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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Peel me a grape, French me a fry.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Twenty years later prices hadn't changed all that drastically but all the change was upwards. I must have lead either a very provincial or very sheltered life because before I left home, there were all kinds of foods I either never ate or had never heard of. That even includes spaghetti. Never...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Some people put ketchup on everything and, sometimes, even catsup. And by the way, my wife says "to-mah-to" instead of "to-may-to." Old Virginia accent.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Good question. I worked in a pizza (and sandwich) shop as a freshman in college but I don't remember what it may have been called. I had trouble remembering a lot of things that year and I had to take a few years off before coming back again. By then, however, there were chain pizza places...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Pizza used to be called "pizza pie" and our token New Yorker here at work still uses the term "pie." Actually she's from Brooklyn but that's close enough. My father used the expression "cold cuts" to describe what was served on Sunday afternoons in the army, same as was still served twenty...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Oh, we had tapioca pudding but it was something else I didn't eat. In the case of celery, it wasn't that I didn't like the taste because I don't think it has any. It was that it was so chewy and stringy. Modern farming has not affected the basic characteristics, apparently. We seemed to have...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I've never been in Taco Bell. And authentic tacos are not made from wheat, although I understand they are becoming more popular in the northern part of Mexico, close to the border.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I was reminded of this by comments in another thread as well as a discussion with my young wife. I'm sure it's been talked to death already but I didn't get a chance to say anything. So here are some more thoughts. First off, the Golden Era to me was the 1950s, although the early 60s weren't...
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    Winston Churchill said history was going to be kind to him because he was going to write it.
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    A terrorist may or may not be someone who does something just because he hates someone or something. The man who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma did that out of hate. But most carry out acts of terrorism because they don't have an army to do it for them. We have troops all over the...
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    Other cultures

    That's not funny and it's no joking matter. I feel sorry for you. Nothing bothers me like that.
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    Nothing like this has ever been in a movie that I know of but it always seemed a little odd that men flying airplanes and dropping bombs on cities full of people are considered brave but a man who blows himself up in front of an enemy (usually us) in his own country is considered cowardly. But...
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I agree. As far as going on a hiking outing, which I'm planning on for Monday, easily the hardest part is leaving the house. After that, it's pretty easy. Funny, but just this morning I was reading a newspaper clipping that I had saved from my hometown newspaper from probably 30 years ago, the...
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    Other cultures

    Superman had kryptonite and you have onions. Given how much kryptonite there is, you're probably at greater risk than Superman.
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I just reread this thread, a little surprise nothing new has been posted. I'm a little more interested in the topic than I was two months about because retirement is beginning to look a little more imminent now. I think I'll be out of here by June but it was be nice to stay until my birthday in...
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    Other cultures

    Only 40 years ago.
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    Other cultures

    In that wonderful small town where I lived all though the years I was in public school, a lot of the stores in town were either chain stores or franchises. One advantage of a franchise is the advertising is generally taken care of on a national basis. Your local hometown McDonalds may be locally...
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    Other cultures

    According to one unimpeachable source, McDonald's does not own Pret a Manger, although it had a part ownership at one time. Your local McDonald's is probably not owned by McDonald's, either.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Small, as in small town, is relative, of course, but I think a lot of towns and cities shared certain characteristics that are mostly gone these days. I'm reminded of this when I think of the old Hardy Boy books, the early ones, of course. I think the population of Bayport, for instance, was...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Flag waving is never risky, either. It's pseudo-patriotism. It's a bumper sticker that says "support our troops." But on he other hand, one does see national flags displayed in other countries, too.

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