"If your grandma didn't eat it, it's not real food."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Michael Lobel
‪@mlobelart.bsky.social‬

Schmaltz (chicken fat), Postum, Cadbury fruit & nut bars

‪Verity Holloway‬
‪@verityholloway.bsky.social‬
· 3d

Cigarettes, chips, valium.

Photo of a smiling white man with glasses on a background of salad. Caption reads "If your grandma didn't eat it, it's not real food."
ALT
9:23 PM · Mar 22, 2026

Schmaltz (chicken fat), Postum, Cadbury fruit & nut bars

— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T01:23:03.876Z

Verity Holloway
‪@verityholloway.bsky.social‬
I keep seeing this nonsense and having a little chuckle, because my great-grandmother was forcibly taken to the workhouse and later did housekeeping for an executioner, so I imagine she wouldn't be especially impressed by a Dorito.

Text post reading: Don't each anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognise as food."
ALT
10:41 AM · Mar 22, 2026

I keep seeing this nonsense and having a little chuckle, because my great-grandmother was forcibly taken to the workhouse and later did housekeeping for an executioner, so I imagine she wouldn't be especially impressed by a Dorito.

— Verity Holloway (@verityholloway.bsky.social) 2026-03-22T14:41:38.298Z

Verity Holloway
‪@verityholloway.bsky.social‬

Cigarettes, chips, valium.

Photo of a smiling white man with glasses on a background of salad. Caption reads "If your grandma didn't eat it, it's not real food."
ALT
10:46 AM · Mar 22, 2026

Cigarettes, chips, valium.

— Verity Holloway (@verityholloway.bsky.social) 2026-03-22T14:46:33.713Z

[hlthe2b]

1. Yeah, right. My grandmother lived in a tiny midwestern town's oldest house next door to...

a little mini Dairy Queen! LOL Even after two hip replacements into her late 90s, she could still make it over there. (and no, she was a tiny tiny little lady as one might expect with severe osteoporosis as well as the OTC appetite suppressant of the 70s most here may not remember or never heard of given its name's unfortunate comparison to another similar-sounding name: Ayds candy)

So, I beg to differ.

[Wonder Why]

2. How can you say that white double-cheddar chito puffs aren't real food? Grandma was just unlucky, not smart!

[marble falls]

3. You mean from a time that a Republican President (T Roosevelt) had to propose the creation of the FDA ...

and the Pure Food Act after a socialist, Upton Sinclair, exposed the meat industry? That people in NYC were dying by the hundreds from questionable milk products each year? Those days?

Unless great grandma lived on a farm, like mine did, and never used chemicals, I'd question a lot of what some great grandmothers thought of as food.

Course one of them did grow fine Kentucky Burley Tobacco, so there is that.

[rsdsharp]

4. The smiling white man is Chef Rick Bayless, known for his Mexican restaurants in Chicago.

[mwmisses4289]

6. Considering that most of those who are grandparents or great grandparents now

were born in the 1930s to 1970's when food was becoming more convenient, I suspect most us didn't start eating "real food" until at least the 1980s.
Think wonder bread, various cereals, t.v. dinners, tang, soda pop, canned fruits and veggies, lunch meat, spam, various canned meats...the list goes on.
As we used to joke when I was kid and the latest processed food came out and was hailed as healthier and better than mother nature: Better living through chemistry!

[cksmithy]

7. My grandma, born in Minnesota, in 1884, was cooking for the ranch hands at a hopefully

near by ranch, when she was 10 years old. She was a child cooking for a bunch of men who got up early and needed food before they went on to work. She cooked and fed them when they returned. I can only hope there were other girls and woman with her. I initially didn't believe the stories I heard growing up in the 1950s, but when I got my college degree, as an adult, I, in American history class learned, it was very common for poor families in the mid west to send to their daughters off to work, out of home, to supplement their income. Her experience was literally in my textbook.

She was a great cook, compared to my mother, made everything from scratch. She passed away in 1964.. She made the best cinnamon rolls, biscuits, etc and preferred to cook on her wood stove. Her children bought her a modern stove, she didn't like it and didn't use.

My grandma didn't have a childhood. Got married and had 7 children, 6 surviving to adulthood. I don't really know if she enjoyed cooking, but she was good at it.

[mercuryblues]

8. LOL

So, tuna or salmon in a jello mold is what we should be eating?

Ah, no thanks.