Posted on 12/28/2018 10:42:48 AM PST by sodpoodle
Remember Slow Food?
'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, or sneakers , 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 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 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 a gut 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 (that was our hair product) 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.
Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really good
O L D FRIENDS
God bless, my Senior FRiends.
I remember EVERYTHING that he mentioned.
That says it all about me.
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Guess I am older than dirt.
Once you get to a certain age, this posting will seem new. Thank you my FRiend!
Me, too. Even the first pizza.
We ate fruits when they were in season - I remember being excited by orange and banana season, an expensive special treat.
Well I’m not actually older than dirt, but because I grew up in a really small town I score as such because we were still using a lot of those things till they fell apart and we didn’t have any other choice....THEN the real stuggle began trying to find out how to work the “new fangled” thing.
****’Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?’****
I suspect the ‘someone’ was his grandson and was the inspiration for the reverie.
“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.”
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LOl yes, I did remember that. My very first GF, I told her not to call certain hours because there were 6 people in the house and they all want to use the phone, and they might listen to our sweet somethings
I even got busted by my Mom one time escaping out the window to go to her house and she heard the plan from the phone haha
Paper boy route rang true here, had 2 one at 5AM and one aft school 3/4 PM.
Collecting was a trip. Still have a few of those little paper tabs you tore off and gave to the customer and the “tippers” were always remembered.
Usta take my dog in the AM but was made to stop cause he raised to much AM hell with the other dogs and cats on my rural route
Thanks
That’s great!
Anybody remember TV remotes that used audio, not infrared light?
Red/amber/green lights you put in the back of the car. It shone red when you were braking, green when you were rolling along, and amber when you slowed down.
I still make my own meals 99% of the time. Learned how to cook by helping my mother-the best cook I know.
We raised our own veggies, meat (chicken, pork, beef) and the eggs were awesome , much better than store bought.
We do eat out now, but at trusted places and there are not many.
We rarely had soda pop in the house when I was a kid. It was a treat to have a pop on occasion.
Phone hung on the wall. TV had a knob to get up and turn. TV was not vile filth like today, hard to find anything of worth now. Ready to shoot the dang thing.
Americans were proud of America, and if not that person was shunned.
We have 6 more years, God willing, to steer this ship in the right direction.
May God have mercy and show His Grace to us.
Just barely got in with 16 of the 25. But do I get extra credit for having used the soldering irons mentioned above?
Never laid my hands on a
Peashooter but
Hula-Hoops were Mine!
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
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I remember Starter Switches on the floor...............
Favorite is #6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Our local dairy that delivered the milk to our galvanized milk box on the front steps put red cellophane wrapper over the mouth of the bottle with the cardboard stopper. We used to love using the cellophane to make red glasses out of bits of wire and Elmer's Glue (Hi Elsie!)
Our TV had a voice remote.
Dad: Get up and change the channel!................And turn the damned volume down!.....................
Forget the BS!
ALL OF IT!
REMEMBER TRUTH!
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Never Forget To Laugh!
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My dad would have knocked my damn head off If I said something like that.
:)
Yep, Older then Dirt, do to my Husbands collectors fever still have many of those articles on a shelf in Living Room. Grandchildren know what they all are including the small jukeboxes that sit in the Booths. Life has been good,
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