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Lol, Henry:
What the hell are these?
Better get two.
LOL Henry is like me :(
I laughed too hard at this! 🤣
I know this comment was three years ago but covid has me watching all kinds of stuff on youtube. Your comment made me genuinely LOL
That's a rutabaga. YUM
He probably fucked them up too, he didn't have google.
A cardinal rule of "adulting", never go grocery shopping on an enpty stomach
"Look at the color difference between the tomatoes" lol its all white, gray and black
I think the narrator was high too 🤣
He never said look at the color. He told the viewer they were in-deed more colorful.
Jsyk back then it was commonly understood that the greyscale in movies were a reflection of the intensity of colour of the real-world counterpart.
The fact the Henry impulse bought and it came to a total of $1.96 is amazing
That would be a lot more now, and we technically make less than our ancestors.
Hell today food is highly processed compared to back then so that stuff Henry got is probably healthier then if he got the same thing today. Yes even the veggies which are probably more genetically modified now for better sizes or taste or whatever.
@@macaryl95 even if we make less the access to luxuries is significantly cheaper today than it would back then. So depending on the person (which tons of people make more now then they did back then), people who have less money today can still live more luxurious lives than people around the same income could back then. It depends on whether people have kids earlier, if they’re married, and what they spend their money on.
@@hf4229 You act like everyone has money to burn and good jobs aren't harder to find than they were back then.
@@macaryl95 not only did I say that it depends on how people spend money, but jobs are easier to get today. People just don’t want to work them.
Who can blame Henry for wanting to spice up their lives with oysters and rutabagas. 😜
Lol
Intriguing. 🤔
Well don't buy oysters and strawberries to spice up your life! Just ask Alan Harper! 😆
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I don't want to know what they did with the rutabaga....
Its been found combing oysters and rutabaga tends to explode 