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  1. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    The market had chicken on sale so I made one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken, boiled potatoes with gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce (home made) and tomato juice. No bread, dinner rolls or stove top stuffing, I'm on a diet.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Price of tea in China
  3. Stanley Doble

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    I was trying to make the point that a person from a remote village in England or Scotland might be incomprehensible to us, but would be equally incomprehensible to someone from their own time from a different county. Literacy would make a difference. You can see that by reading things that...
  4. Stanley Doble

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    To get back to the original question a reasonably literate person would have no problem communicating with a reasonably literate person of the 1770s. You can read the writings of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and others from that time period with little trouble. There were many regional...
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Steamed cauliflower with Carbonara sauce made with cream, parmesan, and bacon. A favorite of mine.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Ronnie the Rivetter, Rosie the Rivetter's gay co worker, can't build a battleship without his Chesterfields.
  8. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Thanks Vera felt a little better today so made some halibut poached in broth, boiled potato and French beans. With a glass of grape juice. Does anyone else like grape juice with fish?
  9. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Moving to the suburbs or the equivalent has been going on a long time. When horse cars were introduced in the 1870s it made it easy to live on the edge of town and commute to work or shopping. The brownstones and town houses of the 1870s and 1880s were the middle class housing of the day...
  10. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Been nursing a cold the last few days and don't feel like cooking or eating so tonight just had some chicken soup (canned).
  11. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Black jazz fan or musician = gate mouth = gator = alligator. How slang changes and develops. White jazz fan or musician = slot mouth.
  13. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    I see we had the same dinner one day apart ha ha.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    Her account seems plausible to me. She was working in the Ministry of Propaganda, their job was to create public opinion and whitewash the regime. No wonder they specialized in publishing only the good news. We know from other sources that the worst atrocities were hushed up. This seems...
  15. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    An old fashioned meat and potatoes dinner. Pork chop fried in an iron skillet with plenty of onions. Mashed potatoes with butter, salt and pepper. Green peas and a glass of tomato juice. A lemon square and a cup of tea for dessert.
  16. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    The vegetable soup was really good, and you could make enough to feed the whole family for a few bucks. You don't need a pressure cooker, I like mine because I can have a meal ready in 10 or 15 minutes. But you could just as easily use a regular pot or crock pot. Serve with garlic bread for a...
  17. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a big pot of home made soup winter vegetable style. Carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions, celery, a 19oz can of crushed tomatoes, a couple of vegetable stock cubes and water. Cook for 10 minutes in a pressure cooker. Delicious. Tried it with garlic croutons and a sprinkle of Parmesan, extra...
  19. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a pot of chili.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Wonder if any of these Walmart haters ever lived in a small town and had to put up with those "friendly" small town store keepers as I did. If you want dingy badly lighted stores half filled with overpriced merchandise nobody wants, run by a guy with an ingrown disposition that's what you got...
  21. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Pork chop, green beans, mashed potatoes. New dessert thrill. The supermarket had italian Pandoro cake on sale and I had a bag of frozen raspberries I needed to use up. So I had a slice of cake with stewed raspberries and whipped cream. Delicious.
  22. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Ham and cheese stuffed chicken breast, steamed cabbage, fried rice. Trenchfriend you don`t seem to like cooking. I hope you have something more substantial at other meals
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Another way of paying for a war is inflation. "Printing money" is old fashioned. They print government bonds, send them to the big banks, the banks "buy" them and credit the government's account. The result is the same but they are not "printing money" they are issuing debt with the added...

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