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sneakermom

Sun, Oct 27 2019, 8:32 pm

Apple cider vinegar
Red wine vinegar
Instant noodle soup
Sour dough bread
Sushi
Mango
Seedless watermelon
Mezonos bread came out when I was about twelve
Siracha sauce
Jalapeño dip
Any dips
Salad bags
Dark chicken cutlets
Salmon became popular when I was in high school.
Frozen broccoli, cauliflower etc
Chopsies pizza was the only frozen until I got older.
Gushers
Kosher granola bars
Celestial teas (we only had Lipton back in the day)
Flavored coffee
Wraps
Spelt products
Melba toast
We didn’t eat chummus, tehina or babaganush
We didn’t eat stir fry until I was grown up.
The only chinese food we ate was on great occasions at “yunkee” (a Chinese restaurant)
Israeli pickles were never heard of.
Lite mayo came out when I was about twelve
Greek yogurt
Frozen egg roll wrappers

Hashem_Yaazor

Sun, Oct 27 2019, 8:58 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

I had avocado growing up. I remember that’s what my mother sent me for lunch to the babysitter . But in those days nobody made guacamole. It was plain sliced avocado. We are talking 36 years ago.

My father grew up in the 50s. He had avocado salad Smile

Hashem_Yaazor

Sun, Oct 27 2019, 8:58 pm

southernbubby wrote:

Mothers often made their own baby formula out of canned condensed milk and Karo syrup. Similac was the only formula on the market when I was born and formula is a staple food for a baby.

That's why it was called formula. Doctors would give different recipes for different babies!

Hashem_Yaazor

Sun, Oct 27 2019, 9:01 pm

(Celestial Seasonings started in 1969....)

krembo

Sun, Nov 03 2019, 7:40 am

I have a cookbook from the 20s and there’s a recipe for avocado salad, but they called avocado “alligator pear”!

amother

Taupe

Sun, Nov 03 2019, 7:58 am

zaq wrote:

I agree about these things not being staples, but I'm impressed with your list. The only thing I could think of was olive oil with a hechsher. Olive oil from Spain was sold in all the bodegas and my neighbor bought it for his Chanuka licht, but there was none with a hechsher.

If we're talking non-staples, I'll add kosher nondairy creamer, kosher nondairy whipped topping aka "whip", and parve ice cream substitutes, none of which I consider to be a staple OR food, for that matter. I consider them plastic.

Of course there was no such thing as prechecked veggies or microwavable meals, but, then, there were no microwave ovens.

You don't need a hechsher for EVOL.

naomi2

Sun, Nov 03 2019, 11:53 am

I remember my mother kashering livers and grinding it up for shobbos. Now we buy in packages.
Greek yogurt. Before that we had only mehadrin yogurt with the lids that we saved. It came in in coffee, strawberry, blueberry, vanilla, and plain flavors only.
Hearts of palm came in a glass jar and was a big treat. Avocado was a treat too.

FranticFrummie

Sun, Nov 03 2019, 12:06 pm

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amother [ Orchid ] wrote:
Why can't you imagine using it? I like iceberg lettuce much more than romaine.

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It’s very low nutrition value. I think that’s why many avoid it.

I've never found bugs in iceberg when I lived in California, but in Israel it is IMPOSSIBLE to check, and every time I've bought it I've had to throw away the whole head. It will look perfect on the outside, and be completely infested in the middle. There would be no way to save even a single leaf.

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