Why did people used to overcook vegetables?

Exapno_Mapcase November 13, 2007, 10:13pm 3

Did you live through the 1950s? People everywhere in the U.S., including restaurants, used to overcook vegetables.

This was a culinary “tradition” inherited from England, but I’m not sure why they did it.

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