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Feb 27, 2020 10:39:58   #
bahmer
 
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Eating In The 1950's

EATING IN THE FIFTIES

Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.
Curry was a surname.
Taco? Never saw one till I was 15.
All chips were plain.
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.
Buffalo's didn't have wings
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 and stewed.
Pineapples came in chunks or were round with a hole in the middle, 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.

There were three things that we never ever had on/at our table in the fifties . . . elbows, hats and cell phones!

...and there was always two choices for each meal...

"TAKE IT" OR LEAVE IT" THANK YOU.
Eating In The 1950's br br EATING IN THE FIFTIES... (show quote)


Amen and Amen spot on and it should have remained so. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

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Feb 27, 2020 12:17:04   #
TrueAmerican
 
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Eating In The 1950's

EATING IN THE FIFTIES

Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.
Curry was a surname.
Taco? Never saw one till I was 15.
All chips were plain.
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.
Buffalo's didn't have wings
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 and stewed.
Pineapples came in chunks or were round with a hole in the middle, 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.

There were three things that we never ever had on/at our table in the fifties . . . elbows, hats and cell phones!

...and there was always two choices for each meal...

"TAKE IT" OR LEAVE IT" THANK YOU.
Eating In The 1950's br br EATING IN THE FIFTIES... (show quote)


Sure sounds a whole lot like my house growing up !!!!!!

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Feb 27, 2020 12:21:42   #
TrueAmerican
 
American Vet wrote:
The big question is: When will Kevyboy grow up?

People experience a lot of different things in life and depending on where they grew up, may or may not have had exposure to the things he mentioned. Learn to think out of the box, Kevy. In fact, just learn to think....


Or he could just shut up !!!!!!

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Feb 27, 2020 13:06:44   #
American Vet
 
TrueAmerican wrote:
Or he could just shut up !!!!!!


That would be preferable; but not likely.

having him at the keyboard is like giving a monkey a machine gun.....

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Feb 27, 2020 13:09:54   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Kevyn wrote:
Where did you grow up? You must have had a pretty sheltered childhood. Immigrants brought most of the stuff like kabobs and pasta. To our country before the turn of the last century, tacos have been popular from the southwest to Chicago far before the 50s.. Absopure sold bottled water to homes and businesses since 1908.


And many of these things stayed in immigrant neighborhoods located within the city.

Fifty years ago my uncle, in South Dakota on the family farm, asked if we had "tackoes" in CA.
I replied, "What's that?"
He said, "tackoes."
So I asked him what he was looking at (He was reading the newspaper). I had never heard of tackoes.
He showed me what he was reading. The word was "tacos." He had never heard of them, nor tried one.
That was 1967. Probably before you were born, Kevyn.

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Feb 27, 2020 13:12:31   #
American Vet
 
dtucker300 wrote:
And many of these things stayed in immigrant neighborhoods located within the city.

Fifty years ago my uncle, in South Dakota on the family farm, asked if we had "tackoes" in CA.
I replied, "What's that?"
He said, "tackoes."
So I asked him what he was looking at (He was reading the newspaper). I had never heard of tackoes.
He showed me what he was reading. The word was "tacos." He had never heard of them, nor tried one.
That was 1967. Probably before you were born, Kevyn.
And many of these things stayed in immigrant neigh... (show quote)


I ran across several guys in the Service who were from NYC - never heard of black eyed peas - nor had they ever eaten fried potatoes.

Of course, I had never had lox and bagels......

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Feb 27, 2020 16:00:38   #
Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa
 
American Vet wrote:
That would be preferable; but not likely.

having him at the keyboard is like giving a monkey a machine gun.....


and...and...a low IQ monkey with a nervous twitch at that, I hope that Kevy doesn't actually drive that vehicle he is pictured in that would be dangerous to everyone.

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Feb 27, 2020 16:58:46   #
Highlander66 Loc: Illinois
 
I grew up with “you can eat it and like it; eat it and don’t like it; or don’t eat it, but that’s what you’re getting!” However, in the wilds of west central Illinois, there was plenty of wild game and I grew up on a cattle farm so fresh grass fed meat was always available. There were Chinese buffets and Mexican places in Peoria and Galesburg so we got that once in a while. This was 45-50 yrs ago. Mom was a good cook and other than dad wanting the nasty liver and onions every so often the food was always good. We had a big garden and did our own freezing and canning, something which I still do for myself. I personally like a nice thick chicken veggie soup in a slow cooker on a weekend.

