Food mentioned in BSC books

[macca]

sparklymouse said:

Seriously, how had would it have been to bring an apple or a plastic baggie full of carrot sticks over to Claudia's? I'm pretty sure they sell fresh produce all over the country, not just in California.

The way Dawn carries on, you wouldn't think so

Of course then Dawn would have to listen to Kristy act like a four year old with her "ew, an apple" rant. IMO Kristy was worse than Claudia, who was just pretty much like Cookie Monster with her "Me love junk food!" declarations.

LMAO

ITA that Kristy was worse. She seemed just as obsessed with junk as Claudia - and MORE opposed to anything healthy.

[sotypical42483]

Or they could just do without their snack at friggin 5:00. I mean dinner's in what, an hour? Don't most kids eat snacks like, right after school? Even if they had a sitting job, I'd assume the kids would want a snack after school, they could eat with them. I don't know anyone who ate their after school snack at 5:00.

[hitzpink]

^I always thought that was weird too! The point of an after-school snack is that it's right after school. Not at 5:30, an hour before dinner.

About the casseroles: I guess they used to be pretty popular, didn't they? They weren't necessarily Hamburger Helper, but you'd take a bunch of ground beef and layer it in a dish with potaotes and cheese and veggies or something. I think that's what they ate for supper a lot. Ew!! But those kinds of dishes were the norm for the 80s.

[sparklymouse]

It's so weird to me that they all ate dinner with their entire family each night. It's nice and all, but rather unheard of in this day and age. We've brought up the parent occupations in other threads, but everyone seemed to work 9-5. No second shift ever? I'd think all the business men dads in the club would have some late nights at the office. There's no way a family like Kristy's would be able to eat together all the time.

[inge]

Here's another food mention (I hope it hasn't been posted before) that makes me hungry: in mystery #4, Kristy and Bart go to Kristy's house and Nanny just made chocolate cookies, fresh out of the oven - 'more chocolate, less nuts than last time'. Yum.

[starrynight]

Anything with more chocolate is good in my book.

[sotypical42483]

I never thought it was weird they always ate with their families. My family always ate together growing up (I hated it) and both my parents worked.

[fairy3lf2]

sotypical42483 said:

I never thought it was weird they always ate with their families. My family always ate together growing up (I hated it) and both my parents worked.

Me too. I don't think it's as rare as a lot of people make it out to be.

[macca]

sotypical42483 said:

I never thought it was weird they always ate with their families. My family always ate together growing up (I hated it) and both my parents worked.

So did mine and we always ate dinner together as well... my mum had a real "thing" about it ... BUT neither of my parents were in high-powered corporate positions like Watson or Elizabeth.

[hitzpink]

My family was like Macca's, we always ate together but neither of my parents were in super high positions. I thought it was nice their families were always eating together, if not a little unrealistic in some cases. I always thought Mrs. Kishi might have had to work late sometimes, being the head librarian. Libraries don't close at 5:00, and it seems like SOMETIMES she would've had to be there past 5. And, of course, all the lawyers and executives that Stoneybrook has should have been pulling a few late shifts every once in awhile. But I guess Stoneybrook is just perfectly wholesome, and the parents make it a point to eat with the kids.

[wanderingfrog]

My family always ate dinner together, too. My mother was a stay-at-home mom, but my dad was (and is) a lawyer like all of the fathers in Stoneybrook, and we all ate together.

Re: Mrs. Kishi, she probably would have had to work late sometimes, but possibly not as often as the other librarians would, due to the simple fact that nobody else is dictating her schedule and she has more freedom to choose hours she actually wants. She might choose to work an evening shift if there's an event like a famous author doing a reading and she feels she should personally oversee it, but if she thinks it would suck to work the ref desk until nine Thursday night, she can probably consistently avoid that particular shift pretty much forever, whereas just about anyone else in the library might get stuck with it once in a while. That's just official, scheduled, shifts, though -- she might be enough of a workaholic to sometimes stay a bit late doing an unpaid hour or so if she's really focused on a particular project.

[sparklymouse]

I found a weird one. Mrs. Barrett fed her kids cream cheese and nut sandwiches. At first I pictured blobs of cream cheese on Wonder Bread and was grossed out. Then I thought cream cheese and some chopped walnuts on a toasted bagel could potentially be yummy.

[sotypical42483]

Mrs. Barrett doesn't exactly seem like the type who would be worrying about what she put into her kids bodies. I think your idea of globs of cream cheese on wonder bread is probably fairly accurate. Yuck.

[jen]

The Kilbournes don't eat together a whole lot (at least, not in Kristy and the Sister War)... so there are some dysfunctional families out there in Stoneybrook

I mentioned this in another thread, but I love the pound cake and grapes that Logan eats in Claudia and the World's Cutest Baby. Yum. What's pound cake? A cake that weighs a pound?

[lilafowler]

Pound cake got its name from the original recipe for it, which was a pound each of eggs, sugar, flour, and butter. The ratio of ingredients has changed now, but it's basically a butter cake.