Post #784000 by tikiskip on Fri, Feb 16, 2018 8:52 AM

That is true as well Mike,
Honey Mangos or Ataulfo Mangos and even Pomegranates are a few of the things we never saw growing up.

With the growing foreign born population in America we have way more exotic and international foods and spices, plus restaurants.

Man Zantigo and Taco Bell was all the Mexican restaurants we had growing up.

But less and less do we see people gardening, pickling foods, making jelly, just doing things from scratch.

And in my restaurant the supplier's would carry the cheap stuff more and more I would fight with them all the time.
they would tell me that other places would not buy the expensive stuff so I would be one
of the few places buying it so they could not offer it any more.

Schreiber cheese was one of these items, I could tell instantly it was not Schreiber when I saw other cheeses as it would melt glassy and not look good, and did not taste as good.

So A grade was out no longer available, B grade became the new A grade, and the cheap C grade was now middle of the road.

I also made every fry to order, the new guy makes a bunch and will do that refry thing to heat them after sitting for some time over the hot oil.
Not to mention he buys a cheaper brand of fry.
Heck my Mom used to make our fry's from potato's in the restaurant,PLUS we used to fry them in Lard and not veg oil, Damn a fry in lard is really good.

So you can see how far we have slipped from the best way in say 40 years time on just one item the French fry.

But if you are not a good cook and you never had good food really you get used to that Taco Bell can cheese and think that is good food.