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ImStillMags wrote:



Which brings up a very good point!

We grew up on Wonder bread. I forget the motto... 12 ways to build
strong bodies?

Whatever!

That's what Mom bought. Never did see her actually eat the stuff. Trying
to kill us off!!!

Andy
 
In article , [email protected] says...

We have a guy at the track we call Kong. 6'7" and jacked (very
muscular). The funniest thing is his wife gives him lunch in a
Wonderbread lunchbox and it's just funny to see this guy with that
little spotted box that looks like a loaf of the stuff;)
 
"Andy" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

We had that or a store brand white bread. My mom ate neither and really we
weren't allowed to have bread very often. It was kept in the freezer. We
mainly had it for road trips where we had meatloaf sandwiches.
 
On Feb 25, 2:44?pm, I_am_Tosk wrote:

For years, a thrifty co-worker brought his lunch in the Knight Rider
lunch box his son had gotten tired of. Funny to see him pour whatever
beverage it was from his Knight Rider thermos. He would also wear
shirts until they were threadbare. I asked him about it once, and he
expostulated, "It's just for work!"
 
"Julie Bove" wrote:



Julie,

Meatloaf sandwiches, another good topic but we never had leftovers of
that stuff.

I'll be my typical broken record self... self... self...

I didn't know the meaning of hungover until I sat down in 1st grade to
open my lunchbox for my bread and butter sandwich and banana. I flipped
up the lid and there was Mom's wallet. Credit cards, cash, THE WORKS!
Then and there I made a 1st grade executive decision to buy a hot lunch
AND cartons of chocolate milk. I was bright enough not to use the credit
card for a 35? hot lunch. The things money can buy! I learned more in
that one day than I did through 5th grade. I thought about running away
and retiring. I was even brighter to just go home.

Best,

Andy
 
On Feb 25, 5:09?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

You "weren't allowed to have bread very often"? Were your parents
hardcore low-carbers?

--Bryan
 
On Feb 25, 3:56?pm, ImStillMags wrote:

In the extended family, only my mom's uncle the baker ate bread with
his dinner. We always had some starch at dinner time, making bread
redundant. Bread was for sandwiches, breakfast toast, or to tide you
over between the time you got home from school and dinnertime.


There you need something to sop up the grease from the meat. But do
BBQ joints serve up starch with their meals? I can picture potato
salad or mac 'n' cheese, but not something whose taste would be
improved by grease.
 
"Andy" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I learned recently that my mom always made two. That's the only way we had
leftovers.


Oh that's funny! I heard a story from one of the moms at my daughter's
dance studio. She said when her daughter was in preschool, she would feed
her breakfast at home and then drop her off for the day while she went to
work. The following month when she went to pay her bill she was stunned at
how high it was. Her daughter learned that she could get breakfast each
morning and put it on her mom's tab. The mom put a quick stop to that!

Once, my parents went away for the weekend, leaving my brother and I home
with some money in case we decided we needed to buy some additional food.
And of course we did! We walked up to the store where we got some kind of
frozen cream pie. I think it had ice cream in it because I remember we at
the whole thing for dinner, frozen. Odd that I would pick it out because I
have an extreme dislike for whipped cream, never liked ice cream and didn't
really even like pie. I just remember it looking soooo alluring and like
something we wouldn't normally be allowed to have. I don't remember it
tasting all that good. But we did eat the whole pie and nothing else for
dinner that night because we wanted all evidence of it out of the house. We
also bought a cantaloupe. That was another food we didn't have in the house
normally because my mom couldn't stand the smell of it.
 
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On Feb 25, 5:09 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

You "weren't allowed to have bread very often"? Were your parents
hardcore low-carbers?

---
My dad was and is the junk food King. When he was working, he would make
stops on the way home at the day old bakery and some place that sold candy
"goofs". My friends liked to be at the house when he came in. He always
had something with him.

