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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2019-02-17 3:34 p.m., wrote:
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>>> The computer you used 20 years ago sucked compared to today's
>>> computers. Do you think food is any different?
>>
>> Yes, food has greatly deteriorated, along with taste expectations...
>> most people nowadays think shit tastes wonderful, their taste buds
>> have migrated to their rectum... eat enough fast food you too will
>> contract chronic TIAD.
>
> I think that some fruits and vegetables tasted better. Maybe I was spoiled
> by having a vegetable garden and ate lots of tomatoes and beans fresh from
> the garden and they had much nice flavour than the stuff we buy these
> days. Ketchup used to be thick and rich. The old ketchup commercials
> used to use the song "Anticipation" to demonstrate how thick it was. Now
> they have bottles with the dispenser on the bottom so it runs out easily
> and you don't notice how thin ans sloppy it is.
>
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>> Restaurant food was better 20 years ago... was much better 60 years
>> ago.... even your favorite Golden Arches burger was far better
>> quality way back when it cost 15¢.
>
> I don't really count McDs as a restaurant. I never liked their food. I
> think restaurants are infinitely better than they used to be. Most mom
> and pop places didn't have chefs or even good cooks. They were burger
> flippers and deep fryers. Most places had the same old dinner food,
> hamburgers, dries, onion rings, tuna salad, BLTs, westerns, (canned) soups
> and hot roast beef or turkey. The more expensive places were, at best,
> good home cooking. There are a lot more decent places these days and
> they sell much better and much more diverse foods, and the food is usually
> prepared by trained cooks.
>
>
>
>
>> Truth is when you bought a computer 20 years ago it ran for twenty
>> years. Today computers have lots more technology but you're lucky if
>> they last 2 years. I knew right away that computer longiviety was
>> going downhill fast when their steel cabinets and chasssis became
>> plastic.
>
> The real truth is that if you got a new computer 30 years ago it would be
> obsolete within two years. My first PC was an XT with a 20 meg hard drive
> that cost me $430 and made me the envy of my computer geek friends who
> were still using floppy discs to boot up with DOS. You can now get USB
> sticks with about a million times the capacity for about $20, and hard
> drives usually crashed within 2-3 years.
>
>
>> I remember flying TWA, their Tourest Class was more posh than today's
>> First Class, and air travel meals were superb
>
> True. The treatment was much better. However, the airlines are in hot
> competition and running on a very narrow profit margin. My good friend is
> a retired airline pilot and he says that the cost of running an airline
> are so high it is amazing that they don't all go broke.
>
> Air fare is cheap these days. It used to be unaffordable for most people
> now entire families fly on vacation. When I was a teen I knew a lot of
> people who would drive to Florida for a winter vacation. It would take 2-3
> days of driving each way, and that mean hotels and restaurant meals along
> the way. It's cheaper for them to fly now, and they get to spend more time
> at their destination. Most people can cope with a couple hours in the air
> without having to have a meal.

Airplanes now are buses with wings.