Cooking & Baking
In reply to the discussion: Remembering the food of my childhood [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,610 posts)There was also the oleomargarine that came in a plastic packet with a dye bubble that you had to pop and knead it all together in the plastic packet so it would be yellow like butter. Most vegetables were canned. My little brother and I discovered that canned peas, when thrown at the bathroom mirror, made a satisfying splat. Milk was delivered in glass bottles with foil tops (the milkman would leave it in an insulated metal box outside the back door). My mom would hand me a quarter and have me walk the two blocks to the bakery to buy a large loaf of fresh sliced white bread, but I actually preferred Wonder Bread because you could mold it into squishy balls. We made Kool-Aid to sell for a nickel a glass but you had to add your own sugar in those days.
Dinners always consisted of some kind of meat, some kind of potatoes, some kind of green (or greenish, if canned) vegetables and a salad. We could not leave the table until everyone had finished, and we were not allowed to watch television while eating dinner.