Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Quinoa -- yeah, I had to Google it too.
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/whatisquinoa.htm

 

[Fletch]

Quinoa (KEEN-wah), a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium), is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds.

Edible? Sez who?

 

[vitanola]

Wish they'd bring back mock turtle soup though.

Mock turtle soup, a real Scottish dish!

I miss Campbell's Ox-Tail and Printanier soups.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Campbell's Scotch Broth was the best thing in the world to eat on a cold winter day after shoveling out the driveway. Good for what ailed ya.

Not being of Andean descent, I'd never heard of quinoa. If not a malaria cure, it sounds like a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians in 1985. Junior Quinoa, good field no hit.

 

[kiwilrdg]

If you've been doing it for generations, in the country, on a farm, you're not a hipster. If you do it on your rooftop and carry on like you're, like yah, the FIRST PERSON EVER TO RAISE BEES and sell the honey for $30 a pint to other people who've never actually seen a wild bee, then yes, you're a hipster.

So if I get some domestic bees and I use my honey myself and I keep it to myself because I don't want a bunch of people trying to get me to give them honey or mead I am still just weird right? I don't mind being crazy but I do not want to be a hipster in the modern sense.

 

[LizzieMaine]

If you keep worrying about whether people think you're a hipster, you probably are.

 

[Fletch]

Harry The Hipster wasn't worried.

Here he is in 1945 asking the musical question:
Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?

 

[vitanola]

Harry The Hipster wasn't worried.

Here he is asking the musical question Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?, 1945.

Good question, but the captains and kings really await the answer to a different question, to wit; Who put the Nembutals in Mr. Murphy's Overalls?

 

[vitanola]

Campbell's Scotch Broth was the best thing in the world to eat on a cold winter day after shoveling out the driveway. Good for what ailed ya.

Not being of Andean descent, I'd never heard of quinoa. If not a malaria cure, it sounds like a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians in 1985. Junior Quinoa, good field no hit.

Campbell's doesn't sell their Scotch Broth anymore?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Campbell's doesn't sell their Scotch Broth anymore?

Campbell's stopped selling Scotch Broth in the US in 2010 though it's still sold in Canada where it's made. Though you can get it through Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Campbells-Con...-Ounce/dp/B000FK8M64/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

 

[jamespowers]

Campbell's stopped selling Scotch Broth in the US in 2010 though it's still sold in Canada where it's made. Though you can get it through Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Campbells-Con...-Ounce/dp/B000FK8M64/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

And now it is under Gourmet food.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even worse are bags labeled "Gourmet Tortilla Chips." Somehow it's hard for me to picture James Beard curling up on his couch with the game on with a bag of overpriced "artisanal" Doritos.

 

[jamespowers]

Even worse are bags labeled "Gourmet Tortilla Chips." Somehow it's hard for me to picture James Beard curling up on his couch with the game on with a bag of overpriced "artisanal" Doritos.

lol lol
Well Taco Bell now makes taco shells out of Doritos. I guess that is an artisanal taco now.

 

[kiwilrdg]

I have had some tirtilla chips that I would consider artisanal. Handmade street-food tortillas. They did not have a label on the bag. They came in a plain brown paper bag and were dirt cheap. Not anything like any commercial chips.

 

[jamespowers]

I have had some tirtilla chips that I would consider artisanal. Handmade street-food tortillas. They did not have a label on the bag. They came in a plain brown paper bag and were dirt cheap. Not anything like any commercial chips.

The flies were free.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Gotta love blue corn.

 

[jamespowers]

Gotta love blue corn.

And green corn.

 

[Flicka]

Judging from the expression on the faces on the packages, mescaline seems to be a key ingredient in modern Campbell soup recipes.

But quinoa is really good. I really like grainy stuff like quinoa, bulghur, couscous and barley. The latter is very traditional here, but coming as I do from an area with plenty of immigrants of non-Scandinavian origin (which here also equals 'low income'), I've always eaten food from all over the world. I never saw 'exotic' food as posh or 'artisanal' since I learned about it from (decidedly un-posh) people I knew. While trendy here these days, there is nothing ridiculous or inherently fancy about, say, Ethiopian cuisine (my grandparents used to live there so I grew up acquainted with injera and wot). Likewise, something like nam plaa may sound fancy-pantsy but it's also a staple in the kitchen of Thai rice farmers...

But yeah, I do laugh at the people paying big bucks for speshul brands of speshul ingredients in tiny packages when I get them by the gallon for practically nothing at the local Arabic or Thai shop.

 

[jamespowers]

Judging from the expression on the faces on the packages, mescaline seems to be a key ingredient in modern Campbell soup recipes.

:rofl:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Campbell's new Go soups hits the supermarket shelves next month. I might give it a try lest anyone doubts my courage. lol