Most commonly people of my generation are identified as “Baby Boomers”. But perhaps it is time to get over locating the focal point of our identity in the decade of our birth.
Those of us born between 1946 and 1964 might want to consider finding a way to rebrand ourselves….
For the rest of this post see: http://blogs.timescolonist.com/2012/07/29/food-boomers/
In A Spacious Place 
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July 29, 2012 at 10:29 am
lindsay
It seems to me it’s not only 50-somethings who are concerned about what they eat. My rugby-playing teenage son has decided to go vegetarian because he wants to be healthy. Having a meat-eating, non-legume-liking carnivore for a mother means he is now re-educating his mother on how to prepare protein-rich and vegetable-rich meals. It’s a challenge for sure! Boy! The things we do for our children! 🙂
July 29, 2012 at 10:40 am
lindsay
P.S if anyone has any quick and easy foolproof recipes for protein-rich vegetarian meals, I’d be happy if you could pass them along.
Those protein shakes and processed artificial meats seem to defeat the purpose a bit, so I’m trying to find ways to avoid them if possible.
July 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm
jaqueline
I am rebranding the Boomers thus…between the Woodstock generation who were teens and young adults in the sixties, and who are the face of the Boomers…and the rest of us who were little children in the sixties. We used to have a name but it was taken from us.
The US Department of Demographics divides the boomers into 2..Boomer 1 and Boomer 2…Boomer 2 are nothing like Boomer 1 in attitude or experience, whose experience is often overlooked and yet we are lumped in with all the stereotypes of Boomers of which Boomer 1 are representative.
Boomer is a name for the use of convenience for everyone but the younger cohort… I vote that we make like Quebec and agitate to be acknowledged for having a unique and distinct culture within an artificial construct determined by everyone but ourselves.
We had BIG hair, not silky and straight; our prophet is Bono, not Bob.
My generation had aids , not ‘free love’; We had REM, not the Beatles; We had Madonna, not Joni; we had Live Aid not Woodstock..
…… we came of age in recession, not boom.
in FACT Douglas Coupland writing about generation X meant for US to have that name. ( Coupland was born in 1961).
Culturally and experientially Boomer 2 is better understood as a precursor to, if not Gen x itself, and should be included in the Post ‘Boomer’ generations than lumped in with the Woodstock generation.
In fact, Those of us born between 57 and 64, if we have any reason for a claim to fame at all it is that we are the first Post Modern Cohort.
July 31, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Tress
I just reread this and decided to speak for the older group .Born before 1930. …..how about “Oldies bur Goodies”!
August 3, 2012 at 12:07 pm
jaqueline
See it continues with this blog …..I don’t know many in my cohort who are obsessing with food the way ( pre 1957 ) Boomers
and their children are….except when it comes to the enjoyment of food….
My cohort’s food gurus looks more like Nigella Lawson(1960)…va va voom, non vegetarian , non fear of dying,cup cakes galore….we are NOT funding PBS’ live- long- and -hope- to- not -die shows…..Boomer 1 are totally blind to Boomer 2 to not even notice that the mid to late forties to early 50 somethings are not exactly seeing themselves that way.
The more recent distinguishing feature is that Boomer 1 are exempt from the new retirement age; Boomer 2 is not…it starts with us baby…the first post war cohort to come of age in recession and the first cohort to have to work longer. Interesting how we are recognised as seperate when it comes to that.