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Rich in 1900 is my choice. I'll bet the food then rocked - I'll just take one year's income at face value and the house I'm living in now, without 111 years of
by Vivtek 16y ago
Rich in 1900 is my choice. I'll bet the food then rocked - I'll just take one year's income at face value and the house I'm living in now, without 111 years of intervening decay. The rich industrialist who lived here in 1900 will have to find new digs.
But no contest. I'd turn back that clock right now.
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoWhat kind of food do you think you'd get in 1900 that you couldn't get today?
- CamperBob 16y agoIt would be like going to Mexico and drinking the local water. You'd have no immunity to whatever bugs were commonly in food at that (pre-refrigeration) time.
- WildUtah 16y agoNobody drinks the local water in Mexico, including Mexicans. It's the food that carries novel fauna. And it isn't the food that would get you. It's the smallpox.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoThis brings to mind a scene from Mad Men (taking place only in the 60's). Draper has gone AWOL to California, where he is screwing some rich teenager. She asks him: "Have you ever had Mexican food?" He hadn't. Similarly, in the novel of Casino Royale, avocados are used to signify how exotic the casino is. This only takes you back to the 60's.
- Vivtek 16y agoGrown right here. I grew up here - Good Food. Well, in the summer, anyway. And in the winter I shall take the train to Cuba and have oranges till I burst.
- T_S_ 16y agoEnjoy all the smoke. And don't forget to not get cancer.
- petervandijck 16y agoNo sushi. No TV. Few interesting books. I could go on.
- artmageddon 16y agoNo means of rapid transportation over extremely long distances.
- hyperbovine 16y ago> Few interesting books. Except for Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, Austen, Twain, Dostoyevksy, Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters, Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Dumas, Thoreau, Marx, Henry James, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad, Ibsen, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde ... (I could go on.) Yep, it was a real literary dark ages back then.
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- petervandijck 16y agoQuite honestly I find most of those pretty boring. Jules Verne is fine but not if you know Herbert Frank exists (or will exist).
- Vivtek 16y agoDude. I already know how to make sushi, and I don't have a TV now. There are plenty of interesting books in a library that's way classier than the one we have now - and the Wright Brothers live down the street (well; they might have gone to Dayton by 1900) and plenty of other tinkers and inventors. There were more patents in this county in 1900 than any other county in the United States. 1900 in Richmond, Indiana was where it was at.
- colomon 16y agoUmm... how are you getting sushi quality fish in Richmond, Indiana in 1900? What's your source of nori and wasabi?
- forinti 16y agoYou'd change your mind very fast as soon as you needed a dentist...
- cabalamat 16y agoOr a doctor.
- georgieporgie 16y ago> I'll bet the food then rocked Really? Sure, sun-ripened fruits eaten at their peak would be delicious. But you'd be stuck eating whatever could be had within a few miles of your home. You could migrate with the seasons to widen your annual food selection, but that would be extremely costly. The quality of many individual food items in the early 1900s would probably be better than 1960. Take instant coffee, Coors, and Wonderbread for example. But Starbucks and micro brews have paved the way back to high standards for these items nowadays.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoIf you're into the "local food" movement you might like the food in 1900. There was very little refrigeration and limited transportation. That meant plenty of fresh fruits and veggies in the summer and fall, but nothing but pickled and smoked food in the winter (along with root vegetables from the cold cellar). Preserving food was a serious business because your family could starve if you screwed up.