Video: Snack: who was she? How did we get to scones and cupcakes? How do we get out?
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
There was a period of our life when we were happy. We didn't have to think about how to get to the end of the month, or worry about traffic on the ring road. We didn't have to pay attention to the line, we didn't have to see the slow but inexorable progress of our wrinkles. That was when we were children and we had a snack in front of the TV.
We did it with the lightness of our under 20 kilos. Without feeling the conscience gripping us with every bite.
But who was she? The snack, the undisputed queen of blue afternoons, an indispensable break between math and geography homework, or a magical tonic to be interspersed with the games of a holiday afternoon …
In our memories there is no crisis. And the snack remains the pink apostrophe between the words Bim bum bam.
As in everything of a certain value, however, there were those who did not know how to make it. Perhaps because he allowed himself too often tegolini and swivels, more rarely the healthy "bread and …" - which in any way you decline it certainly made good blood.
Or, because the ammerigani arrived to defile even the half-past four o'clock break. Because not everyone has known how to cultivate the sacrosanct difference between "snack" and "snack". And go for Snickers instead of bread with oil, donuts and brownies instead of bread and jam, muffins overflowing with peanut butter instead of the cake made by mom. We gorged ourselves with irresistible advertisements, and tried to do how cool kids on TV (how blond they were! They exuded cleanliness, obedience and good intentions).
Here are the puppies (10 bites 10), the speedypizze and the phalanx of snacks - shouldn't the diminutive lead us to suspect their nutritional deficiency? - Mulino / Kinder license plate.
Sheep, brioss, flutes, plum cakes, camille, tarts, saccottini (some of these marketing champions actually come from the 70s, amazement). They were the prizes after sport, after the good grade in school, the promises made in a moment of consumerist liberality from upright parents.
For the series it was better when it was worse, but there are, and always have been, good snacks, those of slow, ethical and geo-localized children already in elementary school. Pasta with healthy regional snacks such as Modenese crescentina with fruit jam, Tuscan fettunta, bread with butter and anchovies, bread and tomato, bread, wine and sugar, Ligurian savory pies, Apulian bruschetta with tomato and olive oil olive, the pastin del Bellunese (minced meat with spices), the Venetian fugassa, or even the Piedmontese snack "sinoira", a sort of aperitif with a more persuasive name, capable of unleashing the pantry beyond any imagination …
Readers, now the burden of taking sides on one side or the other is up to you: which side are you on? Have you (been) fundamentalists and dissaporians of the first hour, from Altamura bread and PDO oil, or have you experienced the sick and happy thrill of an industrial snack? And now? Scones and cupcakes?
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