Interesting point you make about US customer food selection. Last summer
we had guests from the States. We live on Vancouver Island, which they
think of as very "rustic", actually it's almost suburban. They were
uncomfortable eating potatoes unpeeled that we had just dug out of the
"dirt". They didn't know how to peel and use fresh garlic out of the
garden, they always buy it in a glass or tin. They passed up fresh
mushrooms ("dirty") and bought them in tins. Although they enjoyed the
flavours of our homegrown barbecued chicken, they couldn't imagine seeing
them killing and dressed (wonder what they would think if they saw the
slaughter factory where their clean supermarket chicken is killed?). They
thought it quaintly Canadian that our supermarket produce is all in bulk
and not wrapped in plastic so you can't touch it. (they felt the
pre-wrapped stuff is cleaner) Imagine the gap between the American
attitudes toward food and that of the Europeans. Just look at what is
happening right now, the Americans, with we Canadians cheering them on, are
trying to force the Europeans to inject their dairy cows with rBST, trying
to force them to buy beef grown with the help of synthetic sex hormones and
antibiotic laced grains, not to mention trying to induce them to grow and
eat genetically modified foods. The Americans seem to like to keep an
arm's length from their food sources, maybe they would be smart to stay a
lot further than that.
Don Maroc
Vancouver Island, Canada
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