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LIR Colin! terrible cooking was a HUGE part, 50s and 60s, vegetables were DISGUSTING.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Jul 5 '23, 20:03

Vegetables were boiled into mush, put on our plates, and, we were supposed to be excited.
Canned and frozen vegetables were the norm. DISGUSTING.
Huge contributor to standoff culture!

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Never had a veggie stand-off in my house, on the other hand they were usually out of a can and boiled for 30 minutes. So if it was fresh good. - . Jul 6, 05:03
The Truck Farmer -- (link) - Qale Jul 5, 20:35 [youtube] 2
- Oh, the great Hank gets to work on the truck. - Tim Jul 5, 20:56 1
  - Probably Top 10 shorts of all time? -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 21:25
in the 50's and 60's vegetables came in cans -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:22 3
- It was supposed to be BETTER. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:25 2
  - We did mostly frozen veggies—I don’t think I had fresh spinach until I was in my mid 20s -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:51
  - the canning process has you Pressure boil them for 20m -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:29
Green vegetables were boiled to death with baking soda added to keep them green :/ -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 20:14 1
- 🤮 -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:50
Selective farming has also made vegetables more palatable in general -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:09 1
- I think you are younger than many of us, at that time, society taught us preserved food was scientific and best -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 5, 20:11
Maybe it's regional? Midwesterners from that era were making some insame foods - colin Jul 5, 20:06 5
- Nope, I lived in Northeast, it was normal at that time. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:08 4
  - fwiw, food in Maine is still terrible. -- nm - colin Jul 5, 20:10 3
    - can't speak to that! in what way do you mean? -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:11 2
      - It's very very bland. Seafood is okay, everything else is pretty meh. - colin Jul 5, 20:46 1
        
        see also: New Zealand. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:20

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LIR Colin! terrible cooking was a HUGE part, 50s and 60s, vegetables were DISGUSTING.

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