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

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, gm wrote:

BryanGSimmons wrote:
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On 3/20/2025 8:47 PM, MummyChunk wrote:

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

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

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GM
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