Interlude: More Food Quotations from Days Forgotten
There is a slight hiatus on me telling you about food this week, as I am emotionally untethered. I got some unhappy news, which I've been expecting for a while, so I was knocked off kilter. However, I have been collecting more quotes from history about food, and I figured, why not share them now?
If you missed the first round, check it out first!
At least some of you liked this before, and so did I! So here are some more head-scratching food quotes from yesteryear. And also this cover from a recipe book put out by Sunkist in 1916. Because it's pretty, of course.
Of course everybody knows how to prepare rice waffles. --Washington Post, April 20, 1884
The fruit salad is an especially appetizing course to introduce at a spring breakfast. Properly speaking, this dish is not a salad, because it is not salted, as a salad by its derivation should be. --New York Tribune, May 9, 1897
A person should select his or her food according to the shape of his or her head. --The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health, June 1907
We do not consider being a genuine vegetarian, in any way[,] compels one to be a blooming idiot. --Vegetarian Magazine, March 1, 1923
"Eating is our chief occupation in college," she explained. --Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 25, 1900
Let us think of cabbages. --Good Housekeeping, May 1903
And it is true that salads, traditionally a woman's dish, are rapidly losing this distinction. --The ABC of Salads, 1958
Cranberries have a right to a turkey-less identity of their own. --The Berry Cookbook, 1980
The Englishman, who is still mighty on the face of the earth, eats a breakfast which would seriously tax the digestive apparatus of an ostrich or a goat, and goes on his way rejoicing --What to Have for Breakfast, 1905
To many people electric refrigeration is still such a novelty that they scarcely realize the range of its possibilities. It is almost like having an Aladdin's lamp and not knowing the right way to rub it. --Electric Refrigerator Menus and Recipes, 1927
Love last-century industrial/agricultural art. Having lived in the UK for 8 years, and learned about the breakfast that is known as 'the full English', or, 'fry-up', featuring three types of meat in one meal (even the thick white bread was fried in oil, in many cases), my fav was the quote from What to Have for Breakfast, 1905. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI've had the vegan version of the full English. It is a bit overwhelming, yes, but as I've understood it, it was necessary if you were engaged in hard labor. The American breakfasts of the 19th century weren't much different--meat-heavy, and lots of different elements. Quite stodgy, really.
DeleteA wonderful round up, I love these old quotes.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry you have had bad news. *hugs*
Something about looking through old magazines and such is soothing. Thanks for your kindness.
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