The American obsession with food - Page 2

BerryBaby · 03-11-2008, 07:29 PM

My grandparents were always working in their garden. It was beautiful!!! I loved going over there.

MayQueen · 03-12-2008, 12:08 AM

I was a really skinny kid and my only exercise was playing the piano. We had dessert every night. But I didn't taste fast food until I was 16.

I've read that the latest fad ice cream/yogurt (I can't recall the name because it doesn't exist around here) is made with one of the ingredients from powdered baby formula. People say the stuff isn't amazing on first taste but a few days later they are craving it. Maybe we get that sort of thing in other foods we eat and crave.

Food Network Fan · 03-12-2008, 12:21 AM

Getting a pizza when I was a kid was a HUGE treat. Sometimes when we would come home from church on Sunday, there was a small privately owned shop called Angela's Dad would always go to. There wasn't a whole lot of fast food places here when I was a kid. There was a Borden Burger. I remember my brother collected King Kong glasses from that place.

BerryBaby · 03-12-2008, 12:15 PM

The fast food place we went to was the opening of the first McDonald's in 1954. We all dressed up in our Sunday church clothes. The businessmen in town were invited and it was a huge event. That's the only time I remember going there.

Going out to eat was such a treat. If we did it four times a year, that was a lot. We ate lots of vegetables from the garden. Sometimes that was all we would have and money was tight. We didn't know, though.

Meat was also a treat and mostly on weekends. I can thank our parents for raising us to be such healthy adults!

MayQueen · 03-12-2008, 12:31 PM

To this day, I don't believe my mother has ever been in a fast food place. Although once she ate delivery pizza at my house and didn't complain too much. She's never cooked. She and my step-father eat out most of the time now or he will throw something on the grill and they'll have salads. People think she's my sister so she must be doing something right.

BerryBaby · 03-12-2008, 02:46 PM

You know, I don't think my parents ever did fast food either other than the McD's opening. That was it.

Food Network Fan · 03-12-2008, 02:56 PM

Hotdogs were probably the one thing my parents would get. In WV it's common to put chili and cole slaw on them. I have seen some places call it a WV dog. My parents used to talk about how my great grandmother used to ride the bus to town just to get them. She would have 20 cents, and the bus driver knew her and would let her ride for a nickel even though the ride cost more. She would get 2 hot dogs and have a nickel for the ride home. My parents would often go in to pay them for what she should have paid, but she had got to the point where all she had left was her long term memory and she thought the prices were the same as when she was young. But they all knew her and would take care of her.

bakerman · 03-12-2008, 06:36 PM

I had some fast food as a child mostly McDonalds. I remember a game my mom and I would play, we always went grocery shopping on Thursdays, and what ever we could save with coupons would be our lunch money, it was always my job to cut out coupons. If IGA was having double coupons, we could skip McDonalds and go to this diner type place called The Governors, still my favorite comfort food place back home.

MAC

MayQueen · 03-12-2008, 07:08 PM

Chili and cole slaw on a hot dog--I could do that! Are hot dogs still made that way in WV, Suzie?

Bakerman, your mom sounds so cool. I love her idea about clipping the coupons and using that money for lunch!

Food Network Fan · 03-12-2008, 07:21 PM

Yes, that is the most popular hot dog here.

West Virginia Hot Dogs