My mom, OTOH preferred to shop at health food stores. She raised us to
believe that bread was evil. She really had no particular reason except to
say that it would make us fat. She also said the same thing about cheese.
We were allowed to have cheese. Just not very much at once. I can remember
the first time I saw a dietician. She had this plastic food and she asked
me to show her how much I thought a serving was. I got everything right
except for the cheese. I waaay underestimated the amount of cheese. I
remember saying, "I can eat THAT much?" She said I was the only patient she
ever had that did that. Most people overestimated the amount they could
have.

I guess it was the fat in the cheese my mom was opposed to. But apparently
she got over it because these days she orders things with extra cheese. She
still won't eat bread though. She does have arthritis and she says that
wheat and nightshades give her pain. Which they may well do. I have read
about a connection.

I do not have the same kind of arthritis she has though. She has
Rheumatoid. I have Psoriatic, if indeed I actually do have that. I am not
entirely sure that I believe the Dr. who diagnosed me. And I do not have
the typical symptoms of it. At any rate, wheat or nightshades have never
been a problem for me.
 
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On Feb 25, 3:09 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:



Wow, when I grew up (and in the South in general) there was a bread
plate on the table with about a half a loaf of bread on it at
dinner. You ate with a fork in one hand and a folded piece of bread
in the other hand...for pushing food on your fork and then taking a
bit and for 'sopping' up the gravy.

Even today in a lot of bbq joints, you get a stack of white bread with
your bbq dinner.

---

I can remember seeing paintings and photos of people with bread on their
table, either on a plate or straight out of the bag. I asked my dad about
that and he said most people ate it with their meals. But he told me the
reason they did that was because bread was cheap. He said if they couldn't
afford to feed the whole family a lot of meat, they would put the bread out
and hope the family would fill up on that.

I have never personally eaten at a house where they put bread on the table
but they might have rolls on special occasions, as we did. My mom used to
buy those horrid Brown and Serve ones. I think she was the only one who
really liked them. Now she serves King's Hawaiin rolls but only on special
occasions, like Thanksgiving.

I only remember getting plain cheap slices of bread at one restaurant. It
was a hole in the wall place in Alameda, CA. Half of the place was
decorated one way and the other half another way. Had a huge menu that read
like a book. About half of it was Thai food and the other half, American.
I used to get what they called Salisbury Steak but it really wasn't. At
least I don't think so. My brother used to make it and he always put bread
crumbs in it. My mom let him make that meal when we had company. She
didn't like to cook. All the recipes I've seen for it have crumbs or some
kind of filler. But they used no filler in their meat at this place. It
was just ground sirloin served in a huge, oval patty. It was topped with
grilled green peppers, white onions and slathered in brown gravy. Came with
a side of starch of your choice. I always had mashed potatoes. The menu
said it came with rolls. But they didn't bring any. So when I asked for
the rolls, I got a stack of cheap white bread.
 
On Feb 25, 5:09?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

I never had Wonder bread when I was a kid. Our parents were *quite
frugal* and I remember after being out on my own finding out that
Wonder bread sucked.
 
On Feb 25, 11:27?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

I hated those too. I didn't really like bread when i was a kid,
except at restaurants that served crusty bread with lots of butter.

I remember those too. I thought they were even worse. Bad bread, but
with sugar added. When I get my shit together again about eating, and
start being careful with carbs, bad bread will be the first to go.

--Bryan
 
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:04:00 -0800 (PST), projectile vomit chick
wrote:


In Brooklyn there was a bakery on practically every block... back then
Wonder (packaged bread) cost more than bakery bread... Wonder etal.
used to be packaged in waxed paper with a heat sealed label at each
end, were no plastic bags back then. We always had lots of baked
goods in the house, my father spent 27 years as a Dugans driver, but
we only ate bakery bread.
http://www.dugansbakers.com/page4.html
 
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:27:09 -0800 (PST), Bryan
wrote:


As a kid, I was fine with Brown & Serve rolls. I was okay with those
crescent biscuits in a tube too... but that was what I knew and it was
a step up from Wonder Bread.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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says...

We never had white bread, my dad wouldn't allow it. Of course we didn't
have snacks, or sugar for many years either. Salt was something mom
might wave over food while cooking but was never allowed at the table..
My dad was a health food freak back before it was trendy;)... and he did
the shopping.
 
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