wordimagething

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wordimagething

wordimagething

@3640project

occasional random spurts of crucial importance, and then dead silence for twitter eons.

Overijssel, The Netherlands Katılım Şubat 2009
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wordimagething@3640project·
@R12D3 @CitizenAmedia There were more restaurants & better quality when I was in college in the 90s than when I was a kid in 70s/80s. It's become more common & easier to go out over the years. My kid's grown up w restaurants as a norm, but when I was young they were a special occasion.
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wordimagething@3640project·
@R12D3 @CitizenAmedia I think 80s/90s is distinct from 70s/80s, though. The post cold-war era began in the late 80s, & trade really opened up. Around when Toyotas got big in the US, sushi, thai food, new kinds of asian food did too. Vegetarianism started hitting the mainstream maybe w the Simpsons..
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Charles Bramesco
Charles Bramesco@intothecrevasse·
One of my favorite games is “Who’s the Most Famous Person in the World,” where you pick a country and guess who the most famous person from there is. Some are easy (Barbados—Rihanna), but I’m now wondering about France. Probably some footballer, right
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wordimagething@3640project·
@LBelle355 I remember those frozen peas, corn, carrots mix they sold at the supermarket. I had a hippie mom & in the summer we wld drive to get fresh corn, but in the winter that was the best we cld do.
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Willa, aka Liberty Belle, the 355 🇺🇸🔔
Willa, aka Liberty Belle, the 355 🇺🇸🔔@LBelle355·
When my mom was working nights as a nurse, & my dad came home in the evening from the machine shop, my brother & I had frozen pot pies & literal greens foraged from the woods (hippie dad) or frozen peas for dinner. I’m not exaggerating in any way. That was my childhood dinner *multiple* times a week. We laugh about it now, but it was just totally normal for us. My mom wasn’t there to cook, my dad was tired & didn’t know how to cook. Not once did we ever order pizza delivery, or any kind of food from a restaurant. Regularly ordering food/having someone else make your food just wasn’t a thing back then. It truly wasn’t. I don’t know anyone my age for whom it was. In so many aspects life has gotten better & easier for humanity as time has gone on, even in our own lifetimes & that’s just a fact. Stop whining.
Spring Time Seany ☦️@FloridaFloGrown

@NeedlesslyWordy Dude are serious? How old are you? Did you not order pizza growing up? It wasn't a luxury for rich people lol. It was just something you did when mom and dad were working late or tired

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wordimagething@3640project·
@R12D3 @CitizenAmedia That sounds believable as an average back then. There just weren't that many restaurants. My family went for ice cream, but going out for dinner wasn't really a thing. We only stopped at Mcds on road trips. I remember Indian or chinese at times but as a big outing..
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D3@R12D3·
@CitizenAmedia No data or memory is going to agree that Americans went out to eat only 3 times in a year
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wordimagething@3640project·
@ChristoFascisto Do you think I'm embarrassed to be female? I just don't understand what relevance you think it has
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wordimagething@3640project·
@SausageSpice @kracken696969 @BpdLion There were way fewer restaurants. My kid can prob name 10 restaurants in our town & we go out about 1x/wk. I can remember 2 ice cream parlors, a candy shop, 2 roller rinks, a pizza place, a bar my parents met friends at & a street w Indian restaurants from my childhood.
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Inevitable Pinky 🐡🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇬🇱🇪🇺
Inevitable Pinky 🐡🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇬🇱🇪🇺@BpdLion·
I hate this weird British genre of lying about the past, thinking they had some Oliver Twist existence. So sad.
Innocent Bystander@supertolerant

I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1

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wordimagething@3640project·
@ChristoFascisto what has that got to do with anything? Buying a fancy place in the 80s would mean making top salary - all the numbers look small now, but it used to mean a lot more going up 1K... Inflation doesn't translate exactly. If you weren't a rich type, cheap options had downsides
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wordimagething@3640project·
@VeryBadLlama People mostly said it was a treat. For my family it was only on road trips. The original tweet said our generation ate out more than they did bc it was cheaper. That's a misunderstanding. It was less standard then, there were fewer options, & it was not the cultural norm
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Janel Comeau 🍁@VeryBadLlama·
isn’t it incredible that McDonalds sold their billionth burger by 1963 and their 80 billionth by 1990 when apparently no one was ever buying fast food?
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Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk

Just so you know. Boomers didn't have fast food. Except fish and chips. Boomers didn't have ready meals. Except Vesta beef curry. Look it up. Boomers didn't have colour TVs, front loading washing machines, central heating or holidays abroad. Boomers didn't have babymoons or baby showers nor did they go on stag or hen weekends. Boomers didn't go to restaurants. Except on birthdays. Boomers didn't have new clothes every year, every season. They made do and mended. But Boomers had a fabulous time in the 1960s to 1980s because people were friendly, respectful, dignified and hardworking. Boomers also had law and order and a judiciary who punished ALL criminals. Boomers were happy with their lot. Yes. I'm a Boomer. Just so you know.

