Food fad not like the good old days

Cooking, chefs and fine food have become the 21st century fad via the media, newspapers, magazines and television.

There is a great variety of food these days but you cannot beat the taste of the food in the good old days.

As kids in the 40s, we ate a lot of wild food, home grown fruit and vegetables, dairy milk, cream and meat, mostly rabbits and fish.

Lamb and beef were too expensive,

Chicken, we had at Christmas, raised in the backyard.

It was lean and delicious, not like today's hormone force-fed fat.

As children, we ate wild fruit, sour grass, paspalum stalks, plum puddings (grass seeds), roasted potatoes and fish and chips on Fridays.

We roamed and played barefoot and were care free.

Our melons had seeds.

Watermelons with seeds were juicy with a crumbly cake like texture, not like today's anaemic and tasteless card board.

Yes, truly the good old days.

Letter, 10 Apr 2012

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy