Why Today's Kids Are So Weak
Answers and Wisdom Found in a Tweet
This morning, I was browsing my Twitter timeline and found a Tweet from Super 70s Sports, which I assume focusing on all things 70s, but mostly sports.
They posted an image of a Swansons TV Dinner.
If you are too young to understand the hobo reference, then you are probably too young do remember that TV dinners were put in the oven and not the microwave. As another Tweet in the thread wisely stated.
Swanson is the Ruth Chris of every trailer park..
As with most "Throwback" Tweets, there are plenty of people bring up nostalgia based on whatever image or topic the original poster added. Growing up, 95% of all of my meals until age 14 were hand-made. We rarely went out to dinner and we rarely had anything frozen (that we didn't freeze from produce we picked) or pre-made. Most meals were started from scratch, which is why we always had a can of flour, sugar and salt, with a refill bag in the pantry.
I do remember getting TV dinners on occasion. The thing about TV dinners was, they weren't really quick, when cooked in the oven. It was more of a convenience of having everything put together in its own tray that you could put on a TV tray and sit and watch your favorite show on your TV that maybe could pick up 5 channels, if you were extremely lucky. I don't have a lot of those particular memories, but I do remember things, like the vegetables getting into the desert section or the desert being baked onto the aluminium foil. If done right, those stuck on pieces of cake or brownie were actually a nice addition.
In general, TV dinners were eatable and that's about all of a review you could give them. Like the post says, you were basically eating like a hobo. For those too young, hobos were people who would hang out down by the railroad tunnels and hop a train now and then to go to different places. Lots of kids used to dream about being hobos and seeing the country. I doubt most hobos would see much more than the train station. When a hobo would eat, he would scrounge up things to cook and wrap it in aluminum foil and drop that package in the fire for an hour until every things was cooked. And everything was cooked together, so hopefully he picked things that would taste good together.
I'm an Eagle Scout, we would make hobo dinners all the time on camping trips.
Anyway, this hard life memories it the Tweet also brought up another tidbit of wisdom.
This could be the reason that so many kids today whine just about anything. Life is too good, too easy. Even if they ate TV dinners today, the options they get are 100x that in the 70s. And, for the most part, the food created is tastier and better packaged. Going out to fast food or a restaurant is a nothing burger for most kids. Getting a made from scratch home cooked meal probably only happens once a year.
Maybe if kids learned how to do things the not convenient and not simple way, they would appreciate things more and whine less.
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Probably also because theyre all walking around confused about what gender they are with all this social conditioning!
What gender.
What my be offensive.
Who might be offensive to hang around.
Haha well at least it didn't say new and improved. They decided right and said improved because everyone know's something can't be both new and improved.
Loled at the overcoming obstacles tweet.
I wonder how big that tray was in real life. Those three hot dogs confuses me.
I figured they were the size of a cocktail weenie or something like the ones you can put on a toothpick. Didn't consider those being the full size of a hotdog. Maybe it's a family meal?
They seem to be half-sized. So, larger than a cocktail weenie, but smaller than a regular one.
That's a single person meal. Swanson's was the high-end.
the way I remember it hobos were pretty much a result of the depression.
and gone before aluminium foil was invented.
Welp...y'ah better get your dingle checked, cause aluminium foil replaced tin for food in 1910.
That's before the Great Depression, kids.
oh
that would mean 'tin cans' ..........aren't?
I'm sure the metal cans that are left are probably a composite metal to cut down on rust.
But, the aluminium foil company opened for business in 1910 to start using foil for food storage. Plenty of time to have hobos in the 1930s use it to cook meals next to the rail road tracks.