Meat Grinder (nothing sexual)

[Svenskaflicka]

I saw a picture of a meat grinder a few minutes ago, and it brought back memories from my childhood, memories of grinding meat into minced meat, and of stuffing sausages for christmas.

This also made me feel very old, as I realized that there are probably not many people my age who has ever seen, never less actually USED a meat grinder.

Am I the last of the Old Ones?

How many of you have ever used a meat grinder, and just how old are you?

 

[honeylick]

30

i use one every holiday where i cook a bird.

 

[lobito]

Without saying how old I am, I used one many years ago, at my Great-Grandparents' home.

They still have them now, except that they are electric.

Yea, I'm old too.

 

[Guest]

No. But my butcher has one.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think there's a very sharp line drawn between 1976 and 1977. Anyone born -76 or earlier belong to the Old School. We know how to use meat grinders, we wrote letters on paper to our pen pals when we were kids, and we had oatmeal porridge for breakfast.

People born -77 or later, know how to use a DVD-player, write e-mails, and have Latte and biscotti for breakfast.

I fear the ancient knowledges will die out with us, my friends.

 

[Angel]

I think there's a very sharp line drawn between 1976 and 1977. Anyone born -76 or earlier belong to the Old School. We know how to use meat grinders, we wrote letters on paper to our pen pals when we were kids, and we had oatmeal porridge for breakfast.

People born -77 or later, know how to use a DVD-player, write e-mails, and have Latte and biscotti for breakfast.

I fear the ancient knowledges will die out with us, my friends.

Um no, us poor sould unfortunate enough to have been born in 1978 wrote to penpals on real paper too.

We even remember 8-tracks and Beta.

 

[lobito]

I think there's a very sharp line drawn between 1976 and 1977. Anyone born -76 or earlier belong to the Old School. We know how to use meat grinders, we wrote letters on paper to our pen pals when we were kids, and we had oatmeal porridge for breakfast.

People born -77 or later, know how to use a DVD-player, write e-mails, and have Latte and biscotti for breakfast.

I fear the ancient knowledges will die out with us, my friends.

You're not lyin' there, sister! I had a thread just last week about handwriting letters ON PAPER! (EXCEPT FOR ANGEL!)

I still have the one & only penpal letter I ever recieved, back in Kindergarten.

Lo

 

[Svenskaflicka]

No matter how fast and efficient and environmental-friendly e-mails are, there's nothing like getting an enevelope in your mail with a familiar handwriting, a thick, soft envelope, preferably blue with red lines around the edges (air mail = foreign friend has written), and you tear it up and take out several pages of a letter, and you sit down and just read...

And then you read it again...

And when you write back, you keep the letter next to you for reference, so you will remember to congratulate your friend on growing the biggest pumpkin in the county, or ask how the big date went, or...

 

[Pyper]

I had several penpals when I was a kid. They never lasted because it was too much to keep up the effort (on both sides). Paying postage, writing all that stuff down, waiting weeks for it to get there, waiting weeks for a letter to come back...

E-mail is way better for keeping in touch.

 

[lobito]

I had several penpals when I was a kid. They never lasted because it was too much to keep up the effort (on both sides). Paying postage, writing all that stuff down, waiting weeks for it to get there, waiting weeks for a letter to come back...

E-mail is way better for keeping in touch.

oh sure, use logic...

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm trying to be gloomy and nostalgic here...

 

[peachykeen]

oooh I had penpals as a kid, remember that kids show on PBS called Big Blue Marble? You could write in and they would hook you up with a kid your age in another country; I had one from Kenya and one from Greece. I so loved getting those blue fold-out air mail envelopes with foreign stamps on them. I have all the letters stored in a box at my mom's. Cool, I had forgotten all about that until I opened this thread. Thanks for the pleasant memory, Svenska.

Oh, and, I've never used a meat grinder, but we had Thanksgiving at my auntie's almost every year, and she had one.

