autowasherfreak
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A friend sent me this thinking I wouldn't know what Woolworths was. Silly girl should have known better, LOL.
Woolworth's Sandwich Menu
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danemodsandy
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If You'll Look Closely:
That menu is dated, down in the lower right corner. While the photo isn't clear enough for me to read the month, the year is 1960. I think the month is 9 (September), but PhotoShop isn't able to make it legible for me.
We need places - and prices! - like that to come back. Where would you even go to get a freshly made egg salad sandwich today? In my area, there is every kind of fast food and ethnic food available, but not the plain, sensible food that used to be everywhere.
That menu is dated, down in the lower right corner. While the photo isn't clear enough for me to read the month, the year is 1960. I think the month is 9 (September), but PhotoShop isn't able to make it legible for me.
We need places - and prices! - like that to come back. Where would you even go to get a freshly made egg salad sandwich today? In my area, there is every kind of fast food and ethnic food available, but not the plain, sensible food that used to be everywhere.
seamusuk
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Over here....
Seeing that is very topical- see link..
Seamus
Seeing that is very topical- see link..
Seamus
seamusuk
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25 years ago....
Things were very different.....
Things were very different.....
seamusuk
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And the following years......
It makes you think- most of those items would be far cheaper today......
It makes you think- most of those items would be far cheaper today......
A suggestion--
before everyone wails about prices gone by.
The Inflation Calculator. See linkie.
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before everyone wails about prices gone by.
The Inflation Calculator. See linkie.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
The Inflation Calculator
The following form adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2024. Enjoy!
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ronhic
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Here is the Australian one from the RBA
it is scary....but more interestingly, it will be fun to watch my folks use it as they are always saying 'things are sooo expensive now'
it is scary....but more interestingly, it will be fun to watch my folks use it as they are always saying 'things are sooo expensive now'
whitekingd
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Thank You!
This must be he menu my mother used to order off of when she was a little kid! She used to tell me about the $.15 chocolate cake. What a blast! I miss our Woolworth here in Tacoma.
This must be he menu my mother used to order off of when she was a little kid! She used to tell me about the $.15 chocolate cake. What a blast! I miss our Woolworth here in Tacoma.
Sensible food.
In Chicago I had both a Woolworths and a Walgreens across from my first job and both were equipped with working restaurants. Both are etched in my mind as being very perfunctory purveyors of sensible food. Woolworths would give you a burger and cole-slaw for a few bucks and it was simply GOOD food - not this fast-food crap all the kids are getting obese with. I miss it. The chocolate shakes at Walgreens were fabulous.
Of course I took note of the appliances which (at Woolworths) were Toastmaster and Bastien-Blessing.
In Chicago I had both a Woolworths and a Walgreens across from my first job and both were equipped with working restaurants. Both are etched in my mind as being very perfunctory purveyors of sensible food. Woolworths would give you a burger and cole-slaw for a few bucks and it was simply GOOD food - not this fast-food crap all the kids are getting obese with. I miss it. The chocolate shakes at Walgreens were fabulous.
Of course I took note of the appliances which (at Woolworths) were Toastmaster and Bastien-Blessing.
But where's the Monte Cristo Sandwich?
Also notice the tag at the end "Have a Coke, it goes good with food." This was the era when people drank milk with their lunch.
Also notice the tag at the end "Have a Coke, it goes good with food." This was the era when people drank milk with their lunch.
Soda Fountain
I remember going to the 'junction' for cheery cokes (the real stuff) with my mom in the early '60s, off to the library and then to the Woolworth's lunch counter for lunch before we took the bus back home.
I wonder if people today would even recognize such 'real' food? My nieces don't like the taste of real whipped cream, it 'doesn't taste like cool-whip', American 'sharp' cheddar is way too strong for their sliced-American Pasteurized Process Cheesefood tastes...bet you'd have to rework the menus, dumbing all the real taste down, adding salt and grease in enormous quantities and add background noise and too bright colors to even get the younger generation to walk in through the door.
I remember going to the 'junction' for cheery cokes (the real stuff) with my mom in the early '60s, off to the library and then to the Woolworth's lunch counter for lunch before we took the bus back home.
I wonder if people today would even recognize such 'real' food? My nieces don't like the taste of real whipped cream, it 'doesn't taste like cool-whip', American 'sharp' cheddar is way too strong for their sliced-American Pasteurized Process Cheesefood tastes...bet you'd have to rework the menus, dumbing all the real taste down, adding salt and grease in enormous quantities and add background noise and too bright colors to even get the younger generation to walk in through the door.
rocketwarrior
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"Good Food"
It seems like what is being described here as "good" food is what, in some contexts, people refer to as "comfort food." Woolworth's was never a place to get a good, balanced meal - but that's not the point.
Kids (and adults) are not obese because of fast food. They are obese because of the relationship between activity level and calories. The suggestion that if they ate at home, or at Woolworth's, they wouldn't become obese doesn't get it.
There is no such thing as junk food. What people/kids need to know is what food or food combinations they need and what activity level must be maintained.
