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Thread Number: 70854
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
Did ads like this really make our grandparents say . . . |
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Post# 938457 5/14/2017 at 09:07 (2,538 days old) by joeekaitis  (Rialto, California, USA) |
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"Honey, grab your coat while I start the Packard! We're headin' to the A&P for some Birds Eye so you can make THIS for dinner!"
"Yes, dear, but not on Friday. The bacon, you understand."
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Post# 938466 , Reply# 1 5/14/2017 at 10:30 (2,538 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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Good question - I can give an answer based on personal experience which might suggest that 'yes, yes they did'.
My first adult purchases in Germany were my own washing machine. A 2800rpm centrifuge. A tumbler dryer. Gasp! My hatred of the environment was clear. My second purchase was a large, roomy deep freeze. Let me explain. Until very, very recently, it was impossible to buy fresh anything in Germany after Friday afternoon until Monday morning. Oh, sure, if you ran like a madman, you might find a few wilted vegetables at the local market - but fresh food shut doWwn just at the time of the week when one most needed it. Worse, shopping on a Friday afternoon (stores closed at 6:30 at the very latest) or Saturday morning was a nightmare. Having freezer capacity for frozen vegetables and fruits was a godsend. Ditto pantry space for UHT Milk and a really big refrigerator for eggs and cheese and all the other stuff. No shopping after noon on Saturday until Monday morning. No nothing fresh.
This was not all that different to America for a stay-at-home housewife in a one car family, living on a budget far away from a market.
So, yeah - I bet the reception was pretty close to the advertisements.
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Post# 938486 , Reply# 2 5/14/2017 at 12:07 (2,538 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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The convenience of frozen foods: yes | ||
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Post# 938489 , Reply# 3 5/14/2017 at 12:19 (2,538 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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This ad is a perfect example of why so many people of my generation and my parents generation didn't like fish. Back then most people just didn't have a clue of how to prepare it well, or have access to good fresh fish and seafood. Hence, fish on Friday's seemed like a penance for most Catholics.
My Mom made Salmon Patties with canned salmon on the Fridays that she didn't declare that we had "special dispensation" due to her anemia. The salmon patties were not bad with ketchup, or the cheese sauce she prepared to pour over them. Eddie | ||
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Post# 938507 , Reply# 4 5/14/2017 at 13:56 (2,538 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 938549 , Reply# 6 5/14/2017 at 19:31 (2,537 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
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Post# 938566 , Reply# 7 5/14/2017 at 20:59 (2,537 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Yuck, no way I would eat that crap. Absolutely despised the no meat Friday as a kid. When the Pope said Catholics do not have to have fish on Friday, I said I am never eating seafood again. Sort of a sacrilege living in this place. I hate all seafood. After getting very sick on a bad lobster when I was 9, that was it. PB&J for me on Friday until salvation came for me finally, LOL
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Post# 938615 , Reply# 8 5/15/2017 at 08:09 (2,537 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Notice in the advert copy
Especially "no matter where you live".
Fresh seafood obviously was and still is cheaper if you live near waters where the stuff is caught and or ships bring it in. Cod in particular comes from the waters of North Atlantic. So if you lived in Boise, Idaho somewhere chances are it cost more, if you could get it at all. Advert seems to be from the 1940's. This predates the major US highway system, so goods largely moved by either train or sometimes truck. No matter it would still be expensive shipping fresh fish from say Boston to Boise, and even then you're talking about by the time it arrived fish that was maybe off the boat a day, travelled one or to more... Hardly "fresh fish". *LOL* Frozen foods then were marketed both on convenience and ability to get foods normally not found in local areas, and or out of season. So you could have corn on the cob even in winter, and even if you lived in New York City. The other thing Birdseye did was recognized that a small (but growing) number of women did work outside of the home in both pre-WWII and after. Thus wanted (or needed) a fast way to get a mean on table, but also wanted to feel that they had an active part in cooking the thing. www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... | ||
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Post# 938720 , Reply# 9 5/15/2017 at 17:40 (2,536 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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My aunt knew how to cook fish The best fish I ever remember eating was the stuffed red snapper that my Aunt Doris baked. This was in the summer of 1959 when we visited them at their new home in Jackson, MS. I was about 4 years old, so it must have been great if I still remember it. She also made great boiled gulf shrimp. | ||
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