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On 30 Sep 2023 19:17:21 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> 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.
HIGH time for you to make another appointment with your psychiatrist! I`m
sure he has the right pills for you to quiet you down a bit again!
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More of the resident senile gossip`s absolutely idiotic endless blather
about herself:
"My family and I traveled cross country in `52, going out on the northern
route and returning mostly on Rt 66. We also traveled quite a bit as the
interstates were being built. It might have been slower but it was a lot
more interesting. Even now I prefer what William Least Heat-Moon called
the blue highways but it`s difficult. Around here there are remnants of
the Mullan Road as frontage roads but I-90 was laid over most of it so
there is no continuous route. So far 93 hasn`t been destroyed."
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