Yes, that is what home made food looks like sometimes.
You’re not in a restaurant, the “cook” isn’t payed, and presentation is not high on the priorities list if you also have to do dishes, wash clothes, and organize life for the family, possibly in addition to a job.
Right? And let’s be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire
Boomers across the country still have china hutches FULL of these plates. With probably more plates in storage.
I know its meant to represent 1987 but why canned?
I was born in '87 and I distinctly recall eating a lot of canned veggies growing up. I’m sure it’s what my mom grew up (in Newark, NJ) eating, and so it probably just passed on down when she was a young mother. I’m curious if canned veggies were just the rage at the time or if it was so because access to the fresh stuff wasn’t as available.
Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, manoomin, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.
This is why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of British food.
Not even comparable😂 Americans look back at this and laugh or cringe, Brits still eat their old-timey slop
Hey most of us stopped eating that way.
And started eating way, way worse
Maybe “worse” in the sense of health, but certainly not taste.
“French cut” green beans make me irrationally angry.
They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don’t understand how just the way they’re cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they’re also soaked in lye or something. Or maybe the exposed inner part of the beans absorbs metal from the can.
It’s not the taste so much as the texture. The difference in a green bean casserole made with French cut green beans and whole, cut, green beans is night and day. And by that I mean only one is worth eating. The other is just mush.
I’m guessing it’s more dependent on the brands you’re buying, but there shouldn’t be that significant of a flavor change. Also most cans have a liner inside them to protect the contents from chemically affecting the contents. I just checked a few sources for various products, and all of them were simply the beans in a water solution.
Some did include salt, which may be having a minor effect. The French cut, julienne, provides a higher surface area / volume ratio. This means the beans will “marinate” in the solution more effectively than larger cut beans. As in, the salt and water have better access to the inner parts of the beam, leaving them more tender and “marinated.”
I’m using that weird very loosely because I honestly can’t remember the right word.
Please, explain
The anger is irrational and thus cannot be rationally explained.
Can I ask you to explain it crazy then?
Sure thing
I think I remember this one… Banned Wow account? Tv remote up butt?
ding ding ding
Perfect, thanks!
How the fuck is that Jello
Are you asking how is it as food or challenging the claim that it is even Jello?
I was in disbelief that it was Jello because it does not look like Jello
yeah, no, that’s ambrosia for sure. cool whip and mandarin oranges
Oddly enough, probably the only thing on that plate I’d eat a bite of
Calling dinner supper is super Minnesotan, too.
Wait until you have family that say that daily meals are chronologically “breakfast, dinner, and supper.”
WHERE THE FUCK IS LUNCH @_@
Are you telling me they call lunch “dinner”?!
What do they call brunch, brinner?
Wait, no one else calls it that?
Others do, it’s a Midwestern thing.
Where I’m from, it’s interchangeable.
TEETH ARE OPTIONAL IN THIS HOUSE
I used to think I hated vegetables as a kid. Turns out I hated my parents “cooking”
My mom used to make liver every Thursday. She now denies that ever happened, which is hilarious.
What’s even more silly about this is that you never bothered to cook it yourself to experience better cooked food and the reason is? Idk for me it was because I am lame and too shy to ask to change the established way of life. On the other hand I have adjusted to eat food of all sorts even though it is displeasing. Except foods that have capsaicin or or peppers, I’m allergic to them.
You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.
idk, am I privileged to have a family who cared enough to go to eat out once in while like once a month ?
I fail to see how you can think I am trying to relate to someone who never had decent vegetables. It’s not like it is impossible for many of us to eat decent vegetables at one point. I clearly am not trying to be relating to everyone’s background. You are simply nitpicking and didn’t bother reading or understanding my comment.
Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.
because fresh vegetables are expensive and have short shelf lives
Which is funny because these days I just buy frozen vegetables and make food with those, and I still enjoy it far more than my parent’s cooking
It really isn’t even about fresh vegetables
Refrigerated fresh vegetables are much better than canned. Somewhere in between the '50s and today refrigerated got common and cheap and there was no excuse anymore for buying that soggy canned shit. I would’ve said the '90s were well after that point though. Anybody using canned green beans as a side in the '90s was just coasting on momentum and bad choices I think.
(There’s reasons to use canned – they make a good soup ingredient if you’re going to boil it to death anyhow, and they store better in your disaster prep bunker. But as a simple side for dinner, not a good choice.)
Am I crazy because I liked canned green beans as a salad (like, standard oil, vinegar, salt, pepper) when I was a kid? Mum still makes that and I still like it.
The other guy was more affirming but I’m gonna say yes you’re crazy. Anybody who likes what I hate so much has to be crazy, right?
