DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

I'm so old that ...

Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti.

Curry was a surname.

Taco? Never saw one till I was 15.

All chips were plain.

Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.

Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.

Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

Chickens didn't have fingers in those days.

None of us had ever heard of yogurt.

Healthy food consisted of anything edible!

Cooking outside was called camping.

Seaweed was not a recognized food.

'Kebab' was not even a word... never mind a food.

Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.

Prunes were medicinal and stewed.


Surprisingly Muesli was readily available. It was called cattle feed.

Pineapples came in chunks or were round with a hole in the middle, in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.

Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than gasoline for it, they would have become a laughing stock.

There were three things that we never ever had on/at our table in the fifties . . . elbows, hats and cell phones!

.......and there was always two choices for each meal... "Take it" or Leave it"

le boecere

Most EXCELLENT! Thank you!

clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa

I’m so old my social security number is in Roman Numerals.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I'm so old that my phone didn't have a dial and 8 track hadn't been invented yet when I watched the black and white TV with tin foil on top of the rabbit ears

(But I'm not so old that TV hadn't been invented yet).

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I have never seen a Taco.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Yep, you must be pretty old, because I enjoyed yoghurt and Kebab's in the early 60's!

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Hell - 8-track was new technology! I'm so old I built a crystal radio (some of you can look that up) and was thrilled when "transistor radios" came out - I had one with SEVEN transistors!

ed2056 Loc: Warwick, RI

Brilliant!!

Bobc163 Loc: Australia NSW

Can definitely remember building crystal sets and listening to them with an earphone piece 😀

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Yeah, you’re talking about me, Harry, all but for the green tea. I’m 76, and my grandmother was drinking green tea before I was born.

Thanks for posting.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Yep, me too!

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

I'm so old that I remember when B&W TV's came on the commercial market - Had just entered what was then Junior High - 7th grade.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

I'm almost that old, I remember when yogurt was called Dannon!

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

Do you remember when "Oleo-margin" was solid only by grocers that had bought a license, came only in white and had a yellow powder pack that you mixed with it to make it look more like butter. All compartments of the national diary lobby? I was also pre-dial phone child ... we'd pick up the phone and told an operator the number we wanted. My cousin, who live in Northport Michigan, had a crank phone on the wall that you'd crank and tell the operator who you wanted you wanted to talk to... no number just a name. Phone book was a one page list of peoples names.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Our phone as a kid was Chester Heights 33 Ring 4