Eating in the fifties

[Grub Master]

Maxwell House can for us. All the grease went into it.

We never got to the bottom. Wonder what the shelf life is on bacon grease

 

[joel2000]

Good item we had to eat in the fifties was a
cake with raisins and white icing mom got
from A&P store. It was either 29 or 49 cents.

Still have a small jar with saved bacon grease
by the stove.

I save bacon grease and use it in my cornbread.

 

[41mag]

Cell phones in the 50’s ??

 

[basstracker89]

Don’t think it could be said any better! I miss all the good cooking from my mom and grandma. Only can stuff we had came from what we canned from the garden. We traded fresh eggs for beef and milk / buttermilk with our neighbors and made our on sausage, bacon, pork chops and fatback. Yes sir…we really had it good.

I remember raising hogs when I was a little kid. On butchering day we always had fresh sausage. I was in grade school and I remember that being the best sausage I ever had

 

[wozeyjales]

I save bacon grease and use it in my cornbread.

I put some of the french's fried onions
in my cornbread batter. Try crumpled
bacon bits instead of just the grease.
Cornbread topping is about my only
use for molasses. Don't know about
ya'll but I'm getting hungry

 

[palmettomoon]

Unless I'm misremembering, bran (late 80's health craze) was something used for feeding livestock and "Select" grade meats were sold (late 60's, early 70's) to customers at my dad's grocery store for feeding their dogs.

 

[joel2000]

I put some of the french's fried onions
in my cornbread batter. Try crumpled
bacon bits instead of just the grease.
Cornbread topping is about my only
use for molasses. Don't know about
ya'll but I'm getting hungry

The fried onions sounds pretty damn good… I’m gonna try that.
Yea, I’m getting hungry

 

[palmettomoon]

Anybody remember the coffee cup or can of bacon grease on the back of the stove. It never went bad and you never got to the bottom of it.

I still use it to fry lacy (or hot water) cornbread. No other fat works as well as bacon grease.

 

[joel2000]

Unless I'm misremembering, bran (late 80's health craze) was something used for feeding livestock and "Select" grade meats were sold to customers at my dad's grocery store for feeding their dogs.

Don’t know about that but…what I do remember was my grandpa would go to the local school and get buckets of food for the pigs…aka pig slop

 

[palmettomoon]

Don’t know about that but…what I do remember was my grandpa would go to the local school and get buckets of food for the pigs…aka pig slop

When I worked at Kroger (nights while at UGA in 80's) we dumped all the sweet goods (baked items) that were out of date in a locked dumpster (to keep the bums from rummaging) for the local hog farmer to pick up.