Eating in the 50's

Looking4new · Mar 15, 2017

Breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack for me.

sixdogs · Mar 15, 2017

two_bit_score said:
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 · Mar 15, 2017

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

LD48750 · Mar 16, 2017

Looking4new said:
Breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack for me.

Did you eat supper on the dinner table?

Wagtail · Mar 16, 2017

LD48750 said:
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 · Mar 16, 2017

LD48750 said:
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 · Mar 16, 2017

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

Bird · Mar 16, 2017

Egon said:
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 · Mar 16, 2017

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!