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mtngirl47

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40. We didn't eat out, or fast food

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 11:34 PM

14 hrs ago

Well, the only fast food was a PB&J sandwich!

As a child the only time we went to a restaurant was a very special occasion. We took our lunches to school, and we even took picnics when we went on trips.

We didn't have soda....I remember that if my parents went out on a Saturday night, the babysitter was told that we could split two cokes between the four of us and that she could have a whole one.

We had to clean our plates but it wasn't the over processed stuff that we all have now.

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Interesting take FHRRK 16 hrs ago #1

Never wanted to stay home from school sick. multigraincracker 15 hrs ago #16

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How to vilify a generation with a broad brush... NotHardly 14 hrs ago #43

It's almost like the well of resilience we need is in our 1960s generation bucolic_frolic 16 hrs ago #2

What stands out to me PoindexterOglethorpe 16 hrs ago #3

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Yep. Just be home by dinner. Martin Eden 16 hrs ago #7

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We always had a good percentage of Black people living in Delaware. And I live right next-door to a stone cold racist Walleye 2 hrs ago #68

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We didn't eat out, or fast food mtngirl47 14 hrs ago #40

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I was curious myself.... IcyPeas 14 hrs ago #39

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Those who didn't live through it and try to defend 3825-87867 15 hrs ago #24

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You are absolutely right. my mom's 1st cousin never really returned from WW2 and OAITW r.2.0 14 hrs ago #41

Also a reality back then: thucythucy 4 hrs ago #59

I'm not sure canetoad 15 hrs ago #30

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Pre and post The Wizard 7 hrs ago #48

My youth was spent... BH liberal 6 hrs ago #49

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