Skip to the the end part of this message to learn what typical
American meals truly consisted of in the pre-vegetarian times. Hint:
...it wasn't fast food or hamburgers. :-)
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> You forgor the 80's..... hamburger chains WITH salad bars! Wendys was
> the longest running, well into the 90s, but Burger King had one for a
> short while too, maybe even McDonalds too... I don't recall.
The first fast-food chain that I recall having a salad bar, and that
was back around the late 1970's, was White Coffee Pot Jr... not sure
if they were just a Baltimore area phenomena or if they existed
elsewhere. They were not the typical fast food chain, as, in addition
to the salad bar, one could get fried shrimp, carrot cake, crab soup,
and towards the end, cheese steak subs. The french fries were
delicious as they were cooked in chicken fat (that was back in my
pre-semi-vegetarian days); trying to remember if they sold fried
chicken as well - I think they did, but can't swear to it.
Next, Gino's hamburger chain had a salad bar - that was back in the
late 1970's as well. It was an "all you can eat" salad bar, and, if
one purchased a hamburger, one could use any toppings one wanted from
the salad bar on it - the styrofoam packaging used back then made it
very convenient to fit lots of salad toppings in with a hamburger to
go.
> Mike Ford wrote:
>
> > Different foods have there times, around the 60s it was "chili bowl"
> > joints, 70s salad bars, 80s hamburger chains (that failed to go away).
> > Whats an orthodox diner meal, lettuce salad, meat and potatoes with gravy,
> > some kind of veggie, and a slice of pie. How about a guess on the top ten
> > favorite foods in USA (by meals eaten)?
Ok, to help the rest of the world understand the truth about American
food, here's what typical American meals really consisted of in the
pre-vegeterian times:
When I was growing up, we always had a wide variety of vegetables -
and they were fresh, not frozen/canned, when in season (corn, peas,
string beans, lima beans, peas, sweet potatoes, broccoli, brussel
sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes, etc...) with meals; potatoes were often
mashed and served with gravy - sometimes they were baked and topped
with salt, pepper and butter or margarine. Meats consisted of roasts,
steaks, pork chops, ham, chicken, lean ground beef, shrimp, and
occasional Cornish game hens. In the summer we also had fried
chicken, crab cakes, hamburgers outside on the grill, fried tomatoes,
corn on the cob, fried eggplant, fresh salads (definitely not limited
to lettuce, by the way), watermellon, etc. There was always fresh
fruit to go along with lunches, such as apples, peackes, nectarines,
pears, oranges, etc. ...then meals with a turkey to be sliced on
Thanksgiving and Christmas. ...and for breakfast, one or more of:
cereal with milk, toast, scrambled eggs, waffles, french toast,
grapefruit, bacon or Taylor's pork roll, and orange juice to drink.
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