This is ahistorical nonsense. In the 1950s, the vast majority of meals were cooked and eaten at home. (75% to 40% today) Food out was a rare treat, and options were much less expensive and expectations much lower.

Here's a menu from 1955. That beef stew in today dollars is almost $14. $13 for fish sticks. The pancake breakfast, almost ten. I can get that same breakfast at any diner in town for eight today.

@Recursion_Agent I know this is hard to believe, but history began before 1950 and countries exist outside the US. In farmsteading societies home cooking is the norm, but in ones with concentrated centers of labor communal eating is. The US is stuck with a farmsteading culture in an urban economy

@Recursion_Agent 1950s is not when Boomers were adults, that is the parents of the Boomers - the 'Greatest Generation' was 1950s, the Boomers were parents of Gen X during the 80s and 90s.

@Recursion_Agent Riddle me this, Batman. Why are so many people afraid of cooking?

@Recursion_Agent I don't know why this dialogue is triggering me so damn much but you're right--ABSOLUTELY--these people are propaganda-pushing liars who speak over other people's lived experiences & historical realities. The Horn & Hardart automats were mainly reserved for BIG CITIES, not

holy fucking shit I can't believe this is real. Have these people ever actually been poor? You are poor when you seek out the absolute cheapest food at the absolute cheapest places. That means you pay attention to sales and coupons like crazy, you eat a lot of leftovers, and you eat extremely basic cheap home cooked food. In some cases it was cheaper to buy bread than to make it, but only when the bread was extremely cheap or discounted. You learn how to freeze things so you can have stock of cheap items when you have coupons or when you find sales. You learn that some food can be turned into other food when it's leftover, like chicken can become chicken salad, and broth can be captured and frozen after cooking chicken. vegetable scraps can be boiled down into vegetable stock. nobody bought bottled water and not many people I knew bought pop/soda. Boiled potatoes with butter were very common, sometimes with "ground beef gravy" which can be had cheaply if you watch for sales or coupons and use your freezer. You can pick your own apples or get discounted apples that are not "A1" quality from an orchard and turn those into other foodstuffs. Same with other fruit that I remember during childhood. Hunting actually did put real food on the table, if you were taught how to do it. Same with fishing, if you had a good spot or spots. if you had even a small amount of land you would feed chickens leftovers that weren't enough to be used again, and you got eggs. If you feed your chickens they don't need a huge amount of space. Obviously this won't work if you live in an apartment but sometimes a co-op will exist that you can participate in. My grandparents did eat out, but it was not very regular. the vast majority of meals were cooked at home. Same for my mother and father who were boomers. We lived in an apartment in the shitty part of town for at least the first 9 years of my life.

@Recursion_Agent The 1950s is still modern, or rather contemporary, from a historical view. The single family home is a very "modern" trend. Pre WWII even if families were eating at home, it was on a much larger scale as the home was made up of multiple "families"

@Recursion_Agent In my case it was 99 percent.

@Recursion_Agent And the 1950’s food was a small piece of meat, a starch, some mixed vegetables, and milk. Jello for dessert, with coffee for the adults. Sunday was a roast with vegetables and potatoes. Pie or cake was a special Sunday treat. Food was incredibly simple.

@Recursion_Agent Eating out 25% of time is still 5 meals a week. That is hardly a rare treat.

@Recursion_Agent It would seem that the whole lunch discourse hinges on whether or not one recognizes the 20th century as a part of modern history, and I’m at pains to understand why anyone would not.

@Recursion_Agent Where do these yahoos come from? You’d hope they’d at least try to cite something…anything to back up their ludicrous assertions 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Recursion_Agent It's maddening. The stats are easy to look up. And it's plainly obvious that their entire generation is obese. It's not a mystery

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