Hmm... No Uncle Max, it was purely anecdotal. Interestingly it came from Lady Longford on Dessert Island Discs but it no longer has a listen again available. This lady was born in 1906 so maybe when she was bringing up and moving around her 8 kids in the late 1920's food would have been less homogenised with no Maccie D’s to taint the taste buds.

I guess the reason I discussed it was due my own amnosia so I had no experience to draw on and I have ruminated over the comment and discussed it with others and was interested to see if anyone could shed some light onto it and hopefully give me some tips on authentic Swiss cuisine.

Come to think of it, I can remember when Pasta was something that was kept in a glass jar to decorate the kitchen, not to be eaten. My parents still would not be venturesome enough to try other food. I once remember cooking Fajhitas at a BBQ that I invited them to and mom refused to try them on the grounds that you wouldn't get Mexican woman eating Yorkshire Pud! Geez... So probably this was more related to when each country would eat local produce and nothing else. Not relevant in todays global village way of life.