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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 22, 2020 13:40:16 GMT -5
Some foods I never saw them eat were pizza, Chinese or Mexican. Im only guessing the later 2 types were not popular during this time period.
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Post by rickking on Sept 22, 2020 14:24:28 GMT -5
I can't imagine going through life without eating Mexican food! I live half an hour from the border here in Arizona, and I love going down just to get some authentic tacos!
I do remember one time the Waltons had spaghetti, so at least they'd heard of Italian food. As for Chinese, who knows?
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Post by Brenda on Sept 22, 2020 14:37:59 GMT -5
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in West Virginia, and I don’t remember ever having pizza, Chinese, or Mexican food until about the mid-1960s. My mother served things like meat loaf, fried chicken, pork chops, or pinto beans. We occasionally had spaghetti too.
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Post by Brenda on Sept 22, 2020 14:43:10 GMT -5
Kami recently wrote a Facebook post about the food on the set.
The food was real and was prepared by the property department in a real, functioning kitchen that sat just off the kitchen set. Often the food was quite good. One prop man used to make meatloaf from his Italian mother's recipe. The challenge was eating the food all day long! An episode's kitchen table scenes were shot back to back, so in a single day we might do dinner, then breakfast, and then dinner again. A four-page supper scene would typically take 4 hours to film. When the food first came out, it might be good and we might be hungry, but after a couple of hours sitting in the hot lights, almost any food gets pretty gross.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 22, 2020 15:23:01 GMT -5
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in West Virginia, and I don’t remember ever having pizza, Chinese, or Mexican food until about the mid-1960s. My mother served things like meat loaf, fried chicken, pork chops, or pinto beans. We occasionally had spaghetti too. So you had to have had pepperoni tolls 😋 |
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Post by Brenda on Sept 22, 2020 15:39:56 GMT -5
I was a teacher for 34 years. West Virginia school cooks make the BEST pepperoni rolls!
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 22, 2020 15:44:43 GMT -5
It IS a state delicacy. I make them myself. There is this little store across the border that sells the best ones .
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Post by rabner59 on Sept 22, 2020 16:19:20 GMT -5
Here in Kentucky it's soup beans fried potatoes corn bread mustard greens for supper ,Gravy and biscuits eggs an county ham fried potatoes for breakfast.coffee or milk
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Post by Easton on Sept 22, 2020 17:28:03 GMT -5
Pizza was unknown in the USA until after WWII when American soldiers who had fought in Italy and had learnt to love the snack brought the concept of pizza back with them.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 22, 2020 17:44:17 GMT -5
Pizza was unknown in the USA until after WWII when American soldiers who had fought in Italy and had learnt to love the snack brought the concept of pizza back with them. Really? 😯 that's terrible to not have pizza |
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Post by rickking on Sept 22, 2020 18:23:57 GMT -5
Pizza was unknown in the USA until after WWII when American soldiers who had fought in Italy and had learnt to love the snack brought the concept of pizza back with them. This is from Wikipedia:
"Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where Italian immigrants concentrated. The country's first pizzeria, Lombardi's, opened in 1905. Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy's native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular."
So I wouldn't say pizza was unknown, but it was nowhere near the popularity it enjoys today.
By the way, Chicago pizza is better than New York pizza!  |
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 22, 2020 18:28:24 GMT -5
Pizza was unknown in the USA until after WWII when American soldiers who had fought in Italy and had learnt to love the snack brought the concept of pizza back with them. This is from Wikipedia:
"Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where Italian immigrants concentrated. The country's first pizzeria, Lombardi's, opened in 1905. Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy's native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular."
So I wouldn't say pizza was unknown, but it was nowhere near the popularity it enjoys today.
By the way, Chicago pizza is better than New York pizza! I like a thin and crispy crust myself. I don't know if thats NYC pizza. |
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Post by Easton on Sept 22, 2020 18:52:51 GMT -5
Curious. I got my info from a Wiki article as well. It didn't have your info in it.
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Post by Brenda on Sept 22, 2020 19:16:33 GMT -5
Anyone can edit a Wikipedia article. It’s only as accurate as the people who edit it.
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Post by rickking on Sept 22, 2020 19:37:28 GMT -5
Anyone can edit a Wikipedia article. It’s only as accurate as the people who edit it. But if it's on the Internet, it has to be true!
Just kidding! |
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