And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Plastic peas . . . 40 weight brown gravy. Swanson - Nighthawk and others. I remember those well. Those packages stored easily in freezer compartments and zero clean up except for utensils.
I actually like the meat and gravy, but the peas were yucky. Can't afford to use the electric oven now. The foil pans much better for you than todays plastic.
Hell. I worked in the food plant that made them, or one of them. Campbell's Soup plant, in Listowel, ON.CA, back in the seventies. Locally grown turkeys. Seconds in the company store, 50 cents.
Ate a ton of Banquet pot pies in my younger days. Before that I skipped meals in company mess hall in Vietnam. Lived on C-rations for 2-1\2 years. Carried those things while flying and ate them cold. Glad to get them and wouldn't mind having some more! 116th Assault Helicopter Company based at the 25th Infantry Divisions base camp at Cu Chi. No Regrets!
Those peas looked the exact same color coming out as they were going in... I won't eat frozen peas to this day. I do eat the hungry man dinners when I'm alone working at my BOL. They are better than a lot of stuff, and easy to store and prepare...
In the early 70s I worked at the asbestos plant in Copperopolis on the 7pm to 5am shift. The welders kept their rods in an old refrigerator that had a heat lamp in it to keep them dry. I bought a couple of these and put one in there; by lunch at midnight they were nice and warm. But the taste and the cost did not fit, so my wife would reuse the tins and put homemade dinner in them. Those were the days; I was knocking down $2.90/hour for a family of three with 10-hour shifts, and an hour commute each way from Tuolumne City.
It was 1955 and I was in 3rd grade. My mother served us TV dinners and my two sisters, and I thought that the Earth moved, and Heaven was in our living room. Of course, dinner was served on TV trays in front of our little portable B&W TV.
These were a special treat when I was comin' up. I loved em'. The corned beef and hash and beans and wieners were my favorite. The warm apples were great too. Too bad they dont make em' anymore. I'd still buy them. Anybody remember the "Boilier Bags" ? Beef and gravy and Turkey and gravy? or how bout Sizzleean Bacon? I loved all of it.
I really liked those boiler bags. They'd be so expensive now you couldn't afford them. They've deliberately destroyed our food just like they did healthcare and automobiles. Who's THEY? Why government and bureaucrats who have enriched themselves at our expense.
Popular yet tasted like shit, except the little dessert panel.
ReplyDeleteTolerable, not popular
ReplyDeleteThe Hungry Man version is a favorite of mine. Feel like I'm the only one.
ReplyDeleteI cannot tell you how many of those I ate growing up.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, I didn’t know any better.
Plastic peas . . . 40 weight brown gravy. Swanson - Nighthawk and others. I remember those well. Those packages stored easily in freezer compartments and zero clean up except for utensils.
ReplyDeleteGreat ZZ Top song.
Does anyone remember Le Menu? allegedly first class airline meals. I would stock up big time if those came back
ReplyDeleteI actually like the meat and gravy, but the peas were yucky. Can't afford to use the electric oven now. The foil pans much better for you than todays plastic.
ReplyDeleteAte a lot as a kid but in fairness mom worked often at night.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed all you commentors are still kickin' after eating those!
ReplyDeleteHell. I worked in the food plant that made them, or one of them. Campbell's Soup plant, in Listowel, ON.CA, back in the seventies. Locally grown turkeys. Seconds in the company store, 50 cents.
DeleteI remember the Baked Haddock in Cream Sauce in Grad School mid 1960s. I actually miss it now.
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Remember those well. They were still around when we got back from Germany in '69. Can't remember the last time I saw one.
ReplyDeleteAte a ton of Banquet pot pies in my younger days. Before that I skipped meals in company mess hall in Vietnam. Lived on C-rations for 2-1\2 years. Carried those things while flying and ate them cold. Glad to get them and wouldn't mind having some more! 116th Assault Helicopter Company based at the 25th Infantry Divisions base camp at Cu Chi. No Regrets!
ReplyDeleteThose peas looked the exact same color coming out as they were going in... I won't eat frozen peas to this day. I do eat the hungry man dinners when I'm alone working at my BOL. They are better than a lot of stuff, and easy to store and prepare...
ReplyDeletenick
Frozen peas and other veggies work well in beef vegetable soup. Yum. It's what's for dinner.
DeleteI can still hear my dad after a long day at work saying can’t we eat something other than these *#!!**%#! TV dinners!! (He was a better cook than mom)
ReplyDeleteIn the early 70s I worked at the asbestos plant in Copperopolis on the 7pm to 5am shift. The welders kept their rods in an old refrigerator that had a heat lamp in it to keep them dry. I bought a couple of these and put one in there; by lunch at midnight they were nice and warm. But the taste and the cost did not fit, so my wife would reuse the tins and put homemade dinner in them. Those were the days; I was knocking down $2.90/hour for a family of three with 10-hour shifts, and an hour commute each way from Tuolumne City.
ReplyDeleteNever liked Swanson's, occasionally still have Banquet fried chicken. Not great, but easy.
ReplyDeleteIt was 1955 and I was in 3rd grade. My mother served us TV dinners and my two sisters, and I thought that the Earth moved, and Heaven was in our living room. Of course, dinner was served on TV trays in front of our little portable B&W TV.
ReplyDeleteSwanson - Tucker Carlson's Family Money
ReplyDeleteThese were a special treat when I was comin' up. I loved em'. The corned beef and hash and beans and wieners were my favorite. The warm apples were great too. Too bad they dont make em' anymore. I'd still buy them. Anybody remember the "Boilier Bags" ? Beef and gravy and Turkey and gravy? or how bout Sizzleean Bacon? I loved all of it.
ReplyDeleteI really liked those boiler bags. They'd be so expensive now you couldn't afford them. They've deliberately destroyed our food just like they did healthcare and automobiles. Who's THEY? Why government and bureaucrats who have enriched themselves at our expense.
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