Sandwiches and Housewifery

 

Dagwood made his own sandwiches!

Happy Tuesday friends,

 Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4!

November 3rd is both national sandwich day and national housewife's day.

In the 1950s working married women outnumbered working single women , In a US  population of a little over 161 million, over  9 million married women worked, while only 5 million single women had jobs.

The Dagwood sandwich  based on the Chic Young comic 
" Dagwood", became very popular and men made them for themselves, the bigger the better.  

1. What is your favorite sandwich ? I would have to say a BLT with fake bacon is my favorite and if the fake bacon is not available  then sliced Jersey tomatoes on toast with mayo mixed with a bit of balsamic vinegar.  I could eat them by the dozen.

2. Do you have a favorite Sandwich shop?  We all know that soup and a sandwich is a great lunch but do you ever eat sandwiches for breakfast or supper?

Richard's Sub World and Deli is great for most subs.

Deisel's is good too.

The Roman Pantry in Penns Landing/Carney's Point makes the best Philly cheese steak ever.  They don't even make them this good in downtown Philly.

  It is Bruce Willis' favorite sandwich shop too.  The first time I had a cheese steak there I thought I'd gone to heaven.

Also there was a place in Kenilworth, NJ where they had the best Italian hotodogs known to
mankind.  (Italian hot dog is a deep fried hot dog on a sub roll, with fried onions and peppers, fried potatoes and sauce on it.  You ain't lived til you have one.

3. Growing up did your mother , grandmother, aunts have a job as well as being a housekeeper?

Of course.  My mom was a registered nurse but also worked with my dad.  My maternal grandmother worked with the ILGW (international ladies garment workers) , was a piano and organ  teacher and also was a baker.   My aunt was town clerk.

Of my friends, most of them had working mothers in the 50s-60's, 70s and 80s.

I laugh when they talk about "trad" wives.  Women have always worked and even the stay at home women worked hard at home.   

Then they quote Proverbs 31 wife as a trad wife proving they never read it.   She owned a business, bought and sold real estate and provided for her family.  She had vineyards... the woman was a workhorse! 

4. According to the United Nations, unpaid domestic labor is the number one most important driver of the entire global economy. 

78% of women shoulder all the domestic and child caring labor as well as holding down full or part tme jobs.  Without women the global economy would fail.

Did you juggle a family and a job ?

I sure did.  At one point I held down two full time jobs and still had 2 kids in school and a bed ridden mother to care for.  I worked one job from 8 to 4 and the other from 4:30 to 11:00.  

Monday, Monday

OK, I have been thinking about the so-called Boomer generation and I have to find a problem with their evaluation of it being from 1945 through 1965.

People born from 45 to 55  and were elementary school kids in the 50s... high school in the 60s are not the same people as those  born in the later 50s and who were teens in the 70s which was really the drug/free love hippy time.

And certainly those born in 1965 are very different again.   They simply made the "boomer' generation far too big. The 60s were a time when boys still wore crew cuts and skirts were knee length.  You still had to wear dresses and skirts to school and boys were in dressy/casual pants and button down shirts.

Jeans and tee shirts were 70s era.

I am also not a fan of dividing up generations but labeling seems to be a fixed habit today.   Everyone carries labels.  It is divisive.  

Older people complain about kids.. they can't read cursive.  Well, you older ones can't read hieroglyphics either and you most likely can't understand Old English.
Can you read this excerpt from Beowulf in old English?  What's the problem, are you stupid?  No, of course not.

Things change.  Language chanbes, writing changes too.

Education has dumbed down in many cases.   We had to learn Beowulf in school. I doubt they do today but still the kids who can program your phone for you and help you with your computer are not stupid in any way.  They may lack education but this is the result of the government interfenence. 

 Read Charlotte Eiserbeat on that! 

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (1930–2022) was a former Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan (1980–1982) and a critic of the American public school system

Her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronilogical Papertrail.

A dumb population is easier to control and to fool.

Anyway, just a few random thoughts that entered my head on a Monday.

Another Sunday, Another Meme

 

  Welcome to Sunday Stealing.   Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the
blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week we're inspired by Blogography. More than 20 years ago, he stole this meme from Neil, his blogging buddy. Alas, Neil's blog no longer exists, so that's where the trail goes cold.

Another Sunday, Another Meme

1. Do you have a business card? If yes, what's your job title?   Not anymore, no.  At one time I had a cute little business card made for me in Virginia Beach that said my name and then "Professional wife and Mommy."

2. What day of the week were you born?   Tuesday's child is full of grace.

3. What vegetable do you refuse to eat?   I like them all. Brussels Sprouts and broccoli are at the top of the list.

4. How many times have you stayed overnight in the hospital?    I  had extensive spinal surgery and was in the hospital from May 18th to nearly the end of August.   I was supposed to stay another 2 months but I went home because I was so homesick.  So they gave me a home nurse and physical therapist to vist me each day for another month until I was fit to go out for PT.

5. Do you have more piercings or tattoos?   No tattoos but pierced ears.

7. How much cash is in your wallet right now?    Not much.

8. Let's play MASH:    Do you live in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house?   I live in a little house in a coastal community.  

9. Where are you in the family birth order (oldest, middle child, youngest, or only child)?

I am my mother's only child and my father's youngest child, but I was raised as an only child as the half siblings  were very much older and off with their own families.

10. When you were 5 years old, what did you call your parents?   Mommy and Daddy