“U.S. eating habits decried by visitors.
Although the average American is eating bountifully, some French visitors find his sense of taste and eating habits wanting. Constantin Francois de Chasseboef, Count of Volney, has decried the amount of lard, butter, salt pork, greasy puddings, coffee, and tea Americans consume. And Francois Jean Marquis de Chastellux, in his “Travels in North America”, says days pass “in heaping indigestions upon one another,” noting that Americans’ consumption of spirits completes “the ruin of the nervous system”.
This was written in 1807!
Back then great tasting poor quality food was far less available than today.
I do note they had bacon though!
Glad to be here, Larry. Appreciate you, too, my friend. Let’s fence!
P.S. The pie looks delicious.