Eating in the 50's

[Looking4new]

Breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack for me.

 

[sixdogs]

And chewing gum cigars.


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What about those little wax bottles that had what was probably flavored sugar water in them? Or those paper strips with little dots of candy on them?
And Cracker Jack?

 

[TomSeller]

How about a chocolate malt? Tang? And buttermilk. They seemed to be a lot more prevalent back then.

 

[LD48750]

Breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack for me.

Did you eat supper on the dinner table?

 

[Wagtail]

Did you eat supper on the dinner table?

There was either the kitchen table [where most meals were had] or the dining room table.

At present I only have a 6-chair pine dining table that more resembles a horizontal filing cabinet... and I 'mostly' know where everything is on it. :laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

Did you eat supper on the dinner table?

I ate supper on the kitchen table, where all the meals were eaten and where I tore apart my rifles and cleaned them. We weren't rich enough to have a separate dining room and dining table.

Come to think about it, I am still not rich enough to have a separate dining room.

 

[Egon]

For some of us the tasty foods of the past may only be a memory as our taste buds decline with age.

 

[Bird]

For some of us the tasty foods of the past may only be a memory as our taste buds decline with age.

I don't know whether they "decline" or just change. But it is a fact that I now like some foods I used to not care for, and don't particularly like some that I used to really like.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I remember when I was about five years old, someone asked me what my favorite food was (that was pretty common back then, at least for five-year olds). I can remember plain as day what my answer was, although I don't have a clue who asked the question. My answer: "BBQ ribs, roash'- 'nears...that's what I knew them as, although I was supposed to be saying 'Roasting ears'...and Orange Ade". Although I had never drank Orange Ade, I knew I liked it.

And to this day, I still like smoked ribs and corn-on-the-cob. I smoke my own ribs according to my own technique and recipe, and drive 40 miles and wait in line as much as three hours to buy two or three bushels of fresh corn right out of the field, blanch and freeze them the same day. Yummy!

 

[Leejohn]

I still have my corn bread and raw milk.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I still have my corn bread and raw milk.

My Dad loved cornbread and milk...he would put the cornbread in a glass of milk and eat it with a spoon...he did popcorn the same way. I picked up a few of his habits, but this wasn't one of them. I like my (not sweet) cornbread hot with lots of butter!

 

[dmccarty]

You've not had good pork BBQ until you've had mustard based sauce. ....

Ra Roh! No you have started up the BBQ Wars! MUSTARD as BBQ! :confused2::shocked:



I have had mustard based BBQ and it is good. :licking::thumbsup:

But it is funny how regional it is too. The NC vinegar sauce is odd, but excellent on chopoed pig, especially with cole slaw on top. When I first had the pork BBQ sandwich at a place on I95, the lady asked if I wanted slaw on top. :shocked: Figured what the heck and said yes which was the right choice. :laughing::laughing::laughing: It is such an odd combination that works very well but I can see how it would be so regional.

Having said that, when we were in Ireland last year, they had vinegar based BBQ chopped pork sandwiches! :confused3: To say that surprised us is an understatement. But they did not have coleslaw on the sandwich and when I mentioned it they thought it strange. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I don't understand why mustard BBQ is so regional to SC. Seems like an obvious thing to do but it is done elsewhere that I know.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I remember candy cigerettes!

mark

And chewing gum cigars.


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Gracious but I do remember those things. The chewing gum cigars seemed to be a good value for my money compared to the other gums. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Seems like we saw the candy cigarettes on one of our overseas trips. It really surprised us to see them.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

What about those little wax bottles that had what was probably flavored sugar water in them? Or those paper strips with little dots of candy on them?
And Cracker Jack?

Those wax bottles were nasty! I think I bought them once and that was enough. :shocked::shocked::shocked:

Paper strips with candy. The only thing like that I can remember were Zots where were in long plastic tube/bag. Each Zot was in its own wrapping but connected to others in a string of plastic. They were cool/good in that they had this fizzy sugar stuff inside the sugar candy shell. When the sugar shell would be used up the fizzy stuff would fizzy up in your mouth. If you could find a puddle of water that was Goldi Locks deep on a hard surface, you could throw the Zot real hard to break on the concrete and the fizzy stuff would fizz in the water. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Ah Youth.

Cracker Jack is awesome though I have not had it in years. Pathetic prizes though. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Never enough peanuts either.

Later,
Dan

 

[flyerdan]

You can still get candy cigarettes online, any retailer in the US that tried selling them would probably be burned down by the anti smoker crowd. All the other stuff discussed is available there as well, if there is a niche market for it the internet has it.

 

[check]

You can still get candy cigarettes online, any retailer in the US that tried selling them would probably be burned down by the anti smoker crowd. All the other stuff discussed is available there as well, if there is a niche market for it the internet has it.

There is a candy store on the way up to our cottage that has ALL of that stuff.

 

[Egon]

I don't know whether they "decline" or just change. But it is a fact that I now like some foods I used to not care for, and don't particularly like some that I used to really like.

Supposedly folks our age have lost about sixty percent of our taste buds. Or so I've read somewhere?

[video]http://www.everydayhealth.com/senior-health/when-aging-steals-your-sense-of-taste.aspx[/video]

Just one of the many articles on taste.

 

[mjarrels]

I remember NO fast food joints but lots of diners serving blue plate specials.

mark

 

[Looking4new]

I get my daily dose of cracker jack in summer at the Tempo truck stop in Ignace, ON.

 

[Bird]

Supposedly folks our age have lost about sixty percent of our taste buds. Or so I've read somewhere?

[video]http://www.everydayhealth.com/senior-health/when-aging-steals-your-sense-of-taste.aspx[/video]

Just one of the many articles on taste.

Well, I know my energy, strength, vision, and hearing have gone downhill, but this is the first time I ever heard of losing taste, too. Now I generally know better than to disagree with the experts, but I have serious doubts about this one; at least for me, personally.