Are things that can flavor beans, right now, expensive to come by there?
How about tortillas, traditional or not? What about other stuff to mix in with beans?
It may not be traditional, but it being traditional and it being affordable are two different arguments, and the point of the OP was mocking a tradition of (apparently voluntary) bland food.
affordability and accessibility are absolutely meshed with tradition. most people are not formally trained in cooking or gardening, so tradition is what folk's expectations and imaginations are moderated by.
i wouldn't know anything outside of anglo-french cooking were it not sought out extracurricular or passed down from someone else that broke out of it
I see your point, though I have my doubts how much of it is, to this day, economic necessity in relation to different cultures elsewhere that also had economic necessities going way back but nonetheless don't stick to beans on toast or the equivalent when they no longer have to.
Are things that can flavor beans, right now, expensive to come by there?
How about tortillas, traditional or not? What about other stuff to mix in with beans?
It may not be traditional, but it being traditional and it being affordable are two different arguments, and the point of the OP was mocking a tradition of (apparently voluntary) bland food.
affordability and accessibility are absolutely meshed with tradition. most people are not formally trained in cooking or gardening, so tradition is what folk's expectations and imaginations are moderated by.
i wouldn't know anything outside of anglo-french cooking were it not sought out extracurricular or passed down from someone else that broke out of it
I see your point, though I have my doubts how much of it is, to this day, economic necessity in relation to different cultures elsewhere that also had economic necessities going way back but nonetheless don't stick to beans on toast or the equivalent when they no longer have to.