Re: The Holiday Inn family Chick'n Dinner in 1962.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:28:11 +0000, D wrote:

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, gm wrote:
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BryanGSimmons wrote:
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On 3/20/2025 8:47 PM, MummyChunk wrote:

The Holiday Inn family Chick'n Dinner in 1962.
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It featured a soup of the day, a relish tray, and all-you-can eat fried
chicken with chicken livers and homemade noodles, whipped potatoes,
cream gravy, whole kernel corn, pickled beets and onion, coleslaw, and a
beverage.
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It was $1.95 per person; children $1.

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Does anyone here even make homemade noodles?  Back in my fat days, I was
a terror at AYCE fried chicken buffets.  13 pieces at a KFC one time,
and there was very little left on the bones.

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BTW, adjusted for inflation, that $1.95 1962 Holiday Inn chicken dinner
would be about $22.00 in 2025 dollars...
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Chicken is far cheaper today than 60 or so years ago, a fried chicken
dinner was considered just about on the same level then as a steak
dinner... now chicken is fast food fodder...
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Believe it or not, in  the early - mid 60's, Holiday Inn restos were
considered somewhat "upscale", we'd go to the new HI in Galesburg IL for
a special after - church Sunday dinner... the new Interstate highway (I
- 74) was also being built, after that snazzy chicken dinner, we'd drive
a few miles on the snazzy new Interstate... so modern...!!!
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My mom made homemade noodles all the time, all women of that era did...
I've not made noodles for over 40 years...

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I wonder if the chicken then was way tastier than chicken now. Chicken
today is bland and boring. I avoid it if I can.

Yes, I'd say it's blander - "industrial" farming and all that...
When I was a kid on the farm, we had a hen house, and that supplied our
chicken and eggs... most all farm folks had raised chickens...
Mom would grab a chicken and go CHOP CHOP, off with it's head...!!!
We moved off of the farm in 1960, and bought chicken from the store or
sometimes others who still raised chickens...
By about 1963 or so, almost nobody in our rural araa even on farms
raised chickens, it was cheaper and more convenient to buy from a
store...
Raising chickens is a messy and expensive and dirty PAIN in the
arse...!!!
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GM
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