A miner in Africa, who walks miles to and fro work every day might find that 2 liters of coke and a bag of chips is the perfect lunch - carbo load, portable, adequate salt, hydration.
If an Olympic athlete is in South Korea and doesn't want to get sick, he or she is going to eat at McDonald's. Fast food establishments step in to feed masses - filling a void, or meeting a need, that the consumer has created.
Woolworth's or vintage 'home cooked' is a comfortable bit of nostalgia but does not represent a superior food. June Cleaver was not preparing 'health food.'
It seems like what is being described here as "good" food is what, in some contexts, people refer to as "comfort food." Woolworth's was never a place to get a good, balanced meal - but that's not the point.
Kids (and adults) are not obese because of fast food. They are obese because of the relationship between activity level and calories. The suggestion that if they ate at home, or at Woolworth's, they wouldn't become obese doesn't get it.
There is no such thing as junk food. What people/kids need to know is what food or food combinations they need and what activity level must be maintained.
A miner in Africa, who walks miles to and fro work every day might find that 2 liters of coke and a bag of chips is the perfect lunch - carbo load, portable, adequate salt, hydration.
If an Olympic athlete is in South Korea and doesn't want to get sick, he or she is going to eat at McDonald's. Fast food establishments step in to feed masses - filling a void, or meeting a need, that the consumer has created.
Woolworth's or vintage 'home cooked' is a comfortable bit of nostalgia but does not represent a superior food. June Cleaver was not preparing 'health food.'
whirlaway
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Very Healthy Lunches
That menu is only part of what Woolworths sold at the food counters.They served very healthy Blue Plate Specials.Most made right in the store.The best gravies and cole-slaw and cabbage and other meats and veggies.I ate many a meal there,when I started at the phone company in 72 and as a child.The food was very tasty.Fast food today is garbage.We still have a few 1950s hamburger stands left and the burgers are so different than the others.I think they put a high content of sugar in many fast food products.
That menu is only part of what Woolworths sold at the food counters.They served very healthy Blue Plate Specials.Most made right in the store.The best gravies and cole-slaw and cabbage and other meats and veggies.I ate many a meal there,when I started at the phone company in 72 and as a child.The food was very tasty.Fast food today is garbage.We still have a few 1950s hamburger stands left and the burgers are so different than the others.I think they put a high content of sugar in many fast food products.
danemodsandy
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Mark:
From the standpoint of avoiding obesity and that of nutrition, give me a Woolworth's egg salad sandwich and a glass of milk any day, as opposed to something like a Wendy's Baconator or Burger King Whopper with supersize fries and a biggie soft drink.
While neither extreme would represent optimal nutrition, the 1960 Woolworth's choice was better than today's. I know that salads and whatnot are available at today's burger joints, but how many of their customers do you actually see having the salad and nothing else, or the salad instead of the fries? Precious few.
Fast food wasn't always the way it is now; I remember McDonald's back in the '60s, when you had one of their little hamburgers (the one almost no one orders today), a small serving of fries (no one stops at that today, either), and an 8-ounce serving of Coke (not enough to wet anyone's whistle now). Many fewer calories and far less fat than today's beef-bacon-and-cheese extravaganzas. Plus, back then, fast food was something of a treat - you didn't eat it every day, or even every week. It was considered an indulgence, which in my view, was the correct view.
By the way, I don't know about every Woolworth's, but the ones here in Atlanta had plated meals available in addition to the fountain menu. You could get something like chicken or ham or Salisbury steak as an entree, plus a choice of veggies. You'll play hell finding that kind of solid, traditional hot lunch today.
From the standpoint of avoiding obesity and that of nutrition, give me a Woolworth's egg salad sandwich and a glass of milk any day, as opposed to something like a Wendy's Baconator or Burger King Whopper with supersize fries and a biggie soft drink.
While neither extreme would represent optimal nutrition, the 1960 Woolworth's choice was better than today's. I know that salads and whatnot are available at today's burger joints, but how many of their customers do you actually see having the salad and nothing else, or the salad instead of the fries? Precious few.
Fast food wasn't always the way it is now; I remember McDonald's back in the '60s, when you had one of their little hamburgers (the one almost no one orders today), a small serving of fries (no one stops at that today, either), and an 8-ounce serving of Coke (not enough to wet anyone's whistle now). Many fewer calories and far less fat than today's beef-bacon-and-cheese extravaganzas. Plus, back then, fast food was something of a treat - you didn't eat it every day, or even every week. It was considered an indulgence, which in my view, was the correct view.
By the way, I don't know about every Woolworth's, but the ones here in Atlanta had plated meals available in addition to the fountain menu. You could get something like chicken or ham or Salisbury steak as an entree, plus a choice of veggies. You'll play hell finding that kind of solid, traditional hot lunch today.
Sure you can find that kind of hot lunch today, just live out in rural Ohio like I do. Other than McD's, we have lots of mom and pop homestyle food restaurants. The food is generally meat and potatoes with a vegetable side, usually with a salad and rolls also. One even gives you all that plus a cup of soup. There's always leftovers when we go there. You'd be hard pressed to find a dinner plate for more than $12.
Lisa
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