Subj : Re: Eating In The 50's
To   : Daryl Stout
From : George Pope
Date : Wed Mar 24 2021 07:36:57

Pretty much bang-on for me in the '70s, too. . . more or less. . .

We had yoghurt -- mostly plain, though. Pineapple in the can or dried cubes;
don't recall seeing a real one anywhere but pictures, though. . .

Oh,  early in the decade, a computer was an accountant.

logon & logoff were only campfire terms.

& if you had a floppy disk, you kept your mouth shut & hoped nobody found 
out!

/Cyberpope



 > From a Facebook post...

 > EATING IN THE FIFTIES

 > Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.

 > Curry was a surname.

 > A take-away was a mathematical problem.

 > Pizza? Sounds like a leaning tower somewhere.

 > Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time .

 > All potato chips were plain.

 > Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever, part of our dinner.

 > A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

 > Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

 > Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.

 > Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green

 > Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

 > Chickens didn't have fingers in those days.

 > None of us had ever heard of yogurt.

 > Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

 > Cooking outside was called camping.

 > Seaweed was not a recognized food.

 > 'Kebab' was not even a word, never mind a food.

 > Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being
 > white gold.

 > Prunes were medicinal.

 > Surprisingly muesli was readily available. It was called cattle feed.

 > Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of
 > a real one.

 > Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and
 > charging more than gasoline for it, they would have become a laughing
 > stock.

 > The one thing that we never ever had on at our table in the fifties...
 > was elbows or hats!
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