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Eating in the fifties

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Eating in the fifties

Postby okie » Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:18 am

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 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 apicture 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 our table in the

fifties...was elbows!

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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby KE4AVB » Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:17 am

Went to my chicken house this morning and found out I have been robbed, not a single chicken finger left. :lol: :lol:

A lot the food we got back then was better although harder to come by. If the current generation had to do what we did when we were growing up they would simply starve to death because it didn't come out grocery store or a fast food chain store.
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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby bobodu » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:11 am

My folks never ate out much having been raised during the Depression. So I took the Old Man to Taco Bell. We got to the counter and he whispers"What kind of food do they serve here?"....Then he says " What's a gordita?' I told him it was cardboard with meat sauce and lettuce. He says " What's a chalupa?" I told him it was cardboard with meat sauce without any lettuce. Then he says " What a Cantina Power Bowl?' I told him it was bathroom cleaner...He said " Why is it on the menu?" I told him about the new federal regulations...

Last weekend, I got this really horrible craving for a really horrible Fillet-o-fish, so I headed off to McDonalds ( that's what they used to call MickieDs when we grew up...). I about schit myself when I had to fork over EIGHT DOLLARS and TWELVE CENTS for two dinky sandwiches and a small fries !!!
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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby okie » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:26 am

CHICKEN SURPRISE A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant, and order the 'Chicken Surprise'. The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot.
Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around, before the lid slams back down.
'Good grief, did you see that ?' she asks her husband.
He hadn't, so she asks him to look in the pot.
He reaches for it and again the lid rises and he sees two little eyes, looking around before it slams down..
Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and demands an explanation.
'Please sir,' says the waiter, 'what you order ?'
The husband replies, 'Chicken Surprise'.



'Ah ! So sorry,' says the waiter,
'I bring you Peeking Duck by mistake'.......


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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby bobodu » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:37 am

Ah so....that exprain holes in girls rocker room down near froor.
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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby okie » Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:50 am

bobodu wrote:Ah so....that exprain holes in girls rocker room down near froor.



Which reminds me, have you poured rv antifreeze in the P traps yet?
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Re: Eating in the fifties

Postby bobodu » Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:50 am

Did that six weeks ago when we closed up!!
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Re: Eating in the fifties

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