“Muh Soviet in a supermarket” story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald’s in the USSR, so they’re feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.

Link You can’t see this through Hexbear because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism chefs-kiss

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    context for the Supermarket

    The great American supermarket lie

    author of “Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race”

    So while middle-class consumers enjoyed a bounty of cheap and convenient food, small farmers, farmworkers, low-income consumers and supermarket employees suffered to make it all possible. Instead of embodying the supposedly inherent superiority of capitalism, the supermarket demonstrated how it produced winners and losers.