for some reason i see pics of old 1950s american food often, and man so much of it just sounds SO gross and cursed. ham banana mayonnaise sundaes? JellO with the hot dog chunks? do the good ol days include terrible 1950s food right??
no dentistry was pretty close to where its at now if a little less accessible. the fluoride in the water making the frogs gay has in fact very much improved dental health since the 50s see cawsby's comment below
abominable jelly is resultant of the company Jello going out and publishing/giving away thousands of recipes in an effort to implicate their product in as many situations as possible
Dentistry has radically changed since the mid 20th century in America. Tooth loss in America has been declining steadily almost everywhere except rural areas.
Fluoride toothpaste did not become widely available until the mid 1950's with Crest, and then the ADA required it. With more and more water systems adding fluoride in the late 20th century tooth decay slowed dramatically.
Before that people were scrubbing their teeth with all sorts of crazy shit like penicillin, ammonia, and even radium.
Dental caries and periodontal disease are the major causes of tooth loss.22,23 Until roughly the 1970s, virtually all children and adults in the United States had dental caries, and almost all adults developed periodontal disease.24,25 As shown in Figure 1,in the 1950s approximately 80 percent of children thirteen to fifteen years of age had gingivitis. Peri-odontitis was observed to begin in the late teenage years and to increase almost linearly until early middle age after which close to 100 percent of the adult population under sixty years was affected.
i went to askhistorians to get a handle on it and it was pretty unhelpful, and i didn't really know where else to go for hard stats. i kinda gave up cause my point was less about dentistry than the ad campaign
i'll slap a correction on the bottom this is neat info
Also, gelatin was finally affordable to regular people, and the industrial processes could remove all of the meat taste so now it could be used in sweet dishes as well.
It's because the industrial processes to produce ready-to-use gelatin came about, so what was previously something weird that only rich people could afford (before that producing gelatin was a long and grueling process that required considerably skilled labor) and which occupied a prestige place as a result suddenly became cheaply available to a bunch of nominally-upwardly-mobile suburbanite weirdos who wanted to present themselves as wealthy.
Same way they killed Elvis, it's a drug more addictive and dangerous than cocaine.
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just kidding. Peanut Butter is really dense and sugary fatty, and Elvis famously loved PB&B until he died of a heart attack at 46 which his terrible diet undoubtedly contributed to.
Hmm, the major brands do, but looking it up it's a pretty small amount. The calories in Peanut Butter almost all come from fat even when they add 2 or 3g of sugar to it. Describing it as "sugary" instead of "fatty" was my bad.
for some reason i see pics of old 1950s american food often, and man so much of it just sounds SO gross and cursed. ham banana mayonnaise sundaes? JellO with the hot dog chunks? do the good ol days include terrible 1950s food right??
It's because people could afford refrigerators iirc and just went ham with cold foods
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Those weird Jell-O meat/veg abominations were during an era where many people had no teeth or bad teeth.
no dentistry was pretty close to where its at now if a little less accessible.the fluoride in the water making the frogs gay has in fact very much improved dental health since the 50s see cawsby's comment belowabominable jelly is resultant of the company Jello going out and publishing/giving away thousands of recipes in an effort to implicate their product in as many situations as possible
Dentistry has radically changed since the mid 20th century in America. Tooth loss in America has been declining steadily almost everywhere except rural areas.
Fluoride toothpaste did not become widely available until the mid 1950's with Crest, and then the ADA required it. With more and more water systems adding fluoride in the late 20th century tooth decay slowed dramatically.
Before that people were scrubbing their teeth with all sorts of crazy shit like penicillin, ammonia, and even radium.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7844870_The_Oral_Health_Information_Suite_OHIS_Its_Use_in_the_Management_of_Periodontal_Disease#pf2
i went to askhistorians to get a handle on it and it was pretty unhelpful, and i didn't really know where else to go for hard stats. i kinda gave up cause my point was less about dentistry than the ad campaign
i'll slap a correction on the bottom this is neat info
I only know because I have a know-it-all dentist in the family.
Also, gelatin was finally affordable to regular people, and the industrial processes could remove all of the meat taste so now it could be used in sweet dishes as well.
I like that you phrased it this way.
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It's because the industrial processes to produce ready-to-use gelatin came about, so what was previously something weird that only rich people could afford (before that producing gelatin was a long and grueling process that required considerably skilled labor) and which occupied a prestige place as a result suddenly became cheaply available to a bunch of nominally-upwardly-mobile suburbanite weirdos who wanted to present themselves as wealthy.
everyone was smoking cigarettes and no one had taste buds
I tried a peanut butter and mayo sandwich from the 50’s. Actually not that bad
PB and Banana is amazing but it will kill you so eat at your own risk.
:soviet-hmm: how so
Same way they killed Elvis, it's a drug more addictive and dangerous than cocaine.
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just kidding. Peanut Butter is really dense and
sugaryfatty, and Elvis famously loved PB&B until he died of a heart attack at 46 which his terrible diet undoubtedly contributed to.:thinkin-lenin: I see
Is this a thing where US peanut butter, like US bread, is a completely different sugar-pumped thing to everywhere else?
Hmm, the major brands do, but looking it up it's a pretty small amount. The calories in Peanut Butter almost all come from fat even when they add 2 or 3g of sugar to it. Describing it as "sugary" instead of "fatty" was my bad.
Try a peanut butter and butter sandwich.
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It was still edible?
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This ur brain when u think Italians are not white and have yet to have had a single interaction with a Mexican.