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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
I went through a period of eating a lot of cheap, stodgy food because I thought it was cheaper. Then one day I said "hang the expense" and bought a whole pile of fresh vegetables and fruit, and was surprised when I paid almost a third less at the checkout than I was used to. Fresh fruit and veg...- Stanley Doble
- Post #54
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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plus fours
Maybe I was too hasty. I meant that plus fours were not for polo, but that one might mistake jhodpurs for plus fours in an old photo if it was a little blurry. They were worn as casual or sports attire. Although, not being a polo expert, I could be wrong.- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
I know one (rich) family that actually hires someone to tend their garden. When I heard this I was stunned, and couldn't figure out what the idea was. My memories are of a simpler day when people grew their own produce in the back yard at minimal cost. I am sure that if you started your plants...- Stanley Doble
- Post #47
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
I understand that not everyone has the space to grow a garden. Sometimes the best you can do is go to the farmer's market and buy some good food. It may seem expensive but it is really not. You can bring home quite a lot of vegetables for $20 and they go a long way.- Stanley Doble
- Post #45
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
Fresh organic produce is a luxury reserved for the rich.... On the weekend I started 32 tomato plants and 32 pepper plants in little paper pots. I spent nothing, since the seeds, pots, and potting soil were left over from previous years. But the total investment was probably under $10. This...- Stanley Doble
- Post #44
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You Big Softy! - Your Favourite Soft Drinks
Lately I have had a few glasses of 7 UP hopped up with the juice of half a lemon or a couple of limes. This was an old favorite of mine from years ago.- Stanley Doble
- Post #357
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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plus fours
Not plus fours but jhodpurs. They look a little similar but are quite different. Plus fours for sports wear were part of a 20s - early 30s golfing outfit, period.- Stanley Doble
- Post #4
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
You can cut the cost of meat by half or more, by buying beef and pork by the side or quarter at the abatoir or slaughterhouse. Some of the neighbors would club together and buy a critter from a farm or auction barn and save even more. The meat comes cut and wrapped in brown paper. Even before...- Stanley Doble
- Post #33
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Alphonse Capone's Hat
Somewhere around here I have the autobiography of a professional magician. In the twenties, in Chicago he bought himself a snappy new lid but stopped wearing it when a friend warned him that he had bought the same hat that was the trademark of the "blanco mob" and that it would be healthier not...- Stanley Doble
- Post #25
- Forum: Hats
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You know you are getting old when:
When I was about 50 I saw an ad in the paper for computer lessons or internet lessons for "seniors over 45". So I took that as my bench mark and started asking for senior discounts. I soon found if the clerk was young enough I got them but if they were 30 or older they would say "you don't...- Stanley Doble
- Post #59
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
I had to laugh when I read this. When I was growing up everybody had a vegetable garden. Housewives made their own jams, pickles, and preserves. Later the deep freeze made storing your garden produce easier. Buying everything from the grocery store was an affectation for the rich.- Stanley Doble
- Post #29
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
Loss of fertility due to over farming was evident as early as the 1930s . "Health nuts" began warning of the loss of nutrients in vegetables about that time and the dangers of chemical fertilizers. Organic farming became a thing some time between the fifties and seventies, by the seventies it...- Stanley Doble
- Post #11
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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A question - Dr. Grabow and American Pipes.
Do you know the Canadian Brigham pipes? I had a few when I smoked a pipe and liked them. Larger and more expensive than Dr. Grabow. http://www.brighampipes.com/2006%20Update.htm Frankly I preferred a cheap corn cob pipe for every day, but Brigham makes some good pipes.- Stanley Doble
- Post #7
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
Modern "steam beer" made in big, sanitary factory type breweries was invented in the late 1800s and was available in most cities. Bars and saloons sold draft beer same as today. But unlike today, you were allowed to buy draft beer and take it home by the pitcher or bucket if you wanted...- Stanley Doble
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
People from 1900 are on record as saying the food was different (worse) in the 1920s, 1930s, all the way down to the fifties and sixties. Then they all died. Quote from a story by Joseph Mitchell, 1934. Two old men are talking. This was journalism not fiction so I take it the quote is accurate...- Stanley Doble
- Post #5
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
Milk back then might or might not be pasturized but would not be homogenized. It came from cows who ate fresh grass or hay and were not pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. If you got good milk it would be tastier and creamier than anything you can (legally) buy today. But there was the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #4
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
I think a low point in food quality and nutrition was reached in the sixties or seventies. Think TV dinners, white bread, packaged cookies that resemble masonite, and a very limited selection of fruit and vegetables, usually frozen or canned. Since then we have made some effort to get better...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?
Food today is much different and dare I say it, in many cases worse. You might be able to duplicate a 1900 diet if you grew all your own food and used only heirloom seeds. Even the wheat used to make bread today is different from what they grew in 1900. Offsetting that, pure food and drug laws...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Maybe you can explain something that has puzzled me for years. How did Lee Harvey Oswald, outspoken Marxist - Leninist and Castro supporter, land a government job in Texas in 1963 with no background check or loyalty oath?- Stanley Doble
- Post #946
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
The public was very aware of the Communist menace, it was in every newspaper and news broadcast. Who could have missed the trial and execution of the Rosenbergs for espionage? What regular newspaper reader did not know the names Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers? There...- Stanley Doble
- Post #941
- Forum: The Golden Era