 

[cowgirl heaven]

Have a hand crank one from my Great Grandma that we still use, but the old 70's electric grinder is easier.

We use it a lot to grind our own hamburger and sausage from our wild game meat. High in protein, and low in fat. Absolutely the best
*in my 30's and appreciate all the old ways*

 

[Pyper]

I'm trying to be gloomy and nostalgic here...

Sorry.

I had two penpals from Japan and one from Ohio. Speaking of nostalgia, I myself have never used a meat grinder but I have witnessed the use of one. However, it wasn't very nostalgic because it was just last year in Spain.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

How many own a hope chest?

I got mine on my 7th birthday, and I collected a lot of things in it - candlestick holders, bed linen, table cloths...

 

[Star of Penumbra]

I was born in 1982.

I saw an 8-Track tape once. I have not seen one since.

I played an Atari 2600 once, about 10 years ago. I remember thinking it really sucked. Most likely because the game I was playing was E.T..

I think of vinyl as something you make chairs and car seats out of, not something one could play music on.

I don't remember disco. I probably wouldn't even be able to identify it.

I didn't know what 33 or 45 RPM records were until I was 16.

VCRs were around when I was a kid.

I have never seen an actual, honest-to-god, black and white TV except in movies.

So, feel old yet?

 

[Pyper]

How many own a hope chest?

I got mine on my 7th birthday, and I collected a lot of things in it - candlestick holders, bed linen, table cloths...

My entire closet is a hope chest. I'm a pack rat.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I was born in 1982.

I saw an 8-Track tape once. I have not seen one since.

I played an Atari 2600 once, about 10 years ago. I remember thinking it really sucked. Most likely because the game I was playing was E.T..

I think of vinyl as something you make chairs and car seats out of, not something one could play music on.

I don't remember disco. I probably wouldn't even be able to identify it.

I didn't know what 33 or 45 RPM records were until I was 16.

VCRs were around when I was a kid.

I have never seen an actual, honest-to-god, black and white TV except in movies.

So, feel old yet?

Aren't you up past your bedtime, little missy?

 

[Angel]

Star of Penumbra


I saw an 8-Track tape once. I have not seen one since.

Wow. My dad had a player in his firebird, and my parents had them in this huge plastic box that was similar to the box that Atari sold to hold games. I still have some of the tapes in a box somewhere at my grandmother's

I played an Atari 2600 once, about 10 years ago. I remember thinking it really sucked. Most likely because the game I was playing was E.T..

I remember asking for specific Atari games when I was really small. The atari kept its place beneath the TV even after getting the Nintendo and Super NES. It was finally retired into a box (Still working) when I was in High School.



I didn't know what 33 or 45 RPM records were until I was 16.


I owned more of those as a kid than both of my parents combined.



I have never seen an actual, honest-to-god, black and white TV except in movies.

Jeez, I still have one.

And my family's old console TV.

I remember getting yelled at on a daily basis for playing with the old cable box which was a white thing with ascending numbers and a slider that flipped channels and was connected to the TV with a cord.

Also the Satellite dish that took up the entire front yard and hit the tree when I turned it to find a show.

So, feel old yet?

Yes, damnit. Amazing the difference 4 years makes.

 

[SaucyWench]

OMG. I'm Old School. We had one of those hand-crank meat grinders, used it for making hamburger, sausage, whatnot. We made some killer sausage too!

Thank goodness when I look in the mirror I still see the spunky 20-year-old I once was...I've aged very gracefully for an Old School fogey!

 

[ma_guy]

I was born in 1982.

I saw an 8-Track tape once. I have not seen one since.

I think of vinyl as something you make chairs and car seats out of, not something one could play music on.

So, feel old yet?

I not only own a meat grinder I still have an 8-track tape player along with several hundred 8 track tapes and 2 turntables along with a few hundred vinyl albums.

I must be an antique myself! lol