Eating in the 50's

[mjarrels]

Fast food was the lunch counter at woolworths and all drug stores has a lunch counter and could mix a cherry coke.

mark

 

[Gary Fowler]

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

I recently had to start drinking Lactaid (lactose free) milk. My sister and I were discussing fat content milk and both agreed that skim milk & 1% were just about like water but 2% is hard to tell from whole milk which is about 4%. I tried it and now the 2% is all I buy. I guess if I now tasted whole milk it would taste a bit fatty.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

In my house, skim milk was known as "Blue John". On the farm, as someone said, it was meant for the pigs.

 

[Gary Fowler]

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??

Well I grew up "country boy" with all the fresh veggies, home cured meats etc but I always thought the Army food was good. There was always a choice and even the C and K rations were pretty good to me at the time. I always liked the SOS and still make it for myself on occasion. I guess it all depends on the quality of cook that you had in the mess hall.
I haven't tried any C or K rations in over 40 years so they may not taste so good now.

 

[Looking4new]

We used the chopping block for the chickens. My job was offing the heads. Mom dipped and pulled feathers and Dad gutted them. The .22 was for rabbits.
I graduated to a .303 eventually (meaning I bought it) that was good for rabbits, BUT you had to take their heads off with it. Any where else on the rabbit and you wasted not only the rabbit, but the shell as well. The only reason I got the .303 was because I saw a black bear while I was out hunting rabbit with the .22. I figured the 22 wouldn't do anything other than piss the bear off.

 

[dmccarty]

Pixy Stix?

Nope but I loved those tubes of sugar! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

This is what I was talking about, Zotz Fizz Power - OldTimeCandy.com

Looks like there are spelled Zotz and not Zots.

Google, figured out the correct spelling and it was the second suggested search. :shocked:

Later,
Dan

 

[/pine]

for old candy I liked Jujubes and NECCO wafers...I still buy NECCO wafers at wally world...

 

[Johnny g]

I recently had to start drinking Lactaid (lactose free) milk. My sister and I were discussing fat content milk and both agreed that skim milk & 1% were just about like water but 2% is hard to tell from whole milk which is about 4%. I tried it and now the 2% is all I buy. I guess if I now tasted whole milk it would taste a bit fatty.

We also switched to 2% and soon thought it was just as good as hole milk, then a couple of years after that we tried 1% and soon got onto that, I don't think I would like whole or even 2% now, we killed chickens with a knife in the mouth( I think going into the brain) and that also released the feathers so they could be plucked without hot water.

 

[reb]

...I always liked the SOS ...

My wife was introduced to SOS as a kid by her stepfather (once a Marine). She liked it so much that she made it once in a school cooking class. When the teacher asked her what "SOS" meant, she didn't know. When she got home, she found out. I doubt that she passed that info on to her teacher.

A favorite of an uncle, once a Navy cook, was FOT.

 

[Johnny g]

My wife was introduced to SOS as a kid by her stepfather (once a Marine). She liked it so much that she made it once in a school cooking class. When the teacher asked her what "SOS" meant, she didn't know. When she got home, she found out. I doubt that she passed that info on to her teacher.

A favorite of an uncle, once a Navy cook, was FOT.

OK, now I'm curious , what is "SOS" or "FOT" maybe something that can't be printed here?