Maybe grass roots, small production facilities w/ ability for expansion as demand increases?

Chocolate chips were an "aHa!" moment for me. When we were young, chocolate chips in cookies were creamy & easily melted; they were made with cocoa, sugar, vanilla. NOW most of them are waxy & firm when baked in a cookie; natural ingredients at bare minimum just enough to hold the chemical concoction together.

And baked goods in grocery store bakeries are worse! The cakes are frosted with glop shipped in 5-gallon buckets; fake chocolate icing, fake eclairs, fake brownies.

Make Bakeries Great Again!!!
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Fruit is one of Nana's complaints.
Peaches for instance have not been real for yrs and yrs.
They used to be soft squishy flesh packed with flavor.
Now they are mostly as hard as and apple and go from hard to rotten, there is no soft flavorful peaches.

I got my hands on a crop of White Peaches last yr that were closer to the real thing than I had seen in well... decades really.

You're right about the glop in buckets. I worked in a farm bakery. Everything came frozen that we baked except for the cakes we made. First day I started work there, I was floored. Corporations ruined our products. They made everything to be convenient for businesses and our consumption.
I worked in the restaurant industry for years in NYC. Food use to be made from basic ingredients. I wouldn't be surprised if these franchised restaurants are using frozen ready prepared foods. I will eat only at non franchised restaurants and never fast food. Problem is most of the restaurants are franchises which means they are part of the corporations. Not much of a choice to eat clean food.