Gen Z are turning to very old-fashioned favourite as modern food is too hard to cook
GENERATION Z are turning to old-fashioned faves like spam — because modern food is too tricky to cook.
Classics including steak and kidney pie, tripe and liver and onions are also enjoying a resurgence.
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Young people are now turning to old fashioned favourites like Spam
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One-third of the adults under 28 polled say modern dishes are too complicated to rustle up.
Almost three in five often scoff canned Spam for convenience. One in ten even plate up spam fritters for their children.
Spam was launched in 1937 by US food processing company Hormel and became popular during World War Two.
Its main ingredients are pork shoulder and ham, and it became a part of popular culture through a Monty Python sketch which repeated its name many times — which led to it being used to refer to unsolicited emails.
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Spam was also parodied in the Python-based Spamalot musical.
The food survey, meanwhile, also found that just over two in five Gen Z parents give their kids corned beef hash.
Tripe and onions is served by 16 per cent.
Nearly one in three cook classic dishes in the air fryer because it is easier and tastier, according to the survey of 2,000 Brits.
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By contrast, eight in ten over-60s — who grew up on food like tripe — now opt for the trendy breakfast treat avocado toast.
Martin Senders of Philips, which commissioned the poll, said: 'It's great to see traditional dishes making a comeback.'
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