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A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by sandos »

jotm wrote: post #53
camhart wrote: post #46

I can't stand "normal" milk from the US... the stuff you buy in the plastic cartons. It taste horrid. Milk from Germany? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the paper cartons? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the plastic? Tastes like garbage. Organic milk in a paper carton? Some is good, some taste like garbage. I didn't realize how different milk tastes until I spent some time in Germany. Prior to that I just thought I…

Most German milk is either "long life" or UHT, both of which taste better to me than "normal" pasteurized milk, which is the most common in England, for example. The three different pasteurization techniques result in different tasting milk. I do notice a difference between foil lined carton, plastic jug and carton milk, the latter usually tastes the worst probably because the carton is more permeable? But I do love…

Yeah the UHT milk tastes sweeter apparently.

I dont drink milk any more due to lactose intolerance, but only one time I noticed a real difference in milk taste, and that was when the milk very super-clearly to me tasted of almonds.

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by dieselgate »

chucknthem wrote: post #48
camhart wrote: post #46

I can't stand "normal" milk from the US... the stuff you buy in the plastic cartons. It taste horrid. Milk from Germany? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the paper cartons? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the plastic? Tastes like garbage. Organic milk in a paper carton? Some is good, some taste like garbage. I didn't realize how different milk tastes until I spent some time in Germany. Prior to that I just thought I…

My family has been getting milk from a brand called Straus family creamery which is available in glass bottles in northern California. Best tasting I've found around here.

Grew up on the same street as a Straus dairy. Kinda interesting how the dairies for different milk labels in that area (Straus, Clover, Lucerne) all basically have the same land and cows - but the milk will taste quite different across the labels. I’ve always preferred plastic jug to paper carton myself. Wish Straus came in bigger bottles..

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by dieselgate »

asguy wrote: post #2

Reading this, I feel like I’m seeing the past through the eyes of a US-based zoomer. This person should spend 6 months living with the locals in any 3rd-world country.

This comment made me think of the food show called Hyper Hardboiled Gourmet Report

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by dmitriy_ko »

jasonkester wrote: post #51
camhart wrote: post #46

I can't stand "normal" milk from the US... the stuff you buy in the plastic cartons. It taste horrid. Milk from Germany? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the paper cartons? I love it. Milk from Darigold in the plastic? Tastes like garbage. Organic milk in a paper carton? Some is good, some taste like garbage. I didn't realize how different milk tastes until I spent some time in Germany. Prior to that I just thought I…

Even milk from the same dairy tastes radically different in plastic than paper. I always hated plastic milk as a kid. Nobody else seemed to notice the difference though. I sometimes wonder if there’s only a small subset of the population that can notice it.

Are you sure the difference is not in your head? Try to do a blind experiment. Ask someone to pour a glass of milk from plastic container and a another glass from paper container and see if you can tell which is which.

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by namdnay »

asicsp wrote: post #52
Rodeoclash wrote: post #8

> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today. At least in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand it's not unusual at all to find pancakes or waffles with banana + maple syrup and bacon together. https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/

Vazhakkai Poriyal (made with raw bananas, vegetable side dish) is pretty common here in India.

those are plantains I think, not the "sweet bananas" referred to here

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by namdnay »

morsch wrote: post #45
nwatson wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prosciutto-wrapped cantaloupe is standard Italian fare (prosciutto e melone), I can't see bacon-wrapped banana unreasonably far from that. Going to try it tomorrow morning.

Also, Bacon-Wrapped Dates. But I suppose the question is not so much if it'd be any good, but whether it's common. And I've never seen bacon wrapped banana, either.

now you've got me wondering what is the subset of countries that both grow dates and eat bacon :)

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by namdnay »

sandos wrote: post #81
jotm wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most German milk is either "long life" or UHT, both of which taste better to me than "normal" pasteurized milk, which is the most common in England, for example. The three different pasteurization techniques result in different tasting milk. I do notice a difference between foil lined carton, plastic jug and carton milk, the latter usually tastes the worst probably because the carton is more permeable? But I do love…

Yeah the UHT milk tastes sweeter apparently. I dont drink milk any more due to lactose intolerance, but only one time I noticed a real difference in milk taste, and that was when the milk very super-clearly to me tasted of almonds.

> I dont drink milk any more due to lactose intolerance

Do they sell lactose-free milk where you are? it's quite standard in France, you can get full/semi/skim in lactose-free variants

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

Thorrez wrote: post #36
helloworld11 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise for German forces in the second war. When they encountered the sheer richness and quantity of U.S provisions after the D Day landings, for many of them it really brought home how hopeless their situation was in ways that abstract ideas of military and economic balances couldn't. Of course this shouldn't necessarily be used to draw absolute conclusions. Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Ge…

>Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Germans while subsisting on what could basically be called starvation rations, but they managed to crush the Wehrmacht piece by piece. But the Soviets lost more solders than the Germans.

> But the Soviets lost more solders than the Germans.

Yes, they won by playing to their strength - many more expendable soldiers.

"Quantity has a quality all its own." - (attributed to) Joseph Stalin.

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