{"id":34644,"date":"2017-12-08T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34644"},"modified":"2017-11-21T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:34:56","slug":"qotd-why-mid-20th-century-americans-ate-what-they-did-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/qotd-why-mid-20th-century-americans-ate-what-they-did-7\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Why mid-20th century Americans ate what they did &#8211; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Entertaining was mandatory [in the 1950s]. Because people didn\u2019t go to restaurants so much, they spent time having people over, or eating at someone else\u2019s house. If someone had you over, you had to have them over. This meant people had to have \u201ccompany dinners\u201d they could make, or at least a stock of <em>canap\u00e9s<\/em> they could throw together for a cocktail party, even if they weren\u2019t very good at it. Cue the weird focus on prettying everything up, more than occasionally to the detriment of the food itself: if you can\u2019t make it good, you can at least make it pretty, to show people you made an effort.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-10-30\/friday-food-post-the-economics-behind-grandma-s-tuna-casseroles\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Friday Food Post: The Economics Behind Grandma&#8217;s Tuna Casseroles&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2015-10-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertaining was mandatory [in the 1950s]. Because people didn\u2019t go to restaurants so much, they spent time having people over, or eating at someone else\u2019s house. If someone had you over, you had to have them over. This meant people had to have \u201ccompany dinners\u201d they could make, or at least a stock of canap\u00e9s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,74,66,7,41,13],"tags":[1063,311],"class_list":["post-34644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-health-science","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1950s","tag-1960s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-90M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40941,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34644\/revisions\/40941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}