Olyve, I think we grew up during the age of mediocrity.
Those post war years when cheap white bread replaced home made, when canned beans replaced homegrown and the TV Dinner was invented. During those years America lost touch with where food came from and lost the (unpleasant) knack for wringing a chicken's neck, cleaning a fish, or slaughtering a hog.
We became squeamish about food and taught our children to be even more squeamish. Far too many have learned to live only on packaged and processed food and are completely removed from the actual preparation of food as our grandparents knew it.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...