>>17787320The good stuff was taken up first (other good examples are cocoa for chocolate and coffee) so people with connections (uncle working in customs or brother as important politician) got them first. The ruling psychopaths then moved to convince the poor plebians that replacements were good(chicory coffee instead of real coffee, or rose jam instead of blueberry because it was cheaper and easier to produce in large amounts). You then had plebian average citizens who were ignorant scum, accepting their mediocre conditions of life. Soup made out of stale bread? Delicious! Chicory coffee instead of real coffee! Sure, that’s the best!
It’s all a lesson of mediocre people with no aspirations accepting their pathetic life situation in order to…well…cope.
