The elderly group at the Refuge Center hadn't expected that a simple meal could evoke such nostalgia among the many survivors in the camp.
They couldn't understand why the small pieces of nuts in the fried dough were causing such a commotion.
It wasn't very different from the proverb "Why not eat minced meat?" Although they too ate fried dough, theirs was not the same as what the average survivor ate.
The average survivor's compressed food brick used for fried dough contained less than thirty percent pure grain, with the rest being edible plant tubers, animal bone powder, and a very small amount of seasoning (i.e., salt), all mixed and compressed together.
Whereas, the compressed food bricks used by the elderly for their fried dough consisted of eighty percent pure grain powder, with the rest containing minced meat, crushed nuts, dehydrated vegetables, and various spices and seasonings.
