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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:02 am • # 1 
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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...


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:38 pm • # 2 
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:lol :lol Thanks, Cliff. you brightened up a cold, sleety afternoon here.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we had the same two choices growing up at my house, too. ;)

I would add two other concepts unknown in the 50s, at least in my circle: Brunch, and Appetizers. Imagine a) missing breakfast, and b) having something to eat before you eat?

Take some time to walk around a 'whole food' store sometime. Its all the stuff that used to be called 'food'.
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(oh, crap. we're old)


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:56 pm • # 3 
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And who said the old days were better?


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 7:21 am • # 4 
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And who said the old days were better?


:lol A whole bunch of people. I just can't remember their names any more.... or their faces...or where I put that list.....what were we talking about?


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 7:35 am • # 5 
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linecaster wrote:
And who said the old days were better?


:lol A whole bunch of people. I just can't remember their names any more.... or their faces...or where I put that list.....what were we talking about?


Is this what happens when short-term memory loss goes long-term?


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:38 am • # 6 
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Is this what happens when short-term memory loss goes long-term?


:applause That just could be! Best take that up with the original poster. I think his name is Clive Hogwarts, or something like that. He's WAY older than me. I understand he was a pallbearer at Sir Isaac Walton's funeral. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:16 pm • # 7 
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wheezeburnt wrote:
PampasPete wrote:
Is this what happens when short-term memory loss goes long-term?


:applause That just could be! Best take that up with the original poster. I think his name is Clive Hogwarts, or something like that. He's WAY older than me. I understand he was a pallbearer at Sir Isaac Walton's funeral. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else?
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I knew you'd get a kick out of my post, Charlie, er Sam, er Pete, whatever your name is. I remember that I knew it several days ago, but that was last year, I think. Sir Issac Walton was long after me, I was well over 1000 years old when he died. I was a pallbearer at King Hezekiah's funeral, though.

Ah yes, appetizers! A long forgotten tradition and a great way to sit down, relax with a glass of liquor before dinner. Then, of course, a glass of brandy afterwards. Brunch was also another great way to spend a late Sunday morning meal, with mimosas beforehand (and maybe during and after the meal ;) ) Those were the good old days before I got so old. :\


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:30 pm • # 8 
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:lol :lol


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:04 pm • # 9 
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Cliff Hilbert wrote:
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...

I think you have lived a sheltered life.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:33 am • # 10 
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Everything was fried. In Crisco.
Fried chicken.
Fried steak.
Fried pork chops. Chops had actual fat in them back then.
Fried hamburgers (hand formed, not bought as patties)
French fries.
Home fries.
Fried fish.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:35 pm • # 11 
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On a different continent, similar rules no hats on inside especially not at the meal table, chew with mouth closed and elbows off the table. British colonial.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:21 pm • # 12 
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linecaster wrote:
On a different continent, similar rules no hats on inside especially not at the meal table, chew with mouth closed and elbows off the table. British colonial.


That sounds like Uptown New Orleans where I was raised, Eric.

Of course cellphones didn't exist back then, neither did telemarketers calling at dinnertime or any other time. Ah, the good old days! Doctors even made house calls in those days. :eek


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:17 pm • # 13 
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As recently as 1985, I was on a party line with a couple of neighbours, including a baptist minister across the road. By nature of his occupation, he received a LOT of the call traffic. Once, the phone rang during our evening meal; wasn't our ring, so we let it go. A respectable time after supper hour, the minister phoned up and apologized for his receiving a call that rang in to our house during our meal.
He's long gone, and so are the party lines, but I hope never to leave this rural community.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:19 pm • # 14 
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Cell phones replace talking by communicating by texting to each other around the table. Or is it quiet time whilst catching up with internet news. Good old days no such distractions.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:58 pm • # 15 
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"He's long gone, and so are the party lines, but I hope never to leave this rural community."

Brent, Pearow lives in a small town in East Texas with only one red light. He told his wife many years ago that he would move to another town if they ever installed a second light, because the town would be getting too big. :eek


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:43 pm • # 16 
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Haven't seen Pearow on the forum in a long time. Pearow has a very interesting post of experiencing a tornado on a lake while he and a friend were fishing the lake in a boat.


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