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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

LizzieMaine

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Campbell's Scotch Broth was the best thing in the world to eat on a cold winter day after shoveling out the driveway. Good for what ailed ya.

Not being of Andean descent, I'd never heard of quinoa. If not a malaria cure, it sounds like a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians in 1985. Junior Quinoa, good field no hit.
 

kiwilrdg

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If you've been doing it for generations, in the country, on a farm, you're not a hipster. If you do it on your rooftop and carry on like you're, like yah, the FIRST PERSON EVER TO RAISE BEES and sell the honey for $30 a pint to other people who've never actually seen a wild bee, then yes, you're a hipster.

So if I get some domestic bees and I use my honey myself and I keep it to myself because I don't want a bunch of people trying to get me to give them honey or mead I am still just weird right? I don't mind being crazy but I do not want to be a hipster in the modern sense.
 

Fletch

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Harry The Hipster wasn't worried.
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Here he is in 1945 asking the musical question:
Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?
 
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vitanola

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Campbell's Scotch Broth was the best thing in the world to eat on a cold winter day after shoveling out the driveway. Good for what ailed ya.

Not being of Andean descent, I'd never heard of quinoa. If not a malaria cure, it sounds like a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians in 1985. Junior Quinoa, good field no hit.

Campbell's doesn't sell their Scotch Broth anymore?:(
 

kiwilrdg

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I have had some tirtilla chips that I would consider artisanal. Handmade street-food tortillas. They did not have a label on the bag. They came in a plain brown paper bag and were dirt cheap. Not anything like any commercial chips.
 

Flicka

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Judging from the expression on the faces on the packages, mescaline seems to be a key ingredient in modern Campbell soup recipes.

But quinoa is really good. I really like grainy stuff like quinoa, bulghur, couscous and barley. The latter is very traditional here, but coming as I do from an area with plenty of immigrants of non-Scandinavian origin (which here also equals 'low income'), I've always eaten food from all over the world. I never saw 'exotic' food as posh or 'artisanal' since I learned about it from (decidedly un-posh) people I knew. While trendy here these days, there is nothing ridiculous or inherently fancy about, say, Ethiopian cuisine (my grandparents used to live there so I grew up acquainted with injera and wot). Likewise, something like nam plaa may sound fancy-pantsy but it's also a staple in the kitchen of Thai rice farmers...

But yeah, I do laugh at the people paying big bucks for speshul brands of speshul ingredients in tiny packages when I get them by the gallon for practically nothing at the local Arabic or Thai shop. :)
 

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