eaten.
Later, I found a new can meal by the same company. This one as called the Full Monty and had even more goodies in the can, like scrambled eggs enrobed within gooey sausage meat! I bought one to put on display at my school's common room, I worshipped it as an icon, but someone stole it and ate it.
My american classmate J. snuck one into the larder of another classmate, as a joke. Nothing ever happened. Curious and thinking he hid the can too well, J. peeped into the cupboard and discovered SIX more cans of the Full Monty. Not only had the classmate eaten the contents, but liked it and bought more!
So who's idea was it to lump food together for convenience? Looks like a chicken and egg question to me. If they make it, we'll eat it. And if we'll eat it, they'll make it.