[Sca-cooks] Re: 50's vs '70s

[a5foil]

Well, I remember my dad (the tech-gadget junkie) bringing home one of the
first commercial microwaves, when I was in high school, so definitely
pre-1968. Amana RadaRange, I think it was called. The only thing we ever
used it for was defrosting bread. Well, yes, er, we did try the "baked"
potato just to see if it worked. Snicker.

I do remember that we weren't afraid of food. Granted there was some pretty
bad food, but I also remember helping make ice cream in a hand cranked
freezer, all the kids taking turns, and nobody screaming about fat or carbs.
And Trix, raspberry red, lemon yellow, and orange orange. I loved it, and
probably still would if it was still round and just three colors. It turned
the milk such a lovely color ...

And doesn't the '64 Mustang kind of balance the bad bell bottoms? I don't
actually remember anyone *real* wearing them, just Sonny and Cher.

Cynara


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorenz Wieland" <lorenz_wieland at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: 50's vs '70s


> Carper, Rachel wrote:
>
> >MICROWAVE OVENS!  I knew something good had to come out of the 70's.
> >
> >
> I'll second the previous mentions of music and movies, but microwave
> ovens were invented in the 40's, first marketed to commercial cooks in
> the 50's, and domesticated in the 60's:
>
> http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story068.htm
>
> (I first saw one in the 70's, too, though.)
>
> -Lorenz
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