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minus-squarehopesdead@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days agoBack in my day, we just discussed what wrote in The Jungle. They didn’t have us read it.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoI didn’t learn until well into adulthood that food safety wasn’t actually the message Upton Sinclair was trying to get across.
minus-squareℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoNor I. I learned about it in school but I didn’t read it until my honeymoon. I loved it, of course.
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 days agoI’m losing my mind picturing someone bringing the worst beach read I can imagine to couple’s massages and reading it before bed.
minus-squareℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoso the Cold War was over, is what you’re saying
Back in my day, we just discussed what wrote in The Jungle. They didn’t have us read it.
Probably because of all the socialism.
I didn’t learn until well into adulthood that food safety wasn’t actually the message Upton Sinclair was trying to get across.
Nor I. I learned about it in school but I didn’t read it until my honeymoon. I loved it, of course.
I’m losing my mind picturing someone bringing the worst beach read I can imagine to couple’s massages and reading it before bed.
This was early 2000s.
so the Cold War was over, is what you’re saying