Reply #77: but among people who DO have choices

[sui generis]

who do have cars and stoves and refrigerators, choices are made that maybe have more to do with addressing cravings than addressing nutrition, and that's really habituated not just from our parents, but from our schools, schoolmates, advertising and nutritional education, and face it, habit.

You're right - it should have nothing to do with poverty or nobility or any combination or lack thereof. Mobama was addressing school age children - not necessarily a class of income or privilege, or lack thereof.

My Mom hated to cook - I was little busybody chef junior whenever my sibs wanted something besides AAFES breaded fish sticks, beans, weenies or what was that mushy canned food glop that claimed to be generic "japanese" that you spread over minute rice and served with dry sesame noodles? **shudder** I still have PTSD from that.

:P

Not mentioned, is that as a military brat I got to do the grocery shopping on the way home once a week, and my parents gave me their liquor and cig ration cards to pick up both for them - so I got to make the produce choices more often than my Mom or Dad, with some liquor and butts thrown in to keep everyone happy.