When you went for a car trip, a bus trip, a train trip, whatever, you brought homemade sandwiches, because there was NO FOOD outside the house.
Found these two old bottles in the woods the other day, I'm guessing from the 50s. They are very heavy thick glass. The smaller 8oz bottle says "Bar Harbor Bottling Works", no indication of what it contained, the larger one with the broken neck appears to be a milk jug bottle from a dairy farm that was not far from where I found them, " Fogg Dairy Farm Bar Harbor"
..and you "parked" your bike on the sidewalk w/the kick stand..... and it was still there when you came out.
This was "foreign" food in our house. Anyone else remember this: This was one of my moms goto, I'm exhausted tonight dinners. I loved it.
Back in the 50's our main meals, dinner and supper, were taters and gravy with some meat to go with it. Got tired of that then it was pancakes and sausage. Sunday dinners were usually fried chicken (we had to kill the birds and clean them first, or course) with mashed potatoes and gravy alone with Mom's great biscuits. Because we were dairy farmers, we always had milk with the meals.
Yup...............remember doing a few 3 hour stints in solitary dining room confinement. damm peas and lima beans !!!!!!!!!!! I still can't stand them.
I like cube steaks still. My great grandparents ate them a lot. We would have them chicken fried usually.
One of my favorites is Chicken Fried Steak- cube steak dipped in egg/milk, covered in flour with salt & pepper mixed in and then fried in a cast iron skillet. Make homemade gravy and.....yum. Chicken Fried Steak!
I like peas. And I like carrots. But the frozen peas n’ carrots mixed together was my Kryptonite. It just tasted different, and it was the cause of my sitting at the dinner table by myself for looong periods of time...
my grandmother always brought that for Sunday dinner at mom and dad's. I could never understand why you'd put carrots in orange jello ... I remember my grandmother making Watergate salad but can't remember what it was. Anyone else remember Waldorf salad? Haven't had it in a couple years, but I like it. Maybe I'll make some. Pretty simple
Everything's relative. If your dad had to do the cooking for a while and he wasn't so good at it TV dinners were pretty good.
I think we may be related I will eat them smothered in butter and salt and pepper if that's what's for supper, but... I remember a school principal telling me I had to eat my peas one time. probably 3rd grade. I took one bite and almost puked. No. No I didn't. They went right in the empty milk carton
