AMERICAN CHEESE???

I mean - the original American cheese that would break when you tried to fold it. It was drier and not processed like all these Kraft cheeses today??

What I wouldn't give to get my hands on the good cheeses we had 50 years ago!


Heck - I miss the glass quarts of milk with the cream on top that we had to shake before drinking. Milk never lasted more than 2 days. And it was real milk - whole milk - not 2%, 1%.

Chocolate milk in those days was made with whole milk as well.

Cottage cheese didn't last long - and it was so good and creamy.

Neither did bread. Bread in the good ol' days was so good! You either baked or bought it daily.

Wonder bread came out and ruined it all. Although I have to say that Wonder bread USED to be good - changed the formula - yuck, yuck, yuck. and since when does "fresh" bread last for a month on the shelf????? Oh yeah - feed me more - I'm almost totally embalmed already from the preservatives!

I bought a bottle of Dad's Old Fashioned Rootbeer a couple days ago - not the same.

We had 7-Up - the good 7-Up. We had Coca Cola - the original formula - much better tasting - who cares if it took the rust off chrome bumpers! Even Pepsi has changed.

We had Veep. Another lemon-lime drink that was good. They came out with Sprite - too syrupy - not the same.

Bosco chocolate syrup was really good. Where's Bosco??? Even Nestle's Quik has changed!

Very seldom do I buy Campbell's chicken noodle soup - cripe - that stuff is nasty! They changed their forumla too. Bought a can last week for a quick lunch with a sammie - gag city!

I miss Holly Farms chickens - they were the best! Tender, juicy and not fat.
Thanks to Perdue - they are gone. Hate Perdue.

It was nice to shop in the olden days - you didn't have to read every dang blasted label to see what was in your food. If you bought tomato paste, you got tomato paste - not tomato paste with herbs, tomato paste with garlic, etc. Ditto with canned tomatoes and sauces!

You wanted Alfredo sauce you made it - no jars of it on the shelves. I think the only breaded meat in the freezers were breaded veal patties.

And shopping was easier and delightful - you didn't have to walk 35 miles up and down aisles to find what you wanted. You bought groceries in the grocery store, drugs at the drug store, etc.

And I miss the old-fashioned bakeries. Hate the grocery store bakeries. It's all crap! Comes in frozen - gets proofed and baked. Some just comes in frozen. What ever happened to the rule - if it's been frozen you cannot freeze it again??? Stores don't care.

And you can't tell me that the packages of chicken parts that come in the store are not already frozen! They claim they are packed in ice for shipping. NOT! they come in FROZEN - which means you cannot take them home and freeze them. Eat them within a day or two.

Voortman cookies anyone????? Dang things will last 2 years or more - check the dates the next time you're in the store - turns my stomach!

Don't depend on any can sizes when you're cooking - the sizes and weights are all changing.

Tuna for instance - 6 1/4 oz cans are 5 oz water, or oil, or olive oil and 1 1/4 oz of flaked (looks more like ground to me) tuna??? Maybe part of a fin???? You may get a samll sandwich from one can. Add a lot of onion and relish to make up for it. LOL

oh shut up Mama..................

MamaM I love you, you crack me up! But things did taste better back in the day.......
I am glad we can still cook from scratch!

Mama, let me ask you something.. When you were younger, lets say, 15 -16, did those older than you dream about their good old days too?

I mean, if we watch video of the times before both our days, you see people basically with the same complaints as we all have today, that the world is changing for the worst and how great things were in their youth.

People are so worried today about tomorrow, yet I cannot even fathom what people were thinking when most of Europe was falling to Hitler. A time where London was about to fall to the Germans. Can you imagine what you would have thought going to bed at night after reading about the bloodshed drowning people just across the pond trying to fathom how any country could bomb women and children (target them mind you) and wondering what the world is coming to?

Imagine if you would, the Army of your countrymen coming into your town and shockingly gun down protesters such as what happened in Mass. in the 1700's. Would you wonder if the world was coming to an end?

How about when you and I were much younger and every night we wondered if some idiot who parked a bunch of missiles 90 miles from Florida would end civilization as we know it.. I remember thinking what this world was coming to, and yet today I think we can say at least in the aspect of immediate world destruction, we have changed for the better.

I think we as people are always concentrated in the now and think that everything we are going through today is new and nobody has ever felt the way we do right now. In reality, we are always in a state of flux. The good old days for you, were "Times achangin for the worst" for someone else.

jafo -

We all know that we cannot change all the horrible things going on in the world! And each generation will have good and bad memories - some worse than others.

But dang it - do they have to screw up our food! Do they have to change the formulas/recipes? It's the foods that I am talking about. I want the good ol' days of the good foods - made better - less preservatives - not having to read every label - no MSG hidden by one of it's 24+ other names, etc.

Do you think I want to go back to the wringer washer?
Do you think I want to go back to beating a cake batter by hand with 300 strokes?
Do you think I want to go back to telling the oven temperature by using my hand because there is no thermostat?
And having to light pilot lights in the oven and the stove top?
Do you think I want to go back to defrosting the freezer?
Do you think I want to go back to the days of Glass Wax?
Cripe - 2 black and white channels on TV with rabbit ears - and we appreciated it.

Been there - done that.

Stop screwing with our food! That is my complaint!

Sure - if they stop screwing around with many of our products! Just wish I was 20 years younger - I'd be farming! Wouldn't need a sotre for a thing!