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 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,
nevertraveled 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 9.
(Ours was a 7" screen jcs) and 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 21 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-- I
delivered a newspaper, 7 days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got
to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at6AM every morning. On
Saturday, I had to collect the 49 cents from my customers. My favorite customers
were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My 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 orgrandchildren
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 Colabottle. 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 tableside juke boxes
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.
Don't
forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your reallyOLD friends
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