Text 11914, 80 rader
Skriven 2014-04-08 19:13:38 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11808 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: food factories
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 05 Apr 14  09:18:02 <=-

 NB>>> I don't even remember mac and cheese growing up... 
 DD>> YIKES - no Mac & Cheese? Not even from a box?
 NB>> The boxed version was too expensive to Daddy's eyes, I suppose.  He
 NB>> would have had to buy lots of boxes to make enough for our large
 NB>> family...  I'm sure that making a proper cheese sauce wasn't one of the
 NB>> options either...  nor using up the amount of cheese it would take.

 DD> When I got married (1966) store-brand/generic boxed Mac & Cheese(oid)

It may also have been that he didn't care for cheeseoid... or maybe even
for Mac&Cheese...  ;)  Dunno... and I can't even ask him any more... ;0

 DD> was 10c a box at the local Eisner's or Kroger. One box would feed two
 DD> people. And with the addition of a pound of hamburger or can of tuna it
 DD> became a real treat. Then a can of cream of mushroom (also
 DD> generic/store brand) could move the hamburger laced M&C into
 DD> budget-gourmet status. Still, if you had 10 people to feed 5 boxes of
 DD> store brand could feed 'em ... and with a bit of garlic salt and some
 DD> pepper would have been pretty good. 

You do make it sound tasty enough... ;)   We were, as a matter of fact,
feeding 10 people... at least by the time we moved to Rochester... ;)

 DD>> And when I was 10 I raised my own market garden and sold the produce
 DD>> from a push cart. Made more money (during the season) than my dad did
 DD>> working at the mines. Even after the cost of seed and gasoline to
 DD>> haul me back and forth to town was taken out.
 NB>> Good deal.  :)  Interestingly, many of my siblings ended up putting in
 NB>> some sort of veggie (and flower) garden, once they were off on their
 NB>> own...  :)  Some still do...  :)

 DD> Now that I'm older - I realise that I was let slide on rent of the
 DD> land, use of the equipment, and the push cart, etc. Still, it was a
 DD> good deal. And since it was a ca$h business - no taxes paid. And no
 DD> nosy-Parkers from the health department (which didn't even exist in
 DD> that time and place). The main reason that it flew so well was that in
 DD> that era most women did not work outside the home. Today a push-cart
 DD> peddler as I was would get plenty of exercise, probably harrassed by
 DD> the busies (cops), and not much else - including money. 

Were you settled on a corner, or did you go door-to-door...?  The cute
10-year-old might have been a selling point for the veggies, too... ;)

 NB>> I remember that when we lived in the Philly area, the backyard already
 NB>> had some fruit trees planted, so we did harvest apples and cherries
 NB>> from them in season...  :)

 DD> And you allergic to apples. Or did that develop later in your life?

That developed later... after I was already married, actually...  maybe
shortly after the kid started school... 
 
 NB>> Nice selection.  :)  Tomatoes and a (turned out to be futile) try at
 NB>> rhubarb was as far as I ever got with edibles on my own.  Did a bit
 NB>> more flower gardening, though...

 DD> IIRC a black walnut tree's roots did for your rhubarb patch. Other
 DD> than that sort of thing rhubarb is a very hardy plant.

Yuppers... 

 DD> Chun King was owned/founded by Jeno Paulucci of Jeno's Pizza Rolls and
 DD> Michelina's. My favourite thing about Chun King (other than the
 DD> noodles) were the Stan Freberg adverts. Reynolds Metals (RJR/Nabisco)
 DD> owned it for a while before selling it to a Singaporean company to help
 DD> pay the nut on a leveraged buyout. Eventually they were sold (in the
 DD> mid-90s) to Hunt-Wesson whose masters CON-Agra (owners of La Choy)
 DD> closed down the factories and phased out the brand. So, you're (sorta)
 DD> right about La Choy and Chun King being under the same umbrella.

Oh, ok... ;)  We may well have had both at various times... and since
they looked and tasted about the same, easy to conflate them anyway.. :)
 
ttyl       neb

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