http://www.foodinfo.org.nz/our-food-is-cheap-%e2%80%93-but-don%e2%80%99t-expect-us-to-accept-it/ Food and nutrition blog Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 http://www.foodinfo.org.nz/our-food-is-cheap-%e2%80%93-but-don%e2%80%99t-expect-us-to-accept-it/comment-page-1/#comment-510 sophie gray Fri, 06 May 2011 02:43:42 +0000 http://www.foodinfo.org.nz/?p=222#comment-510 Along with increased spending options, people also seem to consider it their birthright to have the best quality of food regardless of their level of income.
A humble entry level office worker doesn’t expect to afford the same car, or address or holiday destitination as their wealthier employer but they do seem to expect to eat the same food, including premium cuts of meat and whatever else they fancy from the well stocked shelves of the supermarkets. This is a wonderfully egalatarian ideal but is inordinately expensive. And their parents in all likelyhood, ate according to their income and understood without need for explanation that a leg of lamb was for special meals and steak a treat. Less expensive doesnt need to mean less tasty or nourishing, it means less expensive.
We frequently hear people bemoaning the fact that they can no longer afford a leg of Lamb and yet in a recent converstation with a foodie in her 80′s I was told they never ate lamb when raising their family 60 years ago – why? too expensive, only rich folks at lamb, everyone else had mutton, bought cheap and cooked well.

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