So how can recreating a recipe dimly remembered from middle school family and consumer science class equate to a survival skill? Spiers, who hosts the food history podcast Smart Mouth and publishes its companion newsletter, says it's all about being frugal. While bananas themselves are among the cheapest of fruits, banana bread is actually "a dish that exists to re-purpose leftovers," (since everyone knows it's best if you make it with over-ripe, mushy bananas), and that making such good use of produce past its prime actually does make us feel all gung-ho and survival-y.
As Spiers told Mashed, "I think a lot of people are thinking about those really basic survival skills for the first time in their lives, and it's because we went to the supermarket and saw all the empty aisles, and our animal instincts kicked in." She notes that food shortages haven't really been a thing in mainstream US society since WWII, so most of us had never before experienced stripped-bare supermarket shelves.
Suddenly, ancient family stories of what great-grandma went through in the Great Depression didn't seem quite so irrelevant, and boomers, Gen-Xers, and millennials (and even a few zoomers) alike were scrambling to play catch-up, "learning things, tips and tricks, that were considered basic household management before the 1950s." Plus, as she notes, it's always good to start with something that's practically a guaranteed success, since "as baking goes, [banana bread is] incredibly easy."
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