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Feb 27, 2020 17:03:50   #
Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa
 
Highlander66 wrote:
I grew up with “you can eat it and like it; eat it and don’t like it; or don’t eat it, but that’s what you’re getting!” However, in the wilds of west central Illinois, there was plenty of wild game and I grew up on a cattle farm so fresh grass fed meat was always available. There were Chinese buffets and Mexican places in Peoria and Galesburg so we got that once in a while. This was 45-50 yrs ago. Mom was a good cook and other than dad wanting the nasty liver and onions every so often the food was always good. We had a big garden and did our own freezing and canning, something which I still do for myself. I personally like a nice thick chicken veggie soup in a slow cooker on a weekend.
I grew up with “you can eat it and like it; eat it... (show quote)


I experienced the same thing, I lived in Macomb, Ill. I did work all around that area from Canton to Keokuk, Ia repairing Office Equipment & Cash Registers.

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Feb 27, 2020 22:05:32   #
Mikeyavelli
 
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Eating In The 1950's

EATING IN THE FIFTIES

Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.
Curry was a surname.
Taco? Never saw one till I was 15.
All chips were plain.
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.
Buffalo's didn't have wings
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 and stewed.
Pineapples came in chunks or were round with a hole in the middle, 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.

There were three things that we never ever had on/at our table in the fifties . . . elbows, hats and cell phones!

...and there was always two choices for each meal...

"TAKE IT" OR LEAVE IT" THANK YOU.
Eating In The 1950's br br EATING IN THE FIFTIES... (show quote)


In winter, vegetables were out of a can.
And, you had to eat everything on your plate because children were starving in China.
Never understood how my eating helped the starving children in China.

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Feb 28, 2020 05:32:57   #
American Vet
 
Highlander66 wrote:
I grew up with “you can eat it and like it; eat it and don’t like it; or don’t eat it, but that’s what you’re getting!” However, in the wilds of west central Illinois, there was plenty of wild game and I grew up on a cattle farm so fresh grass fed meat was always available. There were Chinese buffets and Mexican places in Peoria and Galesburg so we got that once in a while. This was 45-50 yrs ago. Mom was a good cook and other than dad wanting the nasty liver and onions every so often the food was always good. We had a big garden and did our own freezing and canning, something which I still do for myself. I personally like a nice thick chicken veggie soup in a slow cooker on a weekend.
I grew up with “you can eat it and like it; eat it... (show quote)


LOL You'r mentioning "canning" reminded me how much I h**ed sitting on the back porch snapping green beans.....

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Feb 28, 2020 08:25:20   #
flash
 
Used to watch my Grandpa mix it up and eat. I'd say yuk how can you stand to do that and he'd reply it's all gonna mix up anyway

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Feb 28, 2020 12:04:45   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
American Vet wrote:
LOL You'r mentioning "canning" reminded me how much I h**ed sitting on the back porch snapping green beans.....


There was an interesting film called Food, Inc. a few years ago. I saw it on PBS. It showed how the monocultural agri-businesses created problems in the food chain. One incident that stood out was a raw chicken processing facility that was done outdoors the way our Grandfather's did it, and was shut down by the Health Department and FDA. However, the chicken had far lower levers of bacteria and salmonella than a state-of-the-art Tyson facility that contributed to the spread of salmonella.

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Feb 28, 2020 12:31:42   #
Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa
 
Mikeyavelli wrote:
In winter, vegetables were out of a can.
And, you had to eat everything on your plate because children were starving in China.
Never understood how my eating helped the starving children in China.


I grew up on a farm in the 40's-50's and 60's and we butchered our own farm raised: beef, pigs and chickens. We saved and ate parts that today I wouldn't even consider eating. Three things I now see at Walmart that don't look appetizing to me are: whole hogs heads, chicken feet and tripe, among other things.

I have castrated pigs and cleaned the "mountain oysters" for cooking. You have to almost freeze them to make it easier to remove the tough skin sack they are inside of. I still have an "Old Timer" pocket knife with 3 blades and one of them is designed to be used as a scalpel "for operations".

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Feb 28, 2020 14:49:57   #
Mikeyavelli
 
Oldsailor65 wrote:
I grew up on a farm in the 40's-50's and 60's and we butchered our own farm raised: beef, pigs and chickens. We saved and ate parts that today I wouldn't even consider eating. Three things I now see at Walmart that don't look appetizing to me are: whole hogs heads, chicken feet and tripe, among other things.

I have castrated pigs and cleaned the "mountain oysters" for cooking. You have to almost freeze them to make it easier to remove the tough skin sack they are inside of. I still have an "Old Timer" pocket knife with 3 blades and one of them is designed to be used as a scalpel "for operations".
I grew up on a farm in the 40's-50's and 60's and ... (show quote)


I wasn't a farm boy, but I grew up eating all parts of the animal.
I brought a perfectly roasted pig's head to a mixed political party. Lots of lefties chided me and some left the event out of disgust.
It was delicious, and definitely the star dish brought to the party.

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