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Originally Posted by artillery77
But I have a different question. Before fast food, what did people eat at lunch? I mean, in those days, that's even before microwaves. Perhaps fridges at work weren't common either. I'm genuinely curious as to how lunch was had/made/brought. Can anyone shed some light on the good old days?
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Most people brought home-cooked or home-prepared food from home. No refrigeration was needed for those four or five hours. Moreover (this hasn't been mentioned yet) old-school meat preparation methods were usually more sanitary than modern processing methods. Humans learned thousands of years ago how to prepare food to last safely for that short amount of time.
That's especially true, for instance, with chicken. Chickens were slaughtered back then in ways that had been learned thousands of years ago to prevent contamination of the edible meat by the entrails. Modern chicken processing methods totally ignore that, and actually bathe the edible meat in entrail-contaminated water in the interest of speed and high-volume. That's why we have to be more careful with store-bought chicken today more than we did 50 years ago.
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