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Fast Food ?
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Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,?
I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at Home,'' I explained.
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore.??
Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers--my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 5 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 1 cents.?? He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 35 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Just don't blame me if they bust out laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water??
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes??
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels..[if you were fortunate)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15.S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22.Cork?popguns??
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older??
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,?
I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at Home,'' I explained.
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore.??
Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers--my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 5 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 1 cents.?? He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 35 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Just don't blame me if they bust out laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water??
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes??
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels..[if you were fortunate)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15.S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22.Cork?popguns??
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older??
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Comments
I'm dirt.
Most would agree
We only had one tv channel, the tv was turned off after the evening news, except on Fri and Sat nights when we watched cowboy shows. Sun night we could watch Disney.
I truly miss those simpler times.
16 when I first tasted pizza. My dad called it ?piza?.
25 when I first ate a taco.
I miss the cars and trucks with the swing out vent windows.
I do NOT miss vacuum windshield wipers.
Hand me downs, yep
Wringer washer , yep
Got a TV, for like 7 dollars at he TV REPAIR store, lol, no such thing about anymore.
First"fast food" was my brother came home after he moved out and got a good paying job came back and took us all to Dog & Suds, WOW , what a memory!
Got to watch the old TV westerns after mom watched Peyton Place,,Sugarfoot, Maverick, Branded ect.
I could go on and on, but enough. :oops:
Yeah, I'm old!!!
So old, I helped log out the Sahara Forest. You call it it the Sahara Desert today....
Years ago if you had a TV antenna on the roof , it means you're rich enuff to own a TV.
Today it means you're too poor to have cable.
"Ignition switches on the dashboard."..........and the little 'silver' button you had to push to start the car
to make a phone call you had to lift the hand set and listen for the operator to ask you for the # you wanted to call (if no one else was on the line)
Anybody remember when the starter was a round pedal on the transmission hump?
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vpSLbYUHVY
How about the starter was on the " foot feed" and had to put your foot all the way down to get it started. Think it was on a Kaiser or?
I got hand-me-ups...
From my sister.
Mom used to send me out for fast food all the time -- rabbit and squirrel.
Many times there was no meat to go with whatever came from the garden, if I didn't shoot it. I got pretty good at it too.
I hate tomato pudding because lots of time that was all we had. And I was the guy that planted, hoed, watered and picked 'em.
I also hate water gravy! Phhhht!
https://gardenandgun.com/recipe/southern-classic-tomato-pudding/
There were a lot of meals where no meat was on the table but all tasted good to me and I never remember going hungry! Heck, the biscuits & poor mans gravy stuck to your ribs REAL good! We even ate pheasant once in a while which back in the day was considered rich mans fare. We shot our own and mom never served it "under glass". Quite a bit of wild game on the table and I remember having a small empty dish on the side that was needed to put the lead shot in after you bit down on it during the meal! Didn't see my first dentist until I was in the USAF. I still retain all of my teeth but 2. Genetic you know!
I came from a very big farm family. There were a dozen of us kids and I was somewhere in the middle. Hand me downs were just the way it was back then. Never had to go without clean cloths daily. Mom slaved over the wringer washer. Underwear was always new, no hand me downs there, but we did have this big communal sock can that you had to sort for matches and correct size!
Bicycles and toys were also hand me downs and by the time I got my first bike, I was only a year or so shy of getting my drivers license! 8-)
I would not trade my childhood for all the tea in China! 1956 was the year I was born. Classic time!
Push button auto transmissions.
Motorcycles that had pedals.
New plastic shotgun shells.
20GA shotgun shells that were red or green.
Buying .22 shorts because they were cheaper than longs or long rifle.
Now its fast times at Ridgemont High and faster foods.
To make matters worse fast food is processed and not good for you.
Wire racks holding quart oil bottles (glass) between the gas pumps. The bottles held recycled oil - all straight 30W - and the galvanized caps were pour spouts. You'd check your oil every fillup because you'd need a quart about every other time. Gas ran 29 cents a gallon or less, and was fully leaded. Engines required an oil change every thousand miles, and cars had 6V electric systems.
Every school desk had an inkwell. An ink pen meant a fountain pen with a rubber ink bladder that you filled using a tiny lever on the side of the pen.
You were a cool kid if you had a Davy Crockett coonskin cap or a Roy Rogers double holster rig. You were super cool and probably rich if you had both. Every boy had a BB gun, then a .22 rifle. Every household had a break open single barrel shotgun. Shells were waxed paper and roll crimped. Hunting loads were high brass 3?-1?-6.
It was not at all uncommon for homes to have working outhouses as their only "facility." With last year's Sears catalog hanging on a nail for wiping paper.
Speaking of Sears catalogs, their bra and girdle ads were the source of "porn" for most boys. (Yes, women actually wore girdles, too.)