Non-PRO English to Persian (Farsi) Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings IRIB2 - خوش‌نشین‌ها

Greetings,

This came up on the subtitles. In the new series, خوش‌نشین‌ها (The Squatters), a taxi driver, while eating seeds, was complaining that whereas in the old days fewer than one seed shell in a hundred was empty, now almost all of them were empty.

Someone then said, “I remember in the past there were almonds in the seeds.” At least that's what the subtitles said.

As you will never find almonds in the seeds, could this be a way of making fun of people who always talk as if the “good” old days were better than the present?

I am most intrigued by this.

All the best, and many thanks,

Simon