About a hundred years ago the American diet was wonderfully varied. In meats alone there was pork, beef, lamb, mutton, chicken, turkey, deer, duck (wild and tame), rabbit (ditto), squirrel, pheasant, quail, goose (wild and tame), swan (!), pigeon, dove, and others. (Yes, some were shot by "market hunters" but that doesn't negate the statement that these were available.) Vegetables included all that we have today, but they were often locally grown and much fresher (and because they didn't have to travel thousands of miles, tasted better). Locally picked strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries -- whatever was available -- would find their way to the store.

Even banannas and pineapple were available.

But we lost a lot of this. Our meats today are beef, pork, chicken, and turkey -- at least where I am you can get lamb (no mutton that I've seen), buffalo, and if you work at it, goat. There are the usual vegetables, but the tomatoes taste like cardboard and head lettuce, well....

I dunno. I think that the Internet is doing a wonderful job of connecting the world together, but I worry about sociability.