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wordimagething@3640project·
@ChristoFascisto well sure, everyone can look back & say, oh if only I could've got in on Apple back when... but that doesn't mean you expect to be able to buy Apple stock now for the same price. W real estate, lots of places were cheap bc they were far off, run down, bad infrastructure & so on
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wordimagething@3640project·
@ChristoFascisto I don't really understand what solution you're proposing to this so-called problem. It's a market. People spent a lot of money on a product that's in high demand. It's worth enough to people that they sell it & make a profit. Get in on it or don't? What other answer do you see?
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wordimagething@3640project·
@KidsShawne @ChristoFascisto ok, well if that's true then they're lucky, since if the bubble bursts they'll get cheap houses, instead of having had to pay huge prices and end up not getting their money back. I guess it's up to them if they think the investment is worth it, which is how investments work...
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Mango George
Mango George@KidsShawne·
@3640project @ChristoFascisto That isn't true anymore. It has been, but the values are so high now that nobody can afford to buy. It's a bubble. Sellers can't sell because there isn't anyone crazy enough to buy. Buying and selling homes right now is like playing hot potato. Who's left holding the bag?
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wordimagething@3640project·
@ChristoFascisto I don't know if this is a good way for a market to expand - how long can it keep going up? - & maybe the housing market will bust bc kids don't want to bother. But it's not like previous generations didn't save & borrow to pay for real estate, expecting it to continue to accrue
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wordimagething@3640project·
@HakureiRyan @rcondiscord My parents were the hippie type boomers. They didn't eat much fast food. They went to health food stores to get fresh produce, unprocessed spreads, nuts & other exotic food supermarkets didn't sell. Now it's anywhere, but that wasn't true in the 70s/80s.
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HakureiRyan
HakureiRyan@HakureiRyan·
The explosion of fast food happened under boomers, they were most certainly eating fast food a lot more than they selectively remember now. My boomer grandparents, on both sides, would tell me back in their day you'd be made fun of if you brought food from home a lot. Also, boomers handed us every single problem we face today, and think we can solve these issues by packing a lunch. - Anti-nuclearism? Boomers - The end of the gold standard? Boomers - Wokism? Boomers - The Sexual Revolution and the re-ignition of feminism? Boomers - The Hippie Movement? Boomers Yes, people forget boomers were Generation Woke. The disgruntled hippies that never grew out of it moved on to be college professors, thus poisoning the minds of many millennials when they got into college. Also, a larger percentage of boomers voted for Obama in 08 than McCain.
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R/Conservative@rcondiscord·
Re: Gen Z and food. 1.) Stop calling everybody old enough to grow facial hair a Boomer. It is making you confused. 2.) Actual Boomers are in their 70's and 80's, and did not grow up eating fast food every day. 3.) Gen X grew up when peak T.V. dinner was replaced by the invention of the Dollar Menu, and while we did eat tons of fast food by the time we got to the work force, most of us saw the Arby's Five for Five as some sort of miracle, and never forgot about ramen and hot dogs. The Dollar Menu was killed by covid and minimum wage, and it does suck. You do have it worse than Gen X did living in the 1$ McDouble era. Nevertheless, the solutions proposed by Actual Boomers are the valid solutions to your situation.
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wordimagething@3640project·
@AlexJayMac @HermanStravinsk @AllyFogg I would assume you're a paid bot from the way you're responding but your page looks like a real person so I'm confused. If you're actually a reporter I do feel more confident not to trust the media... you aren't even asking questions or trying to understand
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wordimagething@3640project·
@AlexJayMac @HermanStravinsk @AllyFogg Wait, you really think you could get sushi in a supermarket in the 70s/80s? Sushi was first available in late 80s/90s in fancy restaurants in big cities. My dad took me to one on my 16th bday bc I was going vegetarian but wanted to try it first. It was a super special occasion
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