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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2009-05-06 01:38 pm
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One more post...

...before I focus on my real job. :D

Your Home and You is a home ec textbook from 1960, aimed at high school students. In the food section, there is a black and white photograph whose caption reads:
11-5. Here is a nourishing meal for a person on a reducing diet. It is essential that the dinner includes foods rich in protein.
It shows a smiling woman sitting down to a meal that consists of: a plate to the side with some sort of fruit and what may be nuts on it, garnished with some sort of (I assume) greenery, a dinner plate with a chunk o'charred meat, a piece of broccoli with a HUGE knob of butter on it*, and mottled green beans, accompanied by a full glass of milk and a bowl of ice cream.

I note also that the picture is credited to the National Dairy Council.



* I'm estimating 1.5-2 tablespoons from the size of it.
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[personal profile] trouble 2009-05-07 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you mind if I link to your discussions about home ec books on [Unknown site tag]?
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[identity profile] longshot14.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmm, lard.

[identity profile] jonquil.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Remember all the "diet plates" restaurants used to have? A hamburger without a bun, a scoop of cottage cheese, and a tomato?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Because CARBS were EVIL!

There's a deli near where I work (http://www.carshonsdeli.com/) that still has a diet plate that features cottage cheese, but as the restaurant's appeal is mid-century lunchy-type food, it seems completely appropriate.

The menu online doesn't seem to have the plate I'm thinking of, but it was on the menu the last time I went. :D

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Those diet plates go back a long way---I remember them at Woolworth's lunch counter. Behind the counter, above the stainless-steel machines for mixing milkshakes, the toasters, and the griddle, there were plastic card pictures of meals, and one of them was the diet plate.
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[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be an interesting thing to research. (I wonder if the Lovegren has it, actually? It's been so long since I read it, I've forgotten.)