Eating in the 50's

[bigtiller]

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.

Holy cow, $6.79 for a 24 pack plus tax and shipping. That's a bigger ripoff than the real thing.

 

[milkman]

It was a special treat when mom would have us kids put a gallon jar of milk in the spring, that meant we were having cornbread and cold milk for supper, sometime it was buttermilk and cornbread. I remember walking across the holler to the store and getting a 10 cent Baby Ruth candy bar 1/4 pound of pure heaven. Could also buy single .22 shorts, get a quarters worth and borrow my uncle's single shot rifle and shoot at birds. Dad also used it when we killed hogs, use the .22 shorts.

 

[PILOON]

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.

Agree with most but have noticed that I enjoy more spicy foods and the spicier the better.
But still enjoy all my old standards equally well.

 

[TomSeller]

Paper strips with candy. The only thing like that I can remember were Zots where were in long plastic tube/bag.

Pixy Stix?

 

[Looking4new]

I remember going to the store for Mom and getting a single pack of cigs. 20 pack $0.35/pck, 25 $0.37/pck.

 

[Bird]

It was a special treat when mom would have us kids put a gallon jar of milk in the spring, that meant we were having cornbread and cold milk for supper, sometime it was buttermilk and cornbread. I remember walking across the holler to the store and getting a 10 cent Baby Ruth candy bar 1/4 pound of pure heaven. Could also buy single .22 shorts, get a quarters worth and borrow my uncle's single shot rifle and shoot at birds. Dad also used it when we killed hogs, use the .22 shorts.

We didn't have a spring, but did have a refrigerator to keep the milk in, so in the hot summer time, supper on the front porch of cornbread and sweet milk was common when there was no air-conditioning to make us want to stay inside. And mother had a big mouth gallon jar into which she would put some ice cubes, sugar, vanilla, and milk; shake it up and we had milkshakes for dessert.

And yep, the .22 rifle killed the hogs and the calves when it was time to butcher them.

 

[PILOON]

Cracker Jacks-----
The old joke was when a person was a poor driver we'd ask him if he got his permit in a Cracker Jack box!
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Bird ---"And yep, the .22 rifle killed the hogs and the calves when it was time to butcher them. "

It was my job to butcher our pet ducks for stew come fall.
When I de-headed the first one and it ran away with its head on the chopping block I called it quits and nobody else wanted duck for dinner. LOL .22 did the other one.

(we were suburban but not rural types)

 

[Bird]

We never had ducks, but I sure had to pull the heads off lots and lots of chickens. The way we did it was to hold a chicken by both feet, let it down to the ground, lay a stick (old broomstick or old hoe handle or such) across its neck, quickly step on both ends of the stick, pull, and toss the headless chicken out in front of you to flop around and bleed out. Of course they were NEVER skinned. They were dipped into very hot water, plucked, and singed, before being gutted.

 

[Egon]

We used a chopping block and axe for the chickens. Then the hot water soak and plucking. Geese we recovered with a wet cloth and then ironed. Neither job would make my best wish list.

 

[sixdogs]

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

mark

In the late 1950's we went to the McDonalds in or near Cleveland, Ohio. We were on a trip through that area and the stop was a shocking surprise and the highlight of our day. Everyone we knew was talking about McDonalds. Anyway, I got a hamburger*, french fries, a chocolate milkshake and undoubtedly something else. For the next couple of days it was all we talked about and we could not believe that anyone, anywhere could sell however many hamburgers showed on their sign.

*It's possible we had cheeseburgers.

 

[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?