Oh, how times have changed.
Depends on where you live. In California we had oranges (different varieties) summer and winter.
DoninIL wrote:
Oh, how times have changed.
Not a single note on that list is true!
speters wrote:
Not a single note on that list is true!
Maybe not - but it is pretty close to my experience.
The 1950s was the Dark Age for me. Nuclear War at any time. Under your desk to be safe from an nuclear attack. What is communism? All you need to known is that it is bad. America could not do any wrong. Schools told you to think, but if you did all hell was to pay. Never question what you were told. If you were not WASP you were none. If you had a TV one channel was great. Car were only good for 50,000 miles, if you luck. New cars had that smell that make one sick. What you could eat was control by your mother. Was told that drugs was intercity problem only. Money became God. Do what every to took to got it. Rock & Roll, if not destroy, was to have very tight control over it. To me the Dark Age began to end by the middle 1960s. I was wrong, the dark age is making a come back today in this country.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
speters wrote:
Not a single note on that list is true!
The veracity of these points no doubt depends upon where we grew up - and where our parents grew up! Any of us that remember the 50's were probably kids then, so our parents grew up in the 30's and 40's. My parents grew up in the rural midwest. So - was there curry back then? I wouldn't know - but I know my parents never made it and probably never heard of it. Did we have Indian restaurants in Kansas City in the 50's? Wow - maybe, but they would have been little back-alley family places. When I went off to college and started cooking for myself (and roommates) I quickly learned about curry, yogurt, and other items on that list.
But what I would add to the list:
Asparagus was not a fresh vegetable, it was something awful and slimy in a can. Eggplant was something that was sliced and fried and served either with breakfast or dinner. Bacon grease was kept in a can on the stove for frying and for "seasoning" almost any food!
Pasta is a yuppie word in the USA coming into use in the 1980's . And in NJ and in Brooklyn we call it gravy , not sauce 😉
machia wrote:
Pasta is a yuppie word in the USA coming into use in the 1980's . And in NJ and in Brooklyn we call it gravy , not sauce 😉
Put some gravy on my pasta?? Not in Brooklyn. We called it tomato sauce on our spaghetti.
Can’t agree with most of those. I grew up on a small farm in Indiana (I’m 75 now), and I knew about most of those things. My grandmother, fifty years older than me, taught me about green tea when I was just past being a baby.
machia wrote:
Pasta is a yuppie word in the USA coming into use in the 1980's . And in NJ and in Brooklyn we call it gravy , not sauce 😉
Nonsense! It was all generically called pasta. I heard my Mom every Sunday, announce to my Dad and I (in Sicilian) that the pasta was in the pot, which meant come upstairs. Gravy was the brown stuff that went on pot roast, meat loaf, mashed potatoes and the like. That’s the way it was in Brooklyn USA.
Pasta is a yuppie term .
Italian Americans always said macaroni or spaghetti . Gravy / sauce is up for debate though 😃
DoninIL wrote:
Oh, how times have changed.
My grandparents lived upstairs from a bakery that made pizza all day long, every day. Thick, baked in a blackened pan Sicilian pizza. It was often lunch or our after school snack, one or the other. We had fresh fruit every day, in season, with bananas and oranges being in season year round. We cooked outside at my grandparent’s home in the summer. Spaghetti and macaroni were/are types of pasta and generically, that’s what we called it. Our food was cooked in olive oil, sometimes olive oil and butter. So I guess it depends on where you were from and who you are.
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