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<blockquote data-quote="BriarPipeNYC" data-source="post: 551457" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>Chow Mein dinner "kits".....from back in the '50s.</p><p></p><p>Yep.....canned Chow Mein, the noodles, the rice, etc. could all be bought, pre-packaged in a boxed set. All you had to do was heat up this swill, and good housewives could serve it their smiling-with-anticipation, families a nice meal in 15 minutes. That's what the label said. Great for the little woman who didn't have time to cook. My mom used to buy it in Macy's. I'm Italian...trust me, my mom could cook! She bought this stuff because my sister and I loved the novelty of eating the exotic authentic, Chinese food, from a can! We always ate those crispy fried noodles first. I won't tell you what my mother thought about this food -and what it looked like on a plate.</p><p></p><p>Heady stuff.... from back in the 1950's -when served off of Melmac dinnerware. It didn't take much to please us blue-collar working folks, back in the day when cars were not built to be "rolling, living rooms".</p><p></p><p>Don't judge me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BriarPipeNYC, post: 551457, member: 4199"] Chow Mein dinner "kits".....from back in the '50s. Yep.....canned Chow Mein, the noodles, the rice, etc. could all be bought, pre-packaged in a boxed set. All you had to do was heat up this swill, and good housewives could serve it their smiling-with-anticipation, families a nice meal in 15 minutes. That's what the label said. Great for the little woman who didn't have time to cook. My mom used to buy it in Macy's. I'm Italian...trust me, my mom could cook! She bought this stuff because my sister and I loved the novelty of eating the exotic authentic, Chinese food, from a can! We always ate those crispy fried noodles first. I won't tell you what my mother thought about this food -and what it looked like on a plate. Heady stuff.... from back in the 1950's -when served off of Melmac dinnerware. It didn't take much to please us blue-collar working folks, back in the day when cars were not built to be "rolling, living rooms". Don't judge me. [/QUOTE]
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