Eating in the 50's

sixdogs · Mar 17, 2017

Not sure f the name but I consumed my fair share of what I think was called Ju-Ju beads.

tcreeley · Mar 17, 2017

Biggest difference between food in the '50's and today is that they didn't use the chemical additives that we use today. They didn't wax the fruit and vegetables, douse it in pesticides, use glysophate as a dessicant to harvest the wheat, kill the green before digging the potatoes. They let the sun and cold do their jobs. 90% of todays supermarket food is GMO - from corn to soy to beet and cane sugar.
Eating in the 1950's is closer to eating today's organic food than anything else.
Today got to grow it yourself, or eat organic to eat as healthy as when you were a kid.

Bird · Mar 17, 2017

sixdogs said:
Not sure f the name but I consumed my fair share of what I think was called Ju-Ju beads.

That's something I don't recall ever even hearing of before, but I see it's certainly shown on the Internet.

George2615 · Mar 17, 2017

Bird said:
That's something I don't recall ever even hearing of before, but I see it's certainly shown on the Internet.

And don't forget Good N Plenty candy. Those were the days you could go Trick or Treatin' safely.

/pine · Mar 17, 2017

George2615 said:
And don't forget Good N Plenty candy. Those were the days you could go Trick or Treatin' safely.

Good N Plenty are also still available in most grocery stores...as for Jujubes this is what I recall: Jujube (confectionery) - Wikipedia

jerrybob · Mar 17, 2017

Anybody remember horehound candy.......I love horehounds.......hard to find these days but still a few places that sell it.

2LaneCruzer · Mar 17, 2017

I love it. Only one place to get if other other than online, and that is Hobby Lobby.

sixdogs · Mar 17, 2017

/pine said:
Good N Plenty are also still available in most grocery stores...as for Jujubes this is what I recall: Jujube (confectionery) - Wikipedia

That's the one.

Also, they're still around but "Pinwheels" cookies were a real treat in the early-mid 1950's. If I was a good kid when we went shopping on Thursdays, we would buy a bag of those chocolate covered marshmallow/cake cookies and the weekend would be off to a great start.

Imposters followed those cookies in a year or two and occasionally we were fooled by clever marketing and "close enough" cookies that fell woefully short.

sixdogs · Mar 17, 2017

Remember red "string" licorice that looked like shoelaces rather than the fatter ones?

George2615 · Mar 17, 2017

/pine said:
Good N Plenty are also still available in most grocery stores...as for Jujubes this is what I recall: Jujube (confectionery) - Wikipedia

Both still being sold in local wally World here.

George2615 · Mar 17, 2017

sixdogs said:
Remember red "string" licorice that looked like shoelaces rather than the fatter ones?

Twizzlers and other brands sell pull and peel shoelace licorice also avail. at WW.

Sprinklerman · Mar 17, 2017

/pine said:
Good N Plenty are also still available in most grocery stores...as for Jujubes this is what I recall: Jujube (confectionery) - Wikipedia

15 or so years ago a Mother found these red and pink capsules in her sons dresser drawer . She wanted to know what drugs he was taking , so she went to the police station with them . She gave them to the cop on duty , and asked what they were ? He looked , broke one in half , licked it . " Just as I suspected Mam , your son is hooked on Good n Plentys "

Inspector507 · Mar 17, 2017

I remember eating fried cornmeal mush with syrup. I also accompanied Mom to the local dairy farmer for fresh milk, in gallon jugs. She had him dip off a couple of jugs of cream to make butter. One dinner that we had often was beef tongue, which I never did acquire a taste for. One special meal was beef liver and onions. Occasionally I see it in a restaurant now and then, but not often. Of course everything we grew was canned. Since we raised hogs the freezer was always full.

Leejohn · Mar 17, 2017

We drink fresh milk and I make butter some times. BTY I'm dranking some of that good old milk right now. And another thing I still eat polk.

Looking4new · Mar 17, 2017

sixdogs said:
Remember red "string" licorice that looked like shoelaces rather than the fatter ones?

Shoe string licorice.

check · Mar 17, 2017

Jawbreakets

check · Mar 17, 2017

check said:
Jawbreakets

oops! Jawbreakers

TomSeller · Mar 17, 2017

Leejohn said:
We drink fresh milk and I make butter some times. BTY I'm dranking some of that good old milk right now. And another thing I still eat polk.

When milking the cows the cats would come by and want me to squirt a stream of milk their way. Talk about fresh milk. I also filled their bowls mixed with dry dog food. Between that and keeping the mice and snake population down, it made for the great barn cats.

Leejohn · Mar 17, 2017

TomSeller said:
When milking the cows the cats would come by and want me to squirt a stream of milk their way. Talk about fresh milk. I also filled their bowls mixed with dry dog food. Between that and keeping the mice and snake population down, it made for the great barn cats.

Yes I did the same, but sure didn't have any money for dry dog food. I don't think the cat would of got any chance at all if it had milk in it, we would be eating it.

TomSeller · Mar 17, 2017

Leejohn said:
Yes I did the same, but sure didn't have any money for dry dog food. I don't think the cat would of got any chance at all if it had milk in it, we would be eating it.

The cat the dog food?