Eating in the 50's

[two_bit_score]

Gracious. I do remember that pizza in a box. That stuff was AWFUL! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

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

Later,
Dan

Yep. That chun king stuff was really awful. We THOUGHT it was delicious.


TBS

 

[Wagtail]

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

Tom & 2Lane... It's all about how you have it. My first bagel was in Montreal, PQ; Toasted and buttered, a slice of Swiss cheese, Montreal smoked meat (you can substitute pastrami if you have to) and topped with Dijon mustard. YUMMO! :licking:

 

[Egon]

Tom & 2Lane... It's all about how you have it. My first bagel was in Montreal, PQ; Toasted and buttered, a slice of Swiss cheese, Montreal smoked meat (you can substitute pastrami if you have to) and topped with Dijon mustard. YUMMO! :licking:

That do make me hungry!

 

[check]

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.

The guy that invented that stuff worked in my department. He made a lot of money off of it!

 

[check]

Tom & 2Lane... It's all about how you have it. My first bagel was in Montreal, PQ; Toasted and buttered, a slice of Swiss cheese, Montreal smoked meat (you can substitute pastrami if you have to) and topped with Dijon mustard. YUMMO! :licking:

There is a bagel shop that is a few blocks from me, and if you were standing right there when the bagels come out of the oven, they are lovely and soft and warm and chewy. I love the sesame seed bagels with egg salad on them. Yum squared!

 

[Bird]

I was 24 years old when I had my first bagel; toasted with cream cheese. Not bad, but I've never known of any reason to buy any since.

 

[Ken]

Visiting the lady's family . with the idea of future wife. we arrived at breakfast time. She was the oldest of 10 siblings and 2 added later. anyways invited to sit down at kitchen table . Father at one end and seated age wise along a bench type seating then chairs along the other side. until place we were asked to sit.

There was enough bacon to feed a small army bowls of butter and quart containers of Dixie Pride honey syrup. The mother opened the wood stove oven and pulled out a pan if home made biscuits size of cats head and 24 in the pan. placed on platter and put on the table. the blessing was in the eating because they were buttered slathered with syrup and eaten in less time than I have spent typing. . The second pan same size then was placed on the platter and made it to our end of the table next to the father.
One of the best meals ever eaten.
Now 60 years later the family's still gets together and talk about there growing up with so many close to same age.
Went to local school with 2 teachers for entire grade school. then high school and developed friends that still get enjoyment in the rural living there used to be.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

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

That's it! That's the word..."Cardboard".

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Venturing to stray a bit from the topic at hand, it's my personal opinion that one of the things that has made this country great is the fact that we have all assimilated and have become a small part of a larger whole. However, our education system for so many years has been, in the manner of politics, primarily local. I went to a one room school that had grades one through eight, all taught by the same teacher. She was Teacher, Administrator, Superintendent, Principal, Janitor, Grounds keeper and Nurse. She pumped the water, lit the stove, swept the floor, rang the bell and bandaged our bunged up knees...and we learned. It had a flavor all of its own, and I might add an aroma all of its own, partially from the many brown bagged lunches that had sat on the shelf over the years, and partially from the nondescript two holers located not too far from the water well.

I graduated in a class of 18; and wouldn't trade the small school experience for anything. We were part of the community; as were the teachers. They lived in the community; most were born and raised there. My 7th and 8th grade teacher died in the same house where she was born in 1914; her husband was the Superintendent, basketball coach and Science teacher. They lived about two blocks from the school...which incidentally had running water, electricity and steam heat...but no A/C.

In sum, it is obvious that the transition from small locally controlled schools to gigantic, monolithic over-staffed, over regulated schools is not necessarily a good thing. A shiny, tiled and air conditioned gymnasium is a testimony to money thrown at an institution, but Astro-turf does not a doctor, engineer, accountant or a lawyer make, not does it necessarily crank out a cookie-cutter good citizen.

Eaten up with nostalgia? Maybe, but I think we are abandoning something so incredibly special and unique that we are beginning to lose part of our heritage, and to that extent part of the American personality. End of rant.

 

[3930dave]

In sum, it is obvious that the transition from small locally controlled schools to gigantic, monolithic over-staffed, over regulated schools is not necessarily a good thing. A shiny, tiled and air conditioned gymnasium is a testimony to money thrown at an institution, but Astro-turf does not a doctor, engineer, accountant or a lawyer make, not does it necessarily crank out a cookie-cutter good citizen.

Eaten up with nostalgia? Maybe, but I think we are abandoning something so incredibly special and unique that we are beginning to lose part of our heritage, and to that extent part of the American personality. End of rant.

