Eating in the 50's

[Looking4new]

Respect was taught to me via a leather belt administered by my Dad. Mother used a wooden handled hair brush, wooden side.
If she didn't get the point across with the hair brush, Dad sure did with the belt.
I remember getting the strap in school, going home and getting the belt at home for the same **** thing I got it for in school.
Dad was fair though, my glasses got busted in school when I got into a two punch fight. Buddy (he shall remain nameless) hit me and my glasses landed on the marble floor and broke. I returned the punch and he went down for the count. (NEVER attack a guys' glasses.) Later the same day I was forced to play soccer at recess without my glasses. I told the old man about it when I got home and he got on the phone and peeled a strip off the principals' *** for that. I got a holiday until the glasses were repaired. (a week) We paid 'x' amount of money for a school insurance policy that was supposed to protect us from 8 A.M. until 6 P.M. from all perils, it was well worth the money when you take in consideration that I got into at least 1 fight every week. The insurance paid for the glasses.

 

[/pine]

...The good old days were NOT all like Little House on the Prairies!

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

 

[LD48750]

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper?
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner?
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Supper?

 

[scdeerslayer]

We too buy Costco bagels and freeze them. But Costco bagels are like many store bought bagels in that they are bagels in name only. Real bagels are boiled THEN baked. The boiling gives the bagel it's chewiness. I used to eat at least two bagel a day at a real bagel bakery and not having one near the house is a big negative about living in the country. After living in South FLA, and eating at Jewish deli's and bakeries, it was hard moving to NC because of the lack of some foods. The local bagel chain is good but they looked at me like I had horns when I asked if they had any bialy's. :licking::licking::licking: Course NC does have its vinegar pork BBQ with slaw which is very yummy and compensates for lack of good bagels and bialys. On the other hand, South FLA had Toms BBQ which was as tomato based BBQ and VERY good as well as Cuban bread and food. I do miss Cuban sandwiches....

Later,
Dan

You've not had good pork BBQ until you've had mustard based sauce. I wouldn't waste good pork to tomato based but that's fine for other meats, but vinegar is okay. Other than mustard sauce the only other sauce I use is an eastern NC vinegar/molasses/ketchup based sauce, AKA "the brew". I've never seen it in restaurants but I did see something similar for sale in gallon jugs. I do have a distant relative near the middle of NC that sometimes sells BBQ made with it. That stuff is good on anything that walks but I still prefer mustard on pork. Mustard is really only good for pork and chicken. "The brew" makes the house smell funky when you make it though.

No matter what sauce is used the key to making great BBQ is to cook over hardwood and to let the sauce soak into the meat for at least an hour (preferably more) before serving. I hate restaurants that serve plain pork with bottles of sauce. We call that baked pork with sauce on the side, not BBQ.

 

[mjarrels]

I remember candy cigerettes!

mark

 

[two_bit_score]

I remember candy cigerettes!

mark

And chewing gum cigars.


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[two_bit_score]

OK, you want good butter? Make that great butter. Yup, that butter.

There is only one: Falfurrias Butter

Dairy Farmers of America

A TEXAS TRADITION SINCE 1909.

In Texas, butter is a big deal. That's why we make sure to continue the Texan family tradition of using Falfurrias® Butter. Its creamy, fresh taste always complements good old-fashioned home cooking.


BUT, I'm going to try to get some of that Kerry Gold Butter and try it.



TBS

 

[Johnny g]

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper?
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner?
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Supper?

Where I grew up, (farm community) it was Breakfast, Dinner, Supper, now its Breaky, Lunch, Dinner.

 

[Egon]

I don't know about the butter brands mentioned but that made back on the farm seemed real good to me. Even liked the buttermilk. If I recall right the home churned butter was made from cream that had been separated a bit more than usual.

 

[grnspot110]

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

Mom used to read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to us in fourth grade! Yes, I had my mother as a teacher in 4th & 6th grade, usually around 20 kids in the class, try that on for size! I think we ended up with 14 of us going through all 12 grades together!

Breakfast, dinner & supper here & school food was generally nasty!

It amazes me what some people think is good food now-a-days, I think it's mostly because many have never had "good food"!