Nah, no one’s crazy for liking any kind of food, and don’t let anyone tell you different. A simple bean salad sounds delightful to me
This is so true. I find there are plenty of ways to enjoy vegetables on the cheap or lower the effects of rot on foods. I feel like people don’t realize that 2000s is the year that current adults as kids grew up in. It is so much better back than after 2008 and 2020(current generation) are having to deal with but still it was a solved problem.
Yet people don’t really see what was talking about. I wasn’t alluding to the vegetables, but rather how kids are not willing enough to learn to cook or take initiative when they don’t enjoy something.
It isn’t easy to cook but I still helped my little brother. I wish when I was a kid, I learned to cook. My mom made the best foods though, and I lived pretty much happy with vegetables. I love salads. It is sad how many are not liking salads or vegetables as much.
I was essentially banned from the kitchen when I was a kid, so I learned to cook and bake as an adult. It’s cooking, not jedi training, you cannot age out of learning it.
I guess, but really I had some bad habits and didn’t know how to make anything more than simple dishes like spaghetti and meatballs. Salads seemed like way too much effort until you get the proper technique to chop them up. I understand what you mean but I still wish I had learned it as a kid. The muscle memory/technique to hone in on would have been nice before I became an adult and had to rely on eating out or eating random stuff at home because I also never learned to plan out meals properly. I guess there is more to it than cooking is what I am saying.
Not in 1987 Minnesota you’re not
I don’t know where this came from. I am talking about how as kids we grow up too shy to pickup cooking as a skill, even though we find it not taste right for us. It is fine to accept the food cause hard work and all that about love, but if you feel like it’s not good enough, we don’t seem to try. But you know I don’t deny it’s like that, yet people can still talk to their parents as kids, spice exists and canned veggies or frozen ones can taste decent. All basic truths.
I helped my little brother cook, he started pretty terribly and to be encouraging everything was, well, not gonna be effective for him to learn. I always made it clear I admired his work but clearly put how cooking skill takes patience and dedication to do. He learned how hard it was for me to cook. I wish I learned to cook when I was a kid.
Oh well people here got whooshed on the real story I laid out.
Do you want to talk about it?
I kept it short cause I didn’t think there much else to talk about. I expressed my opinion, big no-no on the internet but whatever
My mom used to make me add a can of mixed vegetables to my instant ramen until we agreed that I could eat them separately. So I would quickly force down the bland, mushy veggies then enjoy my ramen in its pure form.
Most of that looks like it already passed through a person once.
At least once…
…the brown slop on the left could easily be a two’fer!
fun fact, that plate has lead in it.
showing lead (Pb) from the pattern.Damn is this your picture? Did my comment cause you to go and test for yourself? Cuz thats amazing if you did lol
When I found out they had lead last year, I went to work with the cup to confirm. This is a handheld XRF, which depends on the specific spacing of electrons in atoms to determine the identity. Not much to it other than point and shoot! (with shielding)
Modern tools are fascinating, the way you described it sounds so absurdly high tech
That is not a cheap toy. I’ve heard of them, never seen one. What is it and how much was it?
This is a Thermo handheld XRF. I wasn’t working at this place when it was purchased, but it was somewhere between $40k-$60k.
I’m pretty sure that’s Corelle. Do they still do this today? Because all of our dishware are fucking Corelle
Edit: Ok so they stopped putting lead since 2005 so we should be safe. But how come they only stopped in 2005
But how come they only stopped in 2005
Probably ran out of their stock of lead around that time
My aunt always drops off the fucking best, most fattening, rich meals ( “church food” ) and it is always on a plate or bowl from that company that her family has had since at least the 80’s. I will not stop eating from those dishes, I don’t even care , it’s worth it.
Not sure, regulations probably? Too worn out from existing today to Check
Wouldn’t surprise me if money > children’s brains, this is America after all
Properly fired it’s pretty tough to get any meaningful amount of lead out of a glaze on ceramics.
I’d bet they did it because of pressure from customers.
I have corelle (or corealle?) but mine are all white and don’t have the decorative print. Does that mean mine are safe from lead?
The lead helps to create a super white white.
Yeah yeah, there could be layers that are not visible. I don’t fuckin know.
That’s not very fun
It sure will be when the lead-induced delirium kicks in.
Oh no, I ate off plates like this as a kid. That explains a lot.
You’re fine. The lead is bound in inert glass and only in the design. You would have had to chip off the design and eat it to have any problems.
I think we still have one of those plates in the cabinet. It’s not in normal rotation, tho.
What part of the plate has lead? The plate itself or the paint?
The paint in the pattern
I still own a few of those plates… 😶
i do too, they aren’t used anymore though.
You can play poker with the symbols on the outside.
Dogfood on the right, catfood on the left, goat chow in the middle
This got re-posted to [email protected], where we actually know what a hotdish is.
(It’s a casserole. /s)
A? Hotdish?!? Get him!
