You speak for everyone? How do you know what food plans others have for the future?

Barefoot: Well maybe the bananas

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My bad. Typo. It should have read "Multiple sources say about 30 years since 1900."

I corrected my original post, but wanted to reply here to own up to my mistake. Good catch, VPL.

i believe some members might be interested in hearing in more detail those meals you enjoyed in other countries

Did you play double or sigle deck pinochle?

bocce was serious exercise in my mother back yard

We did all three also

That's a great idea. I, for one would.

Okay, thanks for correcting it. :eclipsee_gold_cup:

Now, to continue this line of thought: From my reading, a lot of the gain in lifespan was due to reducing infant mortality. And, like you said, there were other reasons.

Where I find a problem is with the quality of life in the last several years of a person's life. Multiple cancer operations, radiation, chemotherapy, heart bypass, kidney dialysis, and many other procedures too numerous to mention. These procedures keep people alive but say nothing about the quality of life.

Some diabetics have to get their feet cut off because of gangrene. They live longer but where's the quality of life?

It has been predicted that there will be millions of people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia in the near future. They will live on for years with very little quality of life.

Since an increase of 30 years would put the average lifespan in 1900 somewhere in the 40's (roughly), I'd say we have gained a lot of good years with some pretty good quality of life since then.

Another wonderful time around the table that we started when our granddaughter was four. She invited her friends from nursery school to a grown up "tea" and they all dressed in their prettiest and her mother and I used the pretty dishes and baked and cooked grown up fancy watercress sandwiches and lovely tea cakes. They brought their mothers and we had a lovely tea party. That continued until the fourth grade

When our granddaughter was in high school and all through college we prepared a sit down dinner party for her and her friends at Christmas time with a grown up menu and we served them and cleaned up after. They exchanged Christmas gifts and went caroling in our neighborhood. We had some vegetarian dishes for two girls who didn't eat meat but the typical faire for the rest of the twenty or so

It was a pleasure to watch them grow up and a joy to see them enjoy the meals we prepared for them

So you choose to ignore the fact that less babies are dying? Yes, it's good news for the babies that didn't die. They certainly will get a lot more years of life. Good for them.

But more babies staying alive won't help me or you to have a healthy old age.

I had some relatives born in the late 1800s who lived beyond the current lifespan. So I know that old age wasn't just invented.

My apologies to those of you sticking to the topic and enjoying a very nice thread. I allowed myself to be sucked in to the off-topic discussion. I'm sorry, and it won't happen again.

I was referring to years ago when I was stationed in Japan and Korea both. After getting to know our fellow civilian workers on the base and being invited to family gatherings you get to know about their favorite foods and their family recipes they have enjoyed. It was usually always multi generational gatherings. Always plenty to eat and drink.:laugh:

VillagesPL Just a gentle reminder, the thread is entitled The Pure Pleasuring Of Eating