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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 21:26:40 JST Mrs Cloudy

   I'm seeing the "let's cook and preserve food and make do and mend like our Grannies used to" narrative building momentum again without any enquiry about why things changed in the first place.
   No time, not inclined.

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     Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (russellt@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 01:28:29 JST Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @CloudyMrs

     But no additives either!

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 01:40:56 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     @russellt what caused the shift away from home cooking and preserving, do you think? A love of additives, or something else?

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     Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (russellt@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 09:00:27 JST Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @CloudyMrs Time pressures from longer commutes, no-one at home to do the meal prep as more (mostly) women entered the full-time job market. The adoption of US-style supermarkets and their packaging, availability of ding-dinners, etc.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 21:38:31 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     @russellt since none of the points you rightly identified have changed, I'm not sure how effective the efforts to guilt (mostly women) into doing more housework are likely to be. If, on the other hand, it's part of the wider right wing effort to get more women back into the kitchen and away from the workplace, it might work.