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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:04:31 AM EST
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Jiffy Pop popcorn
Baked Beans & Hot dogs Canned soup |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:05:58 AM EST
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TV Time popcorn.
It has its own oil right in the pack with it. There was also a desert called Whip&Chill. 
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:07:43 AM EST
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood You and I are the same age. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:08:55 AM EST
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:09:22 AM EST
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood FPNI Microwaves have been around for a long time, but before they became popular, TV dinners were probably "the thing". |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:10:03 AM EST
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The "hotdogger"........ Basically a device for heating hot dogs through electrocution!! Anyone remember those?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUAkezGstlQ
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:11:15 AM EST
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We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. I remember when White Castles were 6 cents each. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:12:13 AM EST
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Cold cuts and a loaf of bread. I miss the old days where you had a ton of country general stores - what are now called convenience stores. You could go in and order a lunch meat or ham sandwich, with whatever bread they had, and whatever condiments there were. I guess they are called Subway's now, but they sure don't taste the same. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:12:48 AM EST
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This. We'd have them all the time when one or the other of my parents had to work nights. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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TV Dinners in foil. This. We'd have them all the time when one or the other of my parents had to work nights. I used to love these things. I haven't had one in YEARS. The chicken used to be nice and crispy and pretty large. No so much anymore. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:13:21 AM EST
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Microwaves have been around awhile now. I remember a salesman leaving one at our house back in the 60's
when I was about 7 or 8 and I promptly blew up an egg in the shell to hard boil one.  |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:15:22 AM EST
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I miss the old days where you had a ton of country general stores - what are now called convenience stores. You could go in and order a lunch meat or ham sandwich, with whatever bread they had, and whatever condiments there were. I guess they are called Subway's now, but they sure don't taste the same. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cold cuts and a loaf of bread. I miss the old days where you had a ton of country general stores - what are now called convenience stores. You could go in and order a lunch meat or ham sandwich, with whatever bread they had, and whatever condiments there were. I guess they are called Subway's now, but they sure don't taste the same. When I worked way out in the country years ago on a project there was this hold over general store where we ate lunch. The building had to be built around the turn of the century. Country ham with tomato and mayo on hand sliced thick white bread for like $3. So. Damn. Good. Homemade Navy Bean soup out of a crock pot.
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:16:30 AM EST
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We had all the same stuff, but I bet I lose you here......Stretch Monster. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood Oh yes, this. All of this. Remember the skin on his arm that you could roll up to see his bionics? And there was a tiny window in the back of his head that you could look through to see the world through his eye. I felt stronger after looking through. Yep. And you could pull the "modules" from his arms. Had the capsules and a ton of big GI Joe stuff, too. Joe had a cool orange helicopter. I'd line all that shit up and crank ol' Evel up and let him jump it. Of course, Evel always had a wire broken in one of his arms, so his dumb ass would be waving at the crowd in mid air. We had all the same stuff, but I bet I lose you here......Stretch Monster. Nope...had Stretch Armstrong and the Stretch Monster. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:18:59 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Microwaves have been around awhile now. I remember a salesman leaving one at our house back in the 60'swhen I was about 7 or 8 and I promptly blew up an egg in the shell to hard boil one. https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/spaces/oct-25-first-microwave-ovens-were-sold-day-155936710.html?ref=gs |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:19:15 AM EST
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My parents got a microwave as a wedding present in 1978 (they were very expensive back then). Microwave cooking was kind of a fad back then, right up there with fondue pots.
These days, we just use them to re-heat leftovers or whatever sad sack "dinner" we purchased in the frozen foods section. But for a while there, people actually cooked entire meals in the things. From raw ingredients. My parents had a full color glossy microwave cookbook, full of recipes for this new futuristic way of cooking. Their microwave had a built in temperature probe and everything. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen, in retrospect. My parents were married in '78 as well and, just like yours, got a microwave as a wedding present. I remember them fondly talking about fondue as well, LOL. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:21:22 AM EST
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We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:24:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:25:41 AM EST
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Yeah, it was more of a sit-down pizza place with beer for your parents, kind of like shakeys. Red plastic cups and red and white vinyl table cloths. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. And a sitdown pac-man machine. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:27:13 AM EST
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Wasn't Pizza Hut the one with stuff to color for kids on the back of the menu?
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:29:53 AM EST
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I can remember eating White Castle and McDonald's before we got our first microwave. It was massive and woodgrained lol.
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:33:12 AM EST
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Wasn't Pizza Hut the one with stuff to color for kids on the back of the menu? No, you're thinking of every restaurant, ever. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:35:34 AM EST
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We didn't get a microwave till 85 and only because we won it in a church raffle. It was made by Litton, which I believe also made radars for the military.
Hot dogs, eggs, pop corn, we were in high cotton. Before that, nothing was worse than being 9 years old and waiting for your frozen pot pie to come out of the oven, only to have it burned on the outside and still cold inside. When I was 6 I burned the shit out of my self accidentally sticking my arm on an electric burner while making dinner inquiries with my mother. Damn I was hungry. When I left home to go to college, I was so sick of eating baked chicken thighs. I still won't buy them. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:38:05 AM EST
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Nope...had Stretch Armstrong and the Stretch Monster. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood Oh yes, this. All of this. Remember the skin on his arm that you could roll up to see his bionics? And there was a tiny window in the back of his head that you could look through to see the world through his eye. I felt stronger after looking through. Yep. And you could pull the "modules" from his arms. Had the capsules and a ton of big GI Joe stuff, too. Joe had a cool orange helicopter. I'd line all that shit up and crank ol' Evel up and let him jump it. Of course, Evel always had a wire broken in one of his arms, so his dumb ass would be waving at the crowd in mid air. We had all the same stuff, but I bet I lose you here......Stretch Monster. Nope...had Stretch Armstrong and the Stretch Monster. SPOILED BRAT!!! 
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:38:08 AM EST
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood lol sounds just like when I stayed at my grandma's house for the weekend's Only with transformer toys |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:38:51 AM EST
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My parents got a microwave as a wedding present in 1978 (they were very expensive back then). Microwave cooking was kind of a fad back then, right up there with fondue pots.
These days, we just use them to re-heat leftovers or whatever sad sack "dinner" we purchased in the frozen foods section. But for a while there, people actually cooked entire meals in the things. From raw ingredients. My parents had a full color glossy microwave cookbook, full of recipes for this new futuristic way of cooking. Their microwave had a built in temperature probe and everything. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen, in retrospect. Triggered me on the fondue pots, mom was in love with the things. How any of us made it thru childhood without massive burn scars i'll never know. 
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:40:20 AM EST
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No, you're thinking of every restaurant, ever. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wasn't Pizza Hut the one with stuff to color for kids on the back of the menu? No, you're thinking of every restaurant, ever. lol...yep. I think everyone from Virginia Diner to Red Lobster had coloring "place mats" for us. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:42:11 AM EST
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SPOILED BRAT!!!
At 9 year old, I had two gigs: -Aluminum can gathering -Saturday mornings, I got 20 bucks to clean the football stadium of all trash from the night before That was big money in 1978. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:43:49 AM EST
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Triggered me on the fondue pots, mom was in love with the things. How any of us made it thru childhood without massive burn scars i'll never know. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My parents got a microwave as a wedding present in 1978 (they were very expensive back then). Microwave cooking was kind of a fad back then, right up there with fondue pots.
These days, we just use them to re-heat leftovers or whatever sad sack "dinner" we purchased in the frozen foods section. But for a while there, people actually cooked entire meals in the things. From raw ingredients. My parents had a full color glossy microwave cookbook, full of recipes for this new futuristic way of cooking. Their microwave had a built in temperature probe and everything. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen, in retrospect. Triggered me on the fondue pots, mom was in love with the things. How any of us made it thru childhood without massive burn scars i'll never know. My parents busted theirs out a few times in the 80's, when I was a kid. The pot was a lovely earth toned puke brown color.
I actually liked it quite a bit. They only broke it out a handful of times. If I remember it right, we dipped toasted pieces of French bread into a fancy melted cheese base, doctored up with whatever, on the end of long bamboo-handled fondue forks. And yes, I can still clearly remember the burns on the roof of my mouth. 
I've actually been nostalgic enough lately, that I've thought of doing it for dinner one night. 
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:49:12 AM EST
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I had the green stretch monster. It actually got a bit more pliable if you put it in grandma and grandpas microwave for about 45 seconds. Tried dozens of times to put it under the tire of dads car, he was wise to it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood Oh yes, this. All of this. Remember the skin on his arm that you could roll up to see his bionics? And there was a tiny window in the back of his head that you could look through to see the world through his eye. I felt stronger after looking through. Yep. And you could pull the "modules" from his arms. Had the capsules and a ton of big GI Joe stuff, too. Joe had a cool orange helicopter. I'd line all that shit up and crank ol' Evel up and let him jump it. Of course, Evel always had a wire broken in one of his arms, so his dumb ass would be waving at the crowd in mid air. We had all the same stuff, but I bet I lose you here......Stretch Monster. Yeah, we were hard on that poor bastard. Tied him to a branch and left him in the tree for a couple weeks - every morning I'd get outta bed and look out the window to see if he was still there, shot him many times with a BB gun (gun was too weak to puncture), had my brother run over him a bunch in his van (did absolutely nothing to him), but freezing him was the end of the line. Took him out of the freezer in the morning and of course had to try to bend him, which cracked his leg. Tried to cauterize the wound with matches, but my friend got some hot monster blood on his hands and wailed so loud that my mom came running and made us quit. Dad gave us permission to put him in a shoebox, dig a hole and bury him under the clothesline in the back yard, where he still rests peacefully. 
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:52:08 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood FPNI |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:52:09 AM EST
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At 9 year old, I had two gigs: -Aluminum can gathering -Saturday mornings, I got 20 bucks to clean the football stadium of all trash from the night before That was big money in 1978. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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SPOILED BRAT!!!
At 9 year old, I had two gigs: -Aluminum can gathering -Saturday mornings, I got 20 bucks to clean the football stadium of all trash from the night before That was big money in 1978. Holy balls, $20 was major coinage back then. For $10 you could waltz into Montgomery Ward and buy pretty much any toy you wanted. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:55:05 AM EST
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Hot dogs, Macaroni and Cheese from a box mix, Spaghetti Os...
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:56:30 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My parents busted theirs out a few times in the 80's, when I was a kid. The pot was a lovely earth toned puke brown color. I actually liked it quite a bit. They only broke it out a handful of times. If I remember it right, we dipped toasted pieces of French bread into a fancy melted cheese base, doctored up with whatever, on the end of long bamboo-handled fondue forks. And yes, I can still clearly remember the burns on the roof of my mouth. I've actually been nostalgic enough lately, that I've thought of doing it for dinner one night. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: My parents got a microwave as a wedding present in 1978 (they were very expensive back then). Microwave cooking was kind of a fad back then, right up there with fondue pots. These days, we just use them to re-heat leftovers or whatever sad sack "dinner" we purchased in the frozen foods section. But for a while there, people actually cooked entire meals in the things. From raw ingredients. My parents had a full color glossy microwave cookbook, full of recipes for this new futuristic way of cooking. Their microwave had a built in temperature probe and everything. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen, in retrospect. I actually liked it quite a bit. They only broke it out a handful of times. If I remember it right, we dipped toasted pieces of French bread into a fancy melted cheese base, doctored up with whatever, on the end of long bamboo-handled fondue forks. And yes, I can still clearly remember the burns on the roof of my mouth. I've actually been nostalgic enough lately, that I've thought of doing it for dinner one night. We have two fondue pots. One is electric and one uses sterno. We may have gotten rid of the sterno one, because it sucked. We also have a small crock pot that works great for melting chocolate for dessert fondues. We haven't done it in a while, but we've done fondue parties with our friends at least a dozen times since we got married. It's kinda fun. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:56:57 AM EST
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Holy balls, $20 was major coinage back then. For $10 you could waltz into Montgomery Ward and buy pretty much any toy you wanted. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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SPOILED BRAT!!!
At 9 year old, I had two gigs: -Aluminum can gathering -Saturday mornings, I got 20 bucks to clean the football stadium of all trash from the night before That was big money in 1978. Holy balls, $20 was major coinage back then. For $10 you could waltz into Montgomery Ward and buy pretty much any toy you wanted. True, but it represented picking up a whole lot of frito pie wrappers and spitcups. Nasty shit. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:04:27 PM EST
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Baked fish sticks, Mac n cheese, Totinos pizzas & baked burritos with lots of butter. Oh and the foil TV dinners.
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:06:39 PM EST
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80s. I never saw or heard of one until the late 70s, and they were expensive then. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wow, we have a lot of old farts here!!! (considering that microwaves became common in the 1960s)We bought our first microwave in 1983. It cost $700.00. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:10:20 PM EST
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Tombstone Pizza.
Totino's egg rolls and pizza rolls. Chicken pot pie and TV dinners. That's what I lived on when I left home. Hot food from the oven, cold beer from the fridge. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:10:22 PM EST
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My parents busted theirs out a few times in the 80's, when I was a kid. The pot was a lovely earth toned puke brown color.
I actually liked it quite a bit. They only broke it out a handful of times. If I remember it right, we dipped toasted pieces of French bread into a fancy melted cheese base, doctored up with whatever, on the end of long bamboo-handled fondue forks. And yes, I can still clearly remember the burns on the roof of my mouth.
I've actually been nostalgic enough lately, that I've thought of doing it for dinner one night. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My parents got a microwave as a wedding present in 1978 (they were very expensive back then). Microwave cooking was kind of a fad back then, right up there with fondue pots.
These days, we just use them to re-heat leftovers or whatever sad sack "dinner" we purchased in the frozen foods section. But for a while there, people actually cooked entire meals in the things. From raw ingredients. My parents had a full color glossy microwave cookbook, full of recipes for this new futuristic way of cooking. Their microwave had a built in temperature probe and everything. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen, in retrospect. Triggered me on the fondue pots, mom was in love with the things. How any of us made it thru childhood without massive burn scars i'll never know. My parents busted theirs out a few times in the 80's, when I was a kid. The pot was a lovely earth toned puke brown color.
I actually liked it quite a bit. They only broke it out a handful of times. If I remember it right, we dipped toasted pieces of French bread into a fancy melted cheese base, doctored up with whatever, on the end of long bamboo-handled fondue forks. And yes, I can still clearly remember the burns on the roof of my mouth.
I've actually been nostalgic enough lately, that I've thought of doing it for dinner one night. Ours was quite fancy, big copper thing with three cans of sterno. We did little cuts of meat and vegetables. (Quite exciting if there was any moisture on the veggies) The biggest drawback was, it took so long and the pieces had to be so small that you starved to death during food production.
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:13:48 PM EST
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No, you're thinking of every restaurant, ever. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wasn't Pizza Hut the one with stuff to color for kids on the back of the menu? No, you're thinking of every restaurant, ever. lol
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:14:21 PM EST
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We bought our first microwave in 1983. It cost $700.00. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wow, we have a lot of old farts here!!! (considering that microwaves became common in the 1960s)We bought our first microwave in 1983. It cost $700.00. I think we got ours in 1980. Montgomery Ward brand and my parents used it until they retired it to the basement in 1995. When I started grad school in 1996, I took it and used it for 4 years. I left it there when I left, and I wouldn't doubt that it still works fine, unless someone chucked it because was ugly and gawdy. They don't build shit like that anymore. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:19:38 PM EST
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baloney sammich. in fact, anything in the house that was food that could peacefully coexist with bread. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:28:54 PM EST
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Oh yes, this. All of this. Remember the skin on his arm that you could roll up to see his bionics? And there was a tiny window in the back of his head that you could look through to see the world through his eye. I felt stronger after looking through. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood Oh yes, this. All of this. Remember the skin on his arm that you could roll up to see his bionics? And there was a tiny window in the back of his head that you could look through to see the world through his eye. I felt stronger after looking through. I had a Bionic Woman with that sort of arm. ;) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:29:03 PM EST
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Slices of baloney fried directly on the electric stove coil.
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:29:21 PM EST
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The first countertop microwaves were sold in 1967. Your grandma was an early adopter! They had them earlier, but they were yuuuge.
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I'm trying to remember when my family got their first microwave, my Grandmother bought it and she died in 1970 when I was 13 and we'd had it for at least 3 or 4 years, so I'm guessing it was 66 or 67. I would have been around 10 or 11 then. But I remember foil tray TV dinners all too well. When I was a kid "fast food" meant Grandma's cooking, usually sandwiches, or if I was lucky, her goulash.
The first countertop microwaves were sold in 1967. Your grandma was an early adopter! They had them earlier, but they were yuuuge.
No joke yuuuuuge. I have an early 70s unit at my camp that must weigh 125lbs is all chrome bezels and such, door folds down like an oven......."Now this was a superior machine. Ten grand worth of gimmicks and high-priced special effects. The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand." |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:41:00 PM EST
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My foggy memory seems to remember sliced beef in gravy and sliced turkey in gravy that came frozen in plastic pouches.
Boil the pouch, cut open and serve over bread or toast for a hot open faced sammich. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:51:13 PM EST
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I remember when White Castles were 6 cents each. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. I remember when White Castles were 6 cents each. I remember five cents. I also remember you had to pay a nickel to use the bathroom. If you were down to your last nickel and had to go, you had hard choices to make. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:51:34 PM EST
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:54:16 PM EST
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And a sitdown pac-man machine. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. And a sitdown pac-man machine. That was the 80's. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:55:32 PM EST
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TV Dinners in foil. http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tv-dinner.jpg Put that shit on a folding tray, turn on some Hee Haw, strew some Six Million Dollar Man toys on the floor and you have my childhood +1 That was it. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:57:10 PM EST
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That was the 80's. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. That reminds me. Whatever happened to the red cups at Pizza Hut, that were filled with crushed ice? It's one of those early childhood memories that sticks with me, for some reason. In the old-school standalone building, too. Thick with cigarette smoke and the faint sounds of pinball machines in the corner. And a sitdown pac-man machine. That was the 80's. Yes, but all the other stuff still applied. At least at our Pizza Hut. That was a night out. |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 12:58:42 PM EST
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I remember five cents. I also remember you had to pay a nickel to use the bathroom. If you were down to your last nickel and had to go, you had hard choices to make. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When I was a young child there was a Chicken Delight that would deliver. There was a Poor Boy sandwich shop. There was also an early Jack In The Box in my neighborhood, with a drive-through window. It was the second one ever built. We did have a KFC, White Castle, Steak and Shake and pizza parlor within reasonable (for the time) walking distance that my folks would send me to for takeout from time to time. A few years later we got an early Jack in the Box too. I remember when White Castles were 6 cents each. I remember five cents. I also remember you had to pay a nickel to use the bathroom. If you were down to your last nickel and had to go, you had hard choices to make. Yep, but the shitters were always spotless too. Ours had the little jukebox right there at the table too.
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