How sad. Too bad, most “Walts” don’t have a ” Gertie” to fix them a TV dinner. Where did we go wrong in providing for the “Walts” of America and how do we fix it?
whmlll: who said anything about junk food. today’s frozen dinners (still called TV dinners by those of us of a certain generation) can be nutritious and healthy choices.
whmIII… McDonald’s Big Mac is classified as junk food.
When I was checking up on my dad after my mother passed away, he would have the “Meals on Wheels’ delivered to him, suppose to be nutritious but by his standards it wasn’t. He would want me to go to the store and buy him TV dinners for him to heat up, and gave the dog the Meals on Wheels meal. I asked him why he didn’t like the meals that was delivered to him and he said it tasted like hospital food to him…so that was the end of the story. Much more the dog sure didn’t get healthy eating it either.
In the 1960s, we kids thought TV dinners were the ultimate in cuisine, just for the novelty really. We had TV trays, and did watch TV as we ate, which was real luxury. This was in the days when neither food nor TV could ever hurt you. People were just beginning to wonder if cigarettes might be harmful, after all.
Some of us did suspect, though; and ‘coffin-nails’ were called that back in the ’20s, just not proven, which took many years and statisticians (and we’ll hear from somebody who still disputes it).
pbarnrob over 14 years ago
So she’ll get you a nice Gasette dinner, how’s that?
oldbooger over 14 years ago
How sad. Too bad, most “Walts” don’t have a ” Gertie” to fix them a TV dinner. Where did we go wrong in providing for the “Walts” of America and how do we fix it?
harebell over 14 years ago
Has he by any chance mislaid his teeth? Sure looks as if. That would explain his reluctance to eat.
countoftowergrove over 14 years ago
“I like the enchilladas and the teryaki too, I even like the chicken, if the sauce is not too blue”
ZZTop
JanLC over 14 years ago
whmlll: who said anything about junk food. today’s frozen dinners (still called TV dinners by those of us of a certain generation) can be nutritious and healthy choices.
Airboy20 over 14 years ago
Jim’s penchant for alternating some pretty decent jokes with some real groaners is at work again!
ORteka over 14 years ago
whmIII… McDonald’s Big Mac is classified as junk food. When I was checking up on my dad after my mother passed away, he would have the “Meals on Wheels’ delivered to him, suppose to be nutritious but by his standards it wasn’t. He would want me to go to the store and buy him TV dinners for him to heat up, and gave the dog the Meals on Wheels meal. I asked him why he didn’t like the meals that was delivered to him and he said it tasted like hospital food to him…so that was the end of the story. Much more the dog sure didn’t get healthy eating it either.
axe-grinder over 14 years ago
In the 1960s, we kids thought TV dinners were the ultimate in cuisine, just for the novelty really. We had TV trays, and did watch TV as we ate, which was real luxury. This was in the days when neither food nor TV could ever hurt you. People were just beginning to wonder if cigarettes might be harmful, after all.
pbarnrob over 14 years ago
Some of us did suspect, though; and ‘coffin-nails’ were called that back in the ’20s, just not proven, which took many years and statisticians (and we’ll hear from somebody who still disputes it).