What did you used to eat?

Older White Castles were built of porcelain and could be disassembled in under an hour. They were all pre-fabricated and could be broken into six or eight pieces, hauled to a new site and assembled. White Castle's management realized that the car was revolutionizing America, and what was a main street today might be a backwater in a decade.

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In the early 70s, a fondue craze swept America. People had fondue parties, and many fondue places opened, then transformed into wine and cheese parlors. For a few years, they were a real threat to the bar scene, but they mostly faded away by the mid-80s
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Wasn't that a clever marketing ploy by the Swiss cheese cartel?

If you LIKE fondue, you can probably find very nice barely used fondue sets at thrift stores for next to nothing.

Or any estate sale. Many are often in their original boxes. Welsh Rabbit was a favorite of mine, although I had it about ten years ago and it was just okay.
Another dish we had regularly was chicken or turkey croquette. Howard Johnsons and Swanson's used to be available everywhere.

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Or any estate sale. Many are often in their original boxes. Welsh Rabbit was a favorite of mine, although I had it about ten years ago and it was just okay.
Another dish we had regularly was chicken or turkey croquette. Howard Johnsons and Swanson's used to be available everywhere.
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In the "melty cheese on things" family, raclette. In foodservice style, the cut edge of a cheese wheel is broiled until melty, then scraped onto a plate of whatever it gets scraped onto. In home style, slices of the cheese are usually melted under a broiler in individual pans, then slid off onto the substrate foodstuffs.

I had four one-ounce slices of fresh mozzarella, each topped with a sundried tomato.

I got my latest lab results back, and after four years of my AC1 declining, it went up substantially this time. I'd reduced it from 6.4 to 5.8, but it is now over 6. It's time to fine-tune the diet a bit.

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In the early 70s, a fondue craze swept America. People had fondue parties, and many fondue places opened, then transformed into wine and cheese parlors. For a few years, they were a real threat to the bar scene, but they mostly faded away by the mid-80s
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Wasn't that a clever marketing ploy by the Swiss cheese cartel?

If you LIKE fondue, you can probably find very nice barely used fondue sets at thrift stores for next to nothing.
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I remember fondue, it was disgusting. You have a big pot of melted cheese and everybody dips their food into it and some of those people were double dippers. If they had a larger piece they would take a bite off of it and then dip it again and that cheese wasn't hot enough to kill germs. It was just barely warm. Just the fact that you're eating that much cheese at one time is crazy. Cheese is 100 calories of pure fat for every ounce and one ounce of cheese is nothing. The only cheese on my diet anymore is grated Parmesan and that's because a few sprinkles of it amounts to almost no calories. I love cheese, who doesn't love cheese, but I also like not being a big fat slob. And when you're older, every pound makes a difference. Try losing 10 lb and the next time you're in the store grab two 5 lb bags of sugar and walk around carrying them one in each hand for a while. That's how much 10 lb is on your body that you no longer have to carry as fat.

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In the early 70s, a fondue craze swept America. People had fondue parties, and many fondue places opened, then transformed into wine and cheese parlors. For a few years, they were a real threat to the bar scene, but they mostly faded away by the mid-80s
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Wasn't that a clever marketing ploy by the Swiss cheese cartel?

If you LIKE fondue, you can probably find very nice barely used fondue sets at thrift stores for next to nothing.
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Someone bought me a Fondue pot as a house warming gift around 2015. My guess is they just wanted an invite to a party. I think the wife and I used it once.

You don't mess with the Big Red Cheese!

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Someone bought me a Fondue pot as a house warming gift around 2015. My guess is they just wanted an invite to a party. I think the wife and I used it once.
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The title to this picture was a 'groovy 1970s fondue party'. WAY too many people dipping into the same pot. As I recall it was kept warm with a candle underneath which is not exactly hot enough to keep the bacteria dead. I knew a guy in the '80s who worked for the health department and he would check restaurants for cleanliness and he would issue those infamous stars that rated the restaurant. He would never eat anything at a restaurant that hadn't been heated to at least 200°. In other words he avoided the salad bar like it contained the bubonic plague which it probably did.

I'm guessing EB never got invited to a 1970s Fondue party.
While you can always feed yourself, the fun was in feeding someone else, which would inevitably lead to spilled cheese and clothing coming off. Crossing fondue sticks was a precursor to foreplay.

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I'm guessing EB never got invited to a 1970s Fondue party.
While you can always feed yourself, the fun was in feeding someone else, which would inevitably lead to spilled cheese and clothing coming off. Crossing fondue sticks was a precursor to foreplay.
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I thought fondue was stupid even in the '70s I wouldn't be caught dead at such a function. I've never been much for social gatherings. Where everybody is smiling and on their best behavior. I'm never on my best behavior, I don't have a best behavior.

Ever get an invite to a key party?

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Ever get an invite to a key party?
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I live in the Midwest where people are normal and not sex craved morons. If you want to destroy the relationship you're in really really fast, engage in such irresponsible behavior. If you went to a key party it means that the relationship you were in was on life support. All that crap was in the '70s I haven't heard about anything like that in almost 50 years.

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Ever get an invite to a key party?
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I live in the Midwest where people are normal and not sex craved morons. If you want to destroy the relationship you're in really really fast, engage in such irresponsible behavior. If you went to a key party it means that the relationship you were in was on life support. All that crap was in the '70s I haven't heard about anything like that in almost 50 years.
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I have never heard of it and never participated in anything like that.

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Ever get an invite to a key party?
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I live in the Midwest where people are normal and not sex craved morons. If you want to destroy the relationship you're in really really fast, engage in such irresponsible behavior. If you went to a key party it means that the relationship you were in was on life support. All that crap was in the '70s I haven't heard about anything like that in almost 50 years.
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I have never heard of it and never participated in anything like that.
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It was a thing in the '70s maybe into the '80s. It's basically wife swapping with a new twist, it's couple swapping. It's what people do when their marriage is on the rocks and they want something to spice it up. All it accomplishes is the marriage sinks faster.

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Ever get an invite to a key party?
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I live in the Midwest where people are normal and not sex craved morons. If you want to destroy the relationship you're in really really fast, engage in such irresponsible behavior. If you went to a key party it means that the relationship you were in was on life support. All that crap was in the '70s I haven't heard about anything like that in almost 50 years.
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I have never heard of it and never participated in anything like that.
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They were in their last grasps, but in the early 1980s, AIDs was a death knell. They weren't just for long-term couples. They were big in the airline industry.