Eating in the 50's

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We always called it "Chef Boyareyoukidding"

 

[Citydude]

We always called it "Chef Boyareyoukidding"

Good one!

 

[Citydude]

I made some popcorn in a pan last night and was thinking about Jiffy Pop popcorn. I remember eating it as a kid and I was wondering why my mom bought the stuff since it is so easy to make popcorn on the stove. My guess was Marketing. :laughing: Most likely I saw a Jiffy Pop commercial and nagged my mother to buy some. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

I thought Jiffy Pop was an techno marvel the first time I seen it in person.

 

[Bird]

We always called it "Chef Boyareyoukidding"

After avoiding it for many years, a couple of years ago, I decided to try a can again, and yep, it's still just as bad tasting as I remembered it.

 

[reb]

"Store bought". Yep, that was a somewhat derogatory term around our house most of the time. At least when it came to food.

TBS

When my mom remarried into a family with kids still at home, she made some jam. The youngest said, "That's almost as good as store bought!" He didn't make many points that day.

 

[Looking4new]

Anyone remember Chung King "Chinese" food out of a can? YUCK! :confused2:

Later,
Dan

Oh, do I! Are you sure it came out of A can and not out of *THE can*?




*The can aka toilet.*

 

[dalroo]

Funny several here had pizza for the first time in OKC. My mom has told me she had pizza at Sussey's in 1956 for the first time. Sussey was on to something.

I had my first bagel while well into college.

 

[jerrybob]

We used to eat cornmeal mush for breakfast....loved it. I also remember the golden arches saying...."over one million sold." Growing up in So Calif......I remember in the 60's a fast food place called "Chicken Delight". Mom would order a bucket of chicken and it was delivered. "Don't cook tonight....call Chicken Delight!" Also remember when there was only one In&Out Burger.

 

[Looking4new]

Our modern water pressure system was a piston pump sucking water out of the well and going into a 45 gallon barrel in the atic.
cold water only. You wanted hot water? Put a bucket or 5 of it on the stove for your bath. Dad refused to built a outhouse. The toilet flushed just like the ones in the city. The flush water came from the barrel in the atic.
It wasn't until 3 years before we sold that house that he hooked up the plumbing to the kitchen taps and did away with the hand pump. also put in a proper pressure system, all run off that little piston pump. Pump was made by Otaco out of Orillia, ON.

 

[TomSeller]

After avoiding it for many years, a couple of years ago, I decided to try a can again, and yep, it's still just as bad tasting as I remembered it.

You did this on purpose?

 

[Bird]

You did this on purpose?

Yep, wasn't the smartest thing I ever did.:laughing: Since every grocery store I know of has the stuff, I figured it must be selling and maybe it was just me when I tried it many years ago. I'm not likely to do that again.:laughing:

 

[Leejohn]

I bet you didn't drink any 2% milk eather. To us it was for the pigs.

 

[mapper]

I made some popcorn in a pan last night and was thinking about Jiffy Pop popcorn. I remember eating it as a kid and I was wondering why my mom bought the stuff since it is so easy to make popcorn on the stove. My guess was Marketing. :laughing: Most likely I saw a Jiffy Pop commercial and nagged my mother to buy some. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

My impression of jiffy pop was that it was always burned, mostly saw the stuff when someone showed up at a camp out with it.

 

[mapper]

We always called it "Chef Boyareyoukidding"

Had that stuff one time at a friends house, could not figure out why anyone would want to eat it,:yuck: I was used to my moms scratch made sauce and noodles that had texture

 

[TomSeller]

I bet you didn't drink any 2% milk eather. To us it was for the pigs.

I don't know what % ours was that we actually drank. We milked by hand and let the cream rise to separate then skimmed it off for butter. I supposed the % depended on how much cream we separated off? Mostly guernsey cows so we had decent cream

 

[Leejohn]

I don't know what % ours was that we actually drank. We milked by hand and let the cream rise to separate then skimmed it off for butter. I supposed the % depended on how much cream we separated off? Mostly guernsey cows so we had decent cream

The stuff I remenber looked like 2% milk. It might of been after it was clabbered and what was not used. I'm 77 and remember feeding it to the pigs and was like water almost. Yes we always took the cream off for butter. Also them making cottage cheese.

 

[Looking4new]

Pigs. The only part of the pig that isn't used is the squeal.

 

[LD48750]

You people make me feel like a child & I thought 70 was old.

Not exactly a city kid but small town.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Funny several here had pizza for the first time in OKC. My mom has told me she had pizza at Sussey's in 1956 for the first time. Sussey was on to something.

I had my first bagel while well into college.

Hmmm. Did she work for Humpty Dumpty Super Markets?

I had a few firsts when I was in college, but a bagle wasn't one of them. I had my first bagel about 1970 on a trip to Chicago. I thought it was a doughnut of some kind. So tough I couldn't eat it. Think that was my first and last; don't remember ever having another.

 

[TomSeller]

I had a few firsts when I was in college, but a bagle wasn't one of them. I had my first bagel about 1970 on a trip to Chicago. I thought it was a doughnut of some kind. So tough I couldn't eat it. Think that was my first and last; don't remember ever having another.

You aren't missing much, I don't care for them either. But maybe I never had any but the cardboard ones.