Subj : Re: Eating In The 50's To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Wed Jun 23 2021 09:28:23 > From a Facebook post... > EATING IN THE FIFTIES :likewise for some homes in the '70s (my childhood) > Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti. > Curry was a surname. of Steph's parents & one grandfather. . . :) > A take-away was a mathematical problem. or was called a "doggy bag" > Pizza? Sounds like a leaning tower somewhere. If you asked for mediterranean flatbread, you'd get a "huh?!" look. . > Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time . I always had the Japanese mandarin a the bottom of the stocking, every Xmas morning! They're expensive now! $8 or more for a 5lb box that's usually a bit light & you need to throw away a half pound of mouldy ones. . . but worth it! I don't care if I can get 5lb of Chinese or Korean for $4 or $5! Gotta have my Japanese ones in December! > All potato chips were plain. We had flavours. Mosdt adultys only bought Sour Cream & Onion, took me years to discover there were many others. Had only two companies (Hostess & Old Dutch -- no Doritos -- cheese nacho triangles were by Old Dutch & a favorite for those who discovered the 'hungervating' side effects of non-medicinal cannabis. I recaoll, still, wyen Hostess first brought out Dill Pickle -- I loved those, but only 1 or 2 places carried them & one was 7-11 (cost double what other chips cost elsewhere) My fave as a kid was Old Duytch's Popcorn Twists (bag was 3X biugger than any other for 25c!) Ahh, 25c for a pop, chocolate bar, or bag of chips! I watched little self-serve candies (marshmallow strawberries, Double Bubble gum, etc) go from 2 for 3c to 2c to 3/5c to 3c to 5c (that was a 'WTH?!' leap for me!) Only when theser were up tyo 5c each did I discover penny candy -- one lttle out of the way corner store on the highway prolly hadn't updated his prices since the '60s, had a big 8qt glass jar of teeny Tootsie Rolls, single candy cigarettes, & other individual candies on the front counter. I was in Heaven! Now those 25c chips are almost $2! & the pops are no longer 10oz, but 12 or 16 & cost over $2! Chocolate bars are usually around $1.50. I wait for a sale on bakers chocolate chunks & buy a bag or two of dark & semi-sweet. . . > Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever, part of our dinner. My mom was hybrid on this -- we'd have rice with, say, home-made sweet & sour pork(or potatoes, which sounds weird now) & rice pudding the next day. . . > A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining. The nearest McDonalds was across the river in a town 10mi away & we MIGHT go once a year. A&W was in our town & we'd go 2-3 times/year. (much better anyway!) I discovered Wendy's on my own, in my teens & fell in love with "Triple bacon-cheese-everything, large fries, large choclit shake" > Brown bread was something only poor people ate. The '70s was when the government & medical orgs propagandized us with the canard on how good whole grains were, so I grew up on whole grain bread & cereals. . > Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking. Yup. . . well, you used cooking oil for deep frying maybe, or lard. . . > Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green My mom loverd her Red Rose tea(& I got the little animal figurines from each big tin) > Cubed sugar was regarded as posh. Or was left beside the ubiquitous coffee poit at gas stations & car sales lots. I started drinkinig coffee at age 8 at he car dealerships -- strong acid all- day coffee with 4 cubes & a tbsp of Coffeemate! Still brings back memories! > Chickens didn't have fingers in those days. nor fish, & I'm pretty sure buffalos didn't fly. . . > None of us had ever heard of yogurt. My mom was aghead of everyone else on the health foods, so we had plain yoghurt (no fruit, bleagh!) on occasion. I only use the plain for cooking curries now! > Healthy food consisted of anything edible. Mostly, yup, but therre were, in the '70s, Health Food stores where you could buy anything you bought at Safeay for tripile the cost because it said "organic" on it (some things never change, except now these triple priced products are at Safeway, et al, too) > Cooking outside was called camping. & the smoke ALWAYS followed the person most bothered by it! > Seaweed was not a recognized food. Neither was sushi ("bait") > 'Kebab' was not even a word, never mind a food. Shishkebab was new in the '70s along with smorgasbords! All hail our Swedish overlords & their fish & meatballs! > Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being > white gold. I put a layer of sugar on my sandwiches, sometimes! Not so my mom would see, of course! > Surprisingly muesli was readily available. It was called cattle feed. My mom made her own granola (home-made muesli drizzled in honey & baked) > Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of > a real one. A necessary part of sweet & sour chicken (one of my childhood faves) > 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. No kidding. I recall when bottled water first appeared in the '80s, the mocking we did of it! We'd be walking through the streets on a hot summer's afternoon, get thirsty, &jus hed to the fist outdoor tap we saw, & put our moputh right on it to drink our fill (nobody knew how mamy mouths had just been on it nor how many would follow - this is why me & my crew are covid-proofed! That & wew occasionally swam in liquid sewage(Fraser River had small towns up in the Interior, dump their unprocessed seweage straight into it) > The one thing that we never ever had on at our table in the fifties... > was elbows or hats! I only wore a baseball cap(forward-facing) occasionally on sunny days, & it came off as soon as I got inside home! One comic said he cae home & his dad asked why his cap was on backwards. "It's the style now, dad." "Son, either you turn the cap around or I will turn your head around." My dad would rap my elbow quite sharply with the back of his butter knife if my elbow was on the table. . I'm 54 now & still have no idea why anyone would care about being comfy, resting on one elbow while or after eating. . . ok, puns today. . .how about chocolate as a topic? I seem to find a way of sneaking chocolate into movie theaters.. ... I always have a few twix up my sleeve. I finally got over my addiction to chocolate, marshmallows and nuts. I won't lie, it was a rocky road. I sexually identify as chocolate My pronouns are Her-She Life is like a box of chocolates It won't last long if you're obese Hershey’s and Ikea have joined together to sell a chocolate pet. Just picked up a Kït Kaát. Now to put it together... Working at an ice cream parlor there was a customer that insisted I serve him chocolate ice cream even though we were out of it. He just wouldn’t give up. So I said “let’s play a game”. How many “vans” are in vanilla ice cream? -he said “one”(correct) So how many “straws” are in strawberry ice cream? He said “one” again (correct) So then how many “ F’s” are in chocolate ice cream? He said there is no “F” in chocolate ice cream I said “Exactly- THERE IS NO F IN CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM!!! A mummy covered in chocolate and nuts has been discovered in Egypt. Archaeologists believe it may be Pharaoh Roché... What do you call a sheep covered in chocolate? A chocolate baaaaa. A Korean martial artist was giving away chocolate bars. I asked if I could have 2. He said... "No. You can take-won-do." Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .