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К : Cindy Hamilton 30 сен 23 22:22:02
Тема : Re: Oven cleaner & Sylvania 30 Watt 120VAC bulb (LED?)
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:00 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> For $40 a pound I want something off an Angus and dry aged. My
>> standards were set in the `50s.
>
> We prefer to learn as we go. Otherwise we`d be eating fish sticks, just
> as we did when we were children.
it`s been ages but I had a thing for McDonald`s Filet-O-Fish to the extent
of rolling my own, one of the few times I deep fried anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filet-O-Fish
I didn`t realize it started as a Catholic thing.
> I can`t remember anything before Vatican II. I can`t remember what we
> ate on Fridays, so maybe it wasn`t anything special. We were a house
> full of heathens. I do remember going to the occasional Lenten fish
> fry.
I was a high school junior when it got rolling. `American Graffiti`
resonates with me. I was a happy heathen up to 7 or 8 and had worked out
my own animistic world view. Then one Boy Scout week when they were
talking about going to church with your parents I asked the fatal question
`What is this church thing?" and it was off to the races, with `religious
instruction` on Wednesday. When a little old Irish nun asked me to recite
one of the commandments and realized I didn`t know there were ten of them
let alone any specifics, she called me a little heathen. She didn`t know
how right she was.
In general my extended family didn`t pay too much attention to religion
and excessive religiosity was viewed as mental illness. Most kids were
baptized Catholic just in case. The theology didn`t stick but there is a
cultural Catholic thing. My wife was raised Methodist but tended to go
church shopping based on the community and other factors I couldn`t
understand. At least back then the Catholic Church was like McDonalds. If
you were on vacation and went to Mass in East Moosenuts Missouri it was
going to be the same liturgy, same vestments, same readings, and, please,
no spontaneous outbursts or singing. There might be a choir at High Mass;
please do not join in with the people who can actually sing.
> Come to think of it, Tuesday was our day to eat fish. Grandma had the
> day off work, so she went to the fishmonger, bought some sort of white
> lake fish, breaded it in cornflake crumbs and pan fried it until it was
> dry as dust. Thus began my tartar sauce addiction, which I was able to
> conquer in adulthood.
Jean`s Ready To Eat specialized in takeout fried fish so my mother left it
to the pros. Sometimes there would be a pan fried selection of stuff we
caught, perch, sunfish, bullheads, and so forth. I liked fishing but
didn`t care for much of the catch except the bullheads.
Salmon pea wiggle on toast came up regularly and was pretty good.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/49717/salmon-pea-wiggle/
I don`t remember the circumstances but at one point canned red salmon went
from being fairly cheap to very expensive and hard to come by. Pink salmon
was considered cat food.
I don`t remember my mother ever making it but `pasta fazoo` was another
popular Friday selection or if push came to shove corn fritters or
pancakes.
> And paychecks were much smaller. Food (in general) takes a smaller
> percentage of one`s income nowadays. In 1900, it was 40% of income; in
> 1950, it was 30%. In 2022, it was 11.3%.
My father somehow came up with a hundred dollar bill and it was an object
of wonderment. I don`t often use credit cards for local purchases and most
often use 20s from the ATM but I think there are 3 or 4 hundreds in my
wallet just in case.
Both my parents worked and I remember my father bringing home about $100 a
week in the `50s and my mother getting about the same. They owned their
own home, ate well including going out to fairly fancy restaurants
occasionally, bought new cars regularly, took vacations sometimes renting
cottages in Maine or Cape Cod for a week or two and so forth. There were
some sketchy periods like during the Eisenhower recession but I never felt
deprived or that the family was on the edge of disaster.
I can`t speak for the average blue collar family today.
--- Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba)
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