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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Fwiw it's not just child catering. The trend for the parents of baby boomers was very often to just boil the shit out of vegetables, even at home. And many of those boomers would in turn keep doing that as they had kids of their own.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Roasting vegetables only became a (semi) widespread thing in the '90s. It sounds stupid but before the '80s the idea of chucking broccoli in a stove pan or oven just wasn't part of the Western home cooking canon - that was reserved for meat.

    I definitely remember that was still the norm for my GenX parents in the 2000s and they only started properly roasting vegetables on occasion in the 2010s. Though at least they'd use generous amounts of sauce so we always enjoyed our vegetables.

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