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    Ravenous: What foods do you miss the most?

    Nostalgia for the years of abundance...

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    Remember when you could walk into a Supermarket and get pretty much anything you wanted to eat, any time of the year? Now that our supply networks are starting to fall apart, and the extreme weather patterns see some produce out of stock for weeks to months at a time - what do you miss being able to eat all the time?

    Hate to be a cultural stereotype, but - for me - even the greatest \\\"nut\\\" alternative can\\\'t replace a Sunday pub roast. *sigh*

    Popcorn! The brazilian government has replaced a lot of corn fields with soy and all sorts of plants to produce biofuel. Anything made of corn is expensive, and the imported corn derivates are even more expensive and rare. They don\\\'t even sell popcorn at the movies, which was almost a tradition years ago.

    I miss avocados. Pouring a bit of salt, black pepper, and some olive oil on them and eating them for lunch. Now with the distraught state of Mexico, it\\\'s practically impossible to have an avocado - save for growing them yourself. But even then, the ever changing climate makes it quite difficult for even the most experienced farmer to grow the fruit.

    Bananas. Somehow I felt so rich living in Los Angeles, eating a good organic banana every morning, sometimes with the most amazing cashew-macadamia nut butter. We\\\'re getting pretty good at making the nut butter but we cannot grow those bananas like they could in Central America....before the chemicals took the taste away. I\\\'m talking about a pre-2K banana, not those GMO flavorless props they tried to peddle at the grocery stores for the last decade or so.

    Steak. Actually, beef full stop. Kinda had to turn veggie by necessity out here but dang... I get some big hankerings for a home-made beef burger sometimes. My sister runs some kind of farm, maybe she\\\'s got some cattle - if I ever go back to the UK I\\\'ll see if she can\\\'t rustle me something up.

    Remember the homemade ice cream made with real milk? That\\\'s what I miss. The new \\\"ice cream\\\" their trying to sell is just wrong. Chemically made cream just looks gross.

    Berries. Living in LA was great. We used to get a lot of pretty much everything. But now, you can hardly find any good berries, and those that are there have pesticides practically dripping off them. Although, amoration is right too. Bananas were nice before all the chemical crap.

    Much like Scott_Mason, I miss eating beef. Bad for the environment, but so very tasty. Besides that, I miss having flexibility more than anything else. Whatever passing fancy you might develop, it was there in the supermarket, or at least at some sort of specialty store. Nowadays it\\\'s all much more dicey - can\\\'t tell you how many hours I\\\'ve spent trying to get some spice or ingredient for something I wanted to make only to have to ultimately just give up.

    We always tended to eat the way we do now (legumes, grains, vegetables, fruits, etc) so what I miss are the decadent comfort foods of my youth - macaroni and cheese, layer cake, turtle sundaes, 7 layer salads, stuff like that. Buffet tables, really. Yum Yum.

    Coffee (I can still get it but it is more of a luxury now). I remember when people made jokes about there being two coffee shops right across the street from each other. Also tropical fruits like mango and starfruit.

    I miss coca-cola. This item would be a real treat if found amongst the ruins of an old gas-station that no longer has a function with the oil shortages.

    Chocolate. Some nights I dream about the REAL chocolate you could buy for a few coins. It was a little pocket luxury, a small morsel of heaven. It\\\'s sad that my kids won\\\'t know what they\\\'re missing; the synthetic stuff just isn\\\'t the same. Shame that chocolate production turned out to be so vulnerable.

    Coffee and chocolate. We manage to grow tea in one of the greenhouses but it doesn\\\'t fulfill that craving. It is hard thinking back on all we had.

    Bananas. You guys probably don\\\'t even remember bananas now- not like the ones we used to know. Bananas version 2.0 before the blight rendered them commercially extinct. But now you can\\\'t even get the inferior gentically enginerred versions unledd you live where a banana \\\"tree\\\" can grow.

    Lemons. Oh my do I miss lemons. We\\\'ve tried and tried to grow a tree but we just don\\\'t have the light for it and it seems like a huge frivolity to use greenhouse space for them. I can\\\'t even yse the vitamin c argument because we live in blueberry country. Oh how I miss lemons.

    Rooibois Tea The famous Red Tea from South Africa, a family staple has been erradicted with the proliferation of Jothropa trees for biodiesel production in South Africa

    Meat from a 4 legged creature. We have chickens , goats and a cow, But the milk production from the goats and cow is much more valuable than using them for meat.

    Mussels - now tha the oceans are a wreck - I miss mussels in white wine - I miss real wine too - the homebrew is getting better and better but oh a good Shiraz..

    By goth I miss my green tea. We tried and tried but it just won\\\'t grow in this climate.

    i miss coffee.. the taste of a could latte machioto, and the fruits in the wintertime and the possibility to eat when you like not when you get it.

    Bananas. Living in Northern Europe means I can't get any kind of banana. That's doubly bad if you suffer of allergies for most of the local produce like apples and nuts. Not that those are abundant, but we're part of a food-sharing collective that gives us some access. Oh well, more for the rest of my family. I also miss Rooibos tea. Until a couple years ago I drank it almost exclusively. Now I have to make do with inferior local substitues like rose hip. But at least we still have water to drink.

    I would agree with PonyXpress on the cheese. Being French that's not very surprising but I really miss the fondue. The taste of the 5 varieties of cheese mixed with withe wine was so much deep. I remember we played a game with my sister, we were trying to remember when the cheese taste was leaving our mouth. I think feelings like taste refers to memories.

    Chocolate covered espresso beans. Those were a real luxury, and one 2 of those i could work into the night easily. It's a small bit of withdrawal, but damn could I be more productive with those.

    That is really easy. Circus Animal Cookies and Frosted Oatmeal Cookies by Mother's. In October of 2008 the company filed for bankruptcy and abruptly shut down. As I was an MBA student at the time, the financial issues caused by rising material costs and low liquidity caught my eye as a potential topic for a project. Mostly, I was just sad they would stop making those two products. By the time I got out to do some shopping, every store I went to (and called) were already out of the circus animal cookies. Man, those things were good.

    chocolate! We have some carobe things in production, but it is not anything like the real thing!

    Beignets. I remember going down to the French Quarter to get some of those wonderful sugary doughnuts, but now...I'm so afraid to even LEAVE my house; between looters and trying to avoid getting ReDS, I'll never eat another. There really isn't anybody around who knows how to make them anymore, either. It's a pity

    Tortillas, just plain good old tortillas. I can remember when they were only a couple of bucks for a dozen, now, a luxury if you can actually find them. With biofuels consuming the majority of the corn crop and the problems with contaiminated mexican cornflour, it's hard to find decent tortillas anymore without paying prices that ten years would seem insane.

    Most likely chocolate.It has so many uses and is so many of the desserts and treats we eat now its gonna be hard to live without it.

    The caffeinated couple: coffee and chocolate. Also, fish. Not super-picky, as long as it's red-fleshed, and actually once swam in an ocean. Add a bit of lemon and a lot of garlic, and my potatoes would no longer be so very very lonely.

    I miss a good old roast chicken with a portion of chips, chickens and many other animals are being protected for the future. *frown*

    chocolate, coffee, waffles, and cherries! Definately cherries.

    Coffee. Definitely coffee. A coworker's family grows coffee on the side of a volcano in Columbia, but now importing it is so expensive, one might as well give up one's first-born to pay for a decent cup.

    Pineapple. I know that import of tropical foods is regulated under European Act of Carbon Emission because of the excess CO2 in the air; and that rising oil prices make transport more expensive by the day, but I still miss it. :(




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