When tinned foods first became widely available in the second half of the 19th century, they were seen as a triumph of wholesomeness over the often adulterated, infested and rotten "fresh" food of the day.The reciprocal relationship between food and history seems obvious now, but when Reay Tannahill published a book on the subject in 1973, she found she was first in the field.
Indeed, David Cameron partly owed his election as party leader in 2005 to his air of polite, ruddy-cheeked wholesomeness; a repudiation of the snobby, sleazy past.
He documents their military test-pilot backgrounds, their all-American wholesomeness, their intelligence (Mr Aldrin had a doctorate from MIT)—and their self-serving egos.
That is rarely true of alternative treatments, which rely on a mixture of appeals to tradition and to the "natural" wholesomeness of their products to reassure consumers.
Disney's DNA is American wholesomeness.
Her gum cracking and good-natured wholesomeness typified 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 (both 1933), while her stately beauty and sophisticated charm fueled the on-screen chemistry with Astaire in their films.
Containing many of the classic Peanuts sight gags—such as Snoopy's dancing and Lucy's pulling a football away right before Charlie Brown tries to kick it the film captures an era in time in which entertainment's main message for children was one of wholesomeness.
Although Spears drew criticism for her revealing attire often imitated by her female fans she was able to convey a wholesomeness that proved highly profitable.
The historical context – i.e. male insecurity about women's sexual choice - is seemingly redefined as an innate feminine inclination towards modesty and wholesomeness; or in Greer's case, appears to have been ignored.
Hilfiger – having brought American East Coast wholesomeness to the masses – is now interchangeable with everything that has come to epitomise the preppy way of dressing.
But after several days of wholesomeness and happy evening unwinding, we were able to take it in our stride.
