Don't feel dumb for asking :) Each country has its own habits. If you are building your own house, you can make a storage room just for food. Here in Romania, apartment buildings are built with this storage room for many years with a very good reason. I don't know how much you know about Romania or any other Eastern European country, but during communist time, there has been food shortages and people were cooking, baking and preparing food for rainy days and these storage rooms were needed. Stores were almost empty all the time, you got 10 eggs, 1 kg sugar, 1 kg flour, 1 L oil , 1 kg pork, 1 kg chicken a month, half kg bread per person. So life was tough! We've learned to prepare everything from scratch and use what we could get staying in line for hours, pushing, shoving etc. We made jams and zakusca during summer so we can have them during winter. I was a kid but still remember those ugly times :)
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Looking at the past can bring some tough memories to handle, but there's also a lot to learn from those times. Like you mentioned, everything was prepared from the scratch, and people definitely were using every bit of food they got in hand. Nowadays people are buying a lot of heavily processed food, since it's "easier", and the amount of food waste is really shocking! It's quite depressing to watch.
By the way, I had to google what zakusca is, and it looks and seems really delicious! 😋