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Fish Ketchup == Garum no?
Ketchup ... Hunts makes a very good and palatable ketchup sans High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Saltines ... My grandmother told me about leaving home made saltines (hardtack) and Peanut butter out on the porch for hobos or whatever they’re called in England.
I love Peanut Butter on saltine crackers as a mid morning snack, my dogs agree with my choice when they can stop licking the roof of their mouths.
Hot dogs. Mashed potatoes. Hamburgers. Pizza. Fried chicken. Popcorn. Apple pie. Chocolate chip cookies.
They missed a few, here.
Many of these same staples are what kept me full during my college years. My parents didn’t know and didn’t have to know how little food there was. I was happy to be living in a dorm with new people. You learn to become resourceful when then money is tight. I experimented with mixing link sausage, raisins, nutmeg and almonds into my basmati rice. My family would never have permitted that back in Michigan without a lot of fake shock and complaining.
Indeed. I like to mix in honey and raisins.
What?
No Spam?
Let’s add mayonnaise to the list.
There is another mistake here; Colombo Yogurt from Methuen MA was the first commercial yogurt brand in US. It began in 1929.
The family name was Colombosian, which is Armenian. There are still many Armenian families living in the Merrimack valley. In my youth, along the fertile banks of the river, they were the farmers, and very successful. To this day, the crop farmers that remain are from Armenian decent.
Now Colombo yogurt is a General Mills company using the brand Yoplait.
When I was in college in the ‘70’s, there was a yogurt price war. There was Dannon, Colombo, and a few others that were ubiquitous. I think the regular price for 8-oz cups was about 6 for a buck but on occasion the price would be 8 or even 10 for a buck. Colombo was my favorite because they used whole milk, less sugar, and added milk solids for substance. Many people liked Dannon because of the sweetness though.
When I got out of college I answered a help wanted ad for an industrial engineer/supervisor so I replied and made a visit. The owner(s) were John Colombo and his CFO (they just sold to a French outfit for $millions). They hired me. It was a start-up plastics company.
During the time we were together I had many conversations with both of them and it was very interesting. John Colombo was the logistics manager, delivery guy, truck driver. (they had many drivers and trucks though as they filled up about 8 or ten a day making two runs a day to NY City area and beyond all the way to Chicago and Atlanta.)
The CFO said if they made yogurt like Dannon they would have made more money because low fat milk and sugar costs much less than whole milk and milk solids. Their brand was strong though. If I remember right, they were lucky to make a penny-and-a-half per serving net profit.
The origins of Ketchup are Chinese? I think its origins are found in India.
There is one more historical fact that I thought might be interesting and certainly show how things were different 35 years ago.
The CFO I mentioned had very serious production/sales/delivery goals for each week. He had to sweat receiving the raw materials (trucks from VT dairies delivering at regular intervals) the cups and lids, and the other ingredients as they made and used much more than could be stored on-site each day. He had to sweat the cleanliness and working order of the dairy itself. The packing lines could not break down. He had to rely on the men and supervisors to maintain such a tight schedule.
He would on occasion, when all goals were met, send out a short truck to how many supermarkets was necessary to buy a case of beer for each employee. He would have it delivered about a half an hour before the end of the shift and they would drink until they punched out, taking the rest home with them (presumably drinking and driving; but in NH, it was not against the law then).
Can anyone imagine any successful company doing that today?
Fig Newtons were very popular when I was growing up. Seemed that everybody had them in their lunch boxes at school. I think parents thought they were a health food because they had real fruit in them.
One little item, though -- In 1903, the California Fish Company figured out steaming tuna made it white and removed most of the oil that made it taste so "fishy."
Ummmmmmmmm ... tuna is white when it's albacore. It isn't white because it got steamed to be that way. I think what really happened is they figured out how to can tuna in a tin can instead of in jars, and smart people loved it -- top-notch protein source on hand easily. Every cupboard should have several cans of tuna, preferably albacore!
Another one they might have missed is canned peaches, which were around in the mid to late 1800s in America. Canned peaches were a real treat for Western pioneers, and even now it’s a treat just to wantonly open up a can of peaches and gobble them down! Up to then, stuff had to be canned in jars — heavy and breakable, hard to transport. When canning was accomplished in light-weight unbreakable tin cans — whoa, nelly!
Haven’t had so much as a spoonful of Danon yogurt; why bother, its pasteurized, thus totally lacks the benefit of real yogurt.
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Campbell’s soup? - Yuck!
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