Social cohesion. I was thinking of it reading Ken's post, and there are well-stated echoes of it in your's.

Same history and present-day problems north of the 49'th.

Rgds, D.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Social cohesion. I was thinking of it reading Ken's post, and there are well-stated echoes of it in your's.

Same history and present-day problems north of the 49'th.

Rgds, D.

My High School was long ago consolidated into a larger school district, about a 20 mile ride by bus, depending on where you live. It's a real shame. The individual character of the community is slowly dissolving, and our alumni group is dwindling to the point that there are barely enough for an annual banquet. The old school building is gone also...but time marches on.

 

[Johnny g]

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

I have one almost every day, my choice is the everything variety, you can smell the garlic while they are toasting, don't like them unless they are toasted with butter and sometimes peanut butter.

 

[Looking4new]

With the cardboard (stale) bagels, run them through the microwave for 15 seconds then lay the butter to them. They will soften right up.

 

[sixdogs]

With the cardboard (stale) bagels, run them through the microwave for 15 seconds then lay the butter to them. They will soften right up.

We buy Costco cinnamon-raisin bagels when they are soft and fresh and my wife individually freezes them in ziplock bags ASAP. We take them out of the freezer one at a time, do 40 seconds in the microwave and you cannot tell from fresh. They are wonderful with good butter but also fine all by themselves after slicing in half.

 

[TomSeller]

Tom & 2Lane... It's all about how you have it. My first bagel was in Montreal, PQ; Toasted and buttered, a slice of Swiss cheese, Montreal smoked meat (you can substitute pastrami if you have to) and topped with Dijon mustard. YUMMO! :licking:

Now that DOES sound good !!

 

[Weedy Fields]

My Uncle was Career Army, Sargent Major.
He served in Korea and Vietnam.
His last station was ROTC at St Norberts In DePere WI.
He, his son and me would go on fishing/camping trips.
For food he would get C rations. They had a small 2 piece metal folding can opener in them. My Cousin and I thought C rations were fine dining.
We'd trade stuff back and forth, meals were the best part of the trips. Of course my uncle was amused by our enthusiasm with C rations.
Another good thing he would get us was .22 shells, he'd give them to us by the brick. Lots of shooting fun.

 

[oldballs]

It's funny that you mention Army food. I thought the chow line food was good as well as the C/K rations, especially the canned fruit. But us city kids in my neighborhood never ate as good as the country boys, maybe that's why??

 

[dmccarty]

We buy Costco cinnamon-raisin bagels when they are soft and fresh and my wife individually freezes them in ziplock bags ASAP. We take them out of the freezer one at a time, do 40 seconds in the microwave and you cannot tell from fresh. They are wonderful with good butter but also fine all by themselves after slicing in half.

We too buy Costco bagels and freeze them. But Costco bagels are like many store bought bagels in that they are bagels in name only. Real bagels are boiled THEN baked. The boiling gives the bagel it's chewiness. I used to eat at least two bagel a day at a real bagel bakery and not having one near the house is a big negative about living in the country. After living in South FLA, and eating at Jewish deli's and bakeries, it was hard moving to NC because of the lack of some foods. The local bagel chain is good but they looked at me like I had horns when I asked if they had any bialy's. :licking::licking::licking: Course NC does have its vinegar pork BBQ with slaw which is very yummy and compensates for lack of good bagels and bialys. On the other hand, South FLA had Toms BBQ which was as tomato based BBQ and VERY good as well as Cuban bread and food. I do miss Cuban sandwiches....

Later,
Dan

 

[Johnny g]

We too buy Costco bagels and freeze them. But Costco bagels are like many store bought bagels in that they are bagels in name only. Real bagels are boiled THEN baked. The boiling gives the bagel it's chewiness. I used to eat at least two bagel a day at a real bagel bakery and not having one near the house is a big negative about living in the country. After living in South FLA, and eating at Jewish deli's and bakeries, it was hard moving to NC because of the lack of some foods. The local bagel chain is good but they looked at me like I had horns when I asked if they had any bialy's. :licking::licking::licking: Course NC does have its vinegar pork BBQ with slaw which is very yummy and compensates for lack of good bagels and bialys. On the other hand, South FLA had Toms BBQ which was as tomato based BBQ and VERY good as well as Cuban bread and food. I do miss Cuban sandwiches....

Later,
Dan

Never heard of bialys, what are they.

 

[sixdogs]

Never heard of bialys, what are they.

It's like a bagel with no hole and smothered with onions. You have to like onions to like these but, trust me, you will like bialys.