Comments on: National Archive food and government exhibit: "What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?" http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 02:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: knoxblox http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1179170 knoxblox Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1179170 You know, I kind of felt that I was getting biofeedback that I needed to step up on the vegetables. It tasted nasty, so that's why I used the Ovaltine and peanut butter to mask the flavor. Of course, I'm pretty sure I was burning more than your average 2,000 calories a day. That blenderful kind of felt like I'd eaten nothing after a couple of hours had passed. You know, I kind of felt that I was getting biofeedback that I needed to step up on the vegetables. It tasted nasty, so that’s why I used the Ovaltine and peanut butter to mask the flavor.

Of course, I’m pretty sure I was burning more than your average 2,000 calories a day. That blenderful kind of felt like I’d eaten nothing after a couple of hours had passed.

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1177945 Donald Petersen Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1177945 I'd totally drink that down with a couple of amendments: cow milk instead of soy milk, and leave out the tomatoes & spinach, please.  And up the peanut butter amount while we're at it. That blenderful would keep me working all day long.  I'll eat the spinach by itself, afterward.  If I must. I’d totally drink that down with a couple of amendments: cow milk instead of soy milk, and leave out the tomatoes & spinach, please.  And up the peanut butter amount while we’re at it.

That blenderful would keep me working all day long.  I’ll eat the spinach by itself, afterward.  If I must.

]]> By: antoniawest http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1177255 antoniawest Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1177255 I love these posters from the 40s and 50s. They look kind of artistic even though it is pure marketing. They remind me of my childhood, even though I am younger than that. <a href="http://www.howtogetthinnerfast.com/" rel="nofollow">Skinny Fast</a> I love these posters from the 40s and 50s. They look kind of artistic even though it is pure marketing. They remind me of my childhood, even though I am younger than that. Skinny Fast

]]> By: Gulliver http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176972 Gulliver Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176972 Braaainz!!! Braaainz!!!

]]> By: knoxblox http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176612 knoxblox Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176612 My taste buds would have liked it more if it were yogurt...however I guess I've eaten worse things. Now that I think about it, my breakfast when I was working as a pedicab operator was pretty gross by most people's standards. I needed to find a way to put more calories in than I was burning off. Pedicab Smoothie: In a blender, combine-- 2 cups soy milk 2 eggs 2 bananas 1 cup of yogurt 1 generous handful of broad leaf spinach 1 medium handful of cherry or grape tomatoes 1 heaping teaspoon of creamy peanut butter 2 scoops of Ovaltine chocolate flavor 1 generous handful of berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, or what have you) Blend until the consistency reaches a level capable of drinking. Careful, it is an entire blender full. Then, at work, I would have a buttered bagel (any flavor) and some caffiene. My taste buds would have liked it more if it were yogurt…however I guess I’ve eaten worse things.

Now that I think about it, my breakfast when I was working as a pedicab operator was pretty gross by most people’s standards. I needed to find a way to put more calories in than I was burning off.

Pedicab Smoothie: In a blender, combine–

2 cups soy milk
2 eggs
2 bananas
1 cup of yogurt
1 generous handful of broad leaf spinach
1 medium handful of cherry or grape tomatoes
1 heaping teaspoon of creamy peanut butter
2 scoops of Ovaltine chocolate flavor
1 generous handful of berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, or what have you)

Blend until the consistency reaches a level capable of drinking. Careful, it is an entire blender full.

Then, at work, I would have a buttered bagel (any flavor) and some caffiene.

]]> By: millie fink http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176602 millie fink Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176602 i think Midwesterners worrying about those flying carp just need to wait a little longer for the snake fish to come along.  i think Midwesterners worrying about those flying carp just need to wait a little longer for the snake fish to come along. 

]]> By: speleothem http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176594 speleothem Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176594 I love the "Eat the Carp!" poster from 1911 in the online exhibit preview.  Interestingly enough, the government is still thinking along those lines in dealing with the current invasion of Asian carp in the Mississippi watershed.  Something tells me that Americans, like in 1911, still aren't too keen on eating carp.  Attempts are being made to export the fish frozen to China, but the Chinese like their carp extremely fresh. "Carp jelly, an ancient Swedish dish, is delicious". I love the “Eat the Carp!” poster from 1911 in the online exhibit preview.  Interestingly enough, the government is still thinking along those lines in dealing with the current invasion of Asian carp in the Mississippi watershed.  Something tells me that Americans, like in 1911, still aren’t too keen on eating carp.  Attempts are being made to export the fish frozen to China, but the Chinese like their carp extremely fresh.

“Carp jelly, an ancient Swedish dish, is delicious”.

]]> By: Tryggvi Thayer http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176535 Tryggvi Thayer Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176535 Mmm... Canned fruit and cottage cheese. Takes me back to days of yore. That's going on the shopping list. Mmm… Canned fruit and cottage cheese. Takes me back to days of yore. That’s going on the shopping list.

]]> By: Garnett Schuyler http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176515 Garnett Schuyler Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176515 Vitamin Donuts are pretty great, if memories of elementary school are any guide. Vitamin Donuts are pretty great, if memories of elementary school are any guide.

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176358 Stefan Jones Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176358 One of the government posters at the site urges communities to start a school lunch program, and <I>offers to help</I>. The agency offering to help is the War Food Administration. We're talking <I>1942.</I> They gave a enough of a fuck about children's' health to start a program like that while the whole country was mobilizing for a two-front world war. Try that today and the Fox News talking point of the day would claim that school lunches were designed to force Muslim style food and mind-control drugs on our youth. And the fucking tea baggers would put a school lunch elimination rider on the debt ceiling bill. One of the government posters at the site urges communities to start a school lunch program, and offers to help.

The agency offering to help is the War Food Administration. We’re talking 1942. They gave a enough of a fuck about children’s’ health to start a program like that while the whole country was mobilizing for a two-front world war.

Try that today and the Fox News talking point of the day would claim that school lunches were designed to force Muslim style food and mind-control drugs on our youth. And the fucking tea baggers would put a school lunch elimination rider on the debt ceiling bill.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176316 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176316 It seems to have bypassed the approval process for images, so...very devious of you. It seems to have bypassed the approval process for images, so…very devious of you.

]]> By: Blaze Curry http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176295 Blaze Curry Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176295 Now I feel like a burger...And I think I just ate the last bread slices in that sandwich... I suppose that IS better than my usual coffee in the morning though. Now I feel like a burger…And I think I just ate the last bread slices in that sandwich…
I suppose that IS better than my usual coffee in the morning though.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176291 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176291 The diet plate pretty much everywhere in the 60s was a naked burger, a scoop of cottage cheese and a canned peach half. Artfully garnished with a leaf of iceberg lettuce. The diet plate pretty much everywhere in the 60s was a naked burger, a scoop of cottage cheese and a canned peach half. Artfully garnished with a leaf of iceberg lettuce.

]]> By: mtdna http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176259 mtdna Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176259 Funny how the same strategies work today. Vitamin Water, anyone? Funny how the same strategies work today. Vitamin Water, anyone?

]]> By: howaboutthisdangit http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176251 howaboutthisdangit Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176251 For PEP and VIGOR - and frightfully red cheeks - VITAMIN DONUTS For PEP and VIGOR – and frightfully red cheeks – VITAMIN DONUTS

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176182 Stefan Jones Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176182 Oh, hey, an opportunity to link to a picture of my breakfast from a few Sundays ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/5932118909/in/photostream "Pep" and "Vigor," huh? Nice meaningless words, like today's "nutritional support," used to describe any number of nutriceutical snake-oil products. (Hey . . . Disqus decided to treat the linked-to picture as an "attachment." I didn't know it could or would do that.) (Not that I'm ashamed of my breakfast, mind you.) Oh, hey, an opportunity to link to a picture of my breakfast from a few Sundays ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/5932118909/in/photostream

“Pep” and “Vigor,” huh? Nice meaningless words, like today’s “nutritional support,” used to describe any number of nutriceutical snake-oil products.

(Hey . . . Disqus decided to treat the linked-to picture as an “attachment.” I didn’t know it could or would do that.)

(Not that I’m ashamed of my breakfast, mind you.)

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176172 Donald Petersen Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176172 Wow, even the pineapple's sickly color <b>looks</b> like 1974. I could do with a few of them Vitamin Donuts right about now. Wow, even the pineapple’s sickly color looks like 1974.

I could do with a few of them Vitamin Donuts right about now.

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176158 David Pescovitz Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176158 My dad ate canteloupe and cottage cheese at lunch everyday for at least 20 years with only very rare exceptions.... My dad ate canteloupe and cottage cheese at lunch everyday for at least 20 years with only very rare exceptions….

]]> By: knoxblox http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176148 knoxblox Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/29/national-archive-food-and-government-exhibit-whats-cooking-uncle-sam.html#comment-1176148 Ugh. I'd be a cranky bastard too if I had to eat pineapple and cottage cheese for a meal. Ugh. I’d be a cranky bastard too if I had to eat pineapple and cottage cheese for a meal.

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