Charles Spurgeon Commentary Exodus 16:3

"and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger." — Exodus 16:3 (ASV)

They forgot all about the brick-making, and the whips, and the iron bondage, and they remembered nothing but the fleshpots of Egypt. Alas! How soon, when we escape from a great trial, we forget it! The present much smaller one seems far heavier than the one that is past.