Nutritional Slumming: Food Whose Enjoyment Stems Not From Flavor But From Complex Mixture Of Class Connotations, Nostalgia Signals, And Packaging Semiotic

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Nutritional Slumming:
Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from complex
mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and packaging
semiotics: Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead of real
whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip topping seemed
like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in Pensacola back
in the early sixties would feed their husbands to celebrate a career
promotion.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X

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