Maybe the present isn't always what we wish it was, but let's remember: to people in the old days, you and I are living in the glorious future! This means, of course, that I am writing this from my house on the moon and my computer is a big silver box with lots of blinky, multi-colored lights on it. Later I will fly my car to the store to buy food pills...
Okay, maybe not...but it's still amusing to observe from our vantage point in the future, what our forebears thought we'd be doing. For example...in a 1939 booklet entitled "World of Tomorrow Miracles with Minute Tapoica," General foods corp. imagined our lives to be touched by the magic of Tapioca:
Hear me, citizens of the past! I come from the future with a message: Nobody in the future is touching a boiled ham and cabbage casserole with a ten foot pole...even if it is "Top Hat."
You didn't actually make all of those recipes and test them? Are you not giving generously of yourself?!
Posted by: goblinbox | July 09, 2007 at 03:34 PM
I haven't had those cone shaped croquettes since I was a kid, I use to love them.
Posted by: Julie | March 21, 2008 at 04:33 PM
"Shapely...yet moist."
EWWWW.
Posted by: Celia Pleete | June 19, 2008 at 01:20 PM