starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Mar 6, 2009 17:21:53 GMT -5
^ That might be one of my favorite BSC meals, along with the macaroni and cheese and raspberry cobbler that Mrs. Bruen made in "Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever."
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Mar 6, 2009 19:55:42 GMT -5
Karen's little house lunch in Karen's Puppet Show sounded sick. Cold spaghetti and sauce, tuna salad, and potato chips! As a kid, I couldn't (and still can't) stand the thought of cold spaghetti. Some BSC foods sound good, though.
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scrounge
Sitter-In-Training
Boo and bullfrogs!
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Post by scrounge on Mar 7, 2009 3:09:40 GMT -5
Oh gross, tuna and spaghetti together reminds me of a recipe my sister and I tried once out of some kids' cookbook--maybe a Girl Scout cookbook? Anyway, helpful hint: if your spaghetti recipe calls for ketchup and tuna fish to be added to canned spaghetti, run away.
It seemed like a lot of the larger families (Pikes at least once, Thomas-Brewers a lot) would eat "smorgasboard" lunches a lot. I remember trying to get my mom to agree to spread out all of our food on the table and we could all choose, and I got mad when she said we could just get our own food out of the refrigerator. Clearly she understood nothing about lunches! Now, though, I have to wonder. I can see telling the family that weekend lunches are a fend for yourself, make your own deal, but I can't see pulling all the food out and laying it out on the table and then calling everyone to lunch at the same time so everyone's trying to use the same space to both fix their plates and sit and eat in, and then you have to put all the food away again, including probably stuff that nobody touched. I am probably over-thinking this.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 7, 2009 15:06:39 GMT -5
^In Karen's Kittycat Club Karen talked about the smorgasbord lunch they had every Saturday to get rid of the week's leftovers. I assume they tossed out whatever didn't get eaten that day. I wouldn't want to be the one stuck eating Monday night's leftovers five days later. I think Karen's lunch in that book was an apple, some peanut butter and celery, and a handful of potato chips. Way to help out with the leftovers, Karen. Lol.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Mar 9, 2009 16:09:42 GMT -5
^ I never understood what the big thrill was over those smorgasbord lunches that Karen ate at the Big House. She made it sound like it was the greatest thing on Earth, like, "Yay! We get to pull all the food out and eat whatever we want, wahoo!" and then all she would get to eat is an apple, a peanut butter sandwich and celery. It's like, "Karen, at least eat something interesting." ;D Plus there was one book where Karen had the smorgasbord without washing up first and ended up "eating around the dirty fingerprints on the sandwich," gross! (I think it was Karen's Tea Party before she went to charm school) I also thought it was weird that a millionaire like Watson would even think about feeding his family leftovers (OMG lol). And with a family that big, I'm surprised that there were leftovers at all.
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Mar 9, 2009 16:22:53 GMT -5
Maybe being a millionaire was different, because of inflation. But I know a lot of people who have money and they also shop at costco and eat leftovers.
There are also the people who don't, but they are generally snobs and not at all like Watson.
Oh, I was thinking about that ginger tofu salad in #5 today, and I think I'll go look up a recipe.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 10, 2009 5:19:56 GMT -5
^ How do you think most people who have a lot of money, got it? It's not by being wasteful!
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Post by greer on Mar 10, 2009 7:47:51 GMT -5
^ How do you think most people who have a lot of money, got it? It's not by being wasteful! I know a LOT of rich people who are (or now probably more accurately to say WERE thanks to the stock market and Madoff) extremely wasteful. Some people are rich because they inherited/made a lot of money, not because they saved it. Sure, people who are just rich enough to not worry about retirement probably fall into the "saver" category. But people who enjoy ostentatious displays of wealth? Not so much. My dad's job is to help the super rich control their money, and the things that his clients spend their money on are pretty ridiculous.
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Mar 10, 2009 11:08:42 GMT -5
The fingerprint sandwich was so gross!
Seriously though, I have an Aunt who is very rich, and very wasteful. Whatever's left after one meal goes in the trash. If her family doesn't like the meal at all, she throws the whole thing away.
I've always assumed Watson's wealth was "old money," since the mansion was also owned by old Ben Brewer, and other Brewer ancestors.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 10, 2009 11:24:56 GMT -5
On the other hand, there's the current Mr. DuPont. He bought a 1918 Cadillac when he and it were both about 20 years old, and he STILL drives it. Regularly. It's not in pristine condition, either. Good, but not pristine.
Sorry to be so OT!
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 11, 2009 3:21:07 GMT -5
Oh my god, the fingerprint sandwich. That left an impression on me. I always thought of that when eating a sandwich.
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Post by greer on Mar 11, 2009 5:58:01 GMT -5
On the other hand, there's the current Mr. DuPont. He bought a 1918 Cadillac when he and it were both about 20 years old, and he STILL drives it. Regularly. It's not in pristine condition, either. Good, but not pristine. Sorry to be so OT! I live in DuPont country (Pennsylvania/Delaware border), and a lot of them are, well, nuts. Like the DuPont who wore only hefty bags.
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 20, 2009 8:30:37 GMT -5
I've never come across a lot of the brands mentioned in the books, a lot of Claudia's junk food was totally unrecognisable. Today, though, I stumbled across a confectionery that has a shelf of "American chocolate bars". Butterfingers, Hershey bars, Skor bars, and a bunch of others. I might have to educate myself.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 20, 2009 12:30:22 GMT -5
Butterfingers and Hershey bars are awesome. I've never had Skor bars.
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Post by greer on Mar 20, 2009 13:07:19 GMT -5
Skor bars are difficult to find. I used to like Skor ice cream. I forget who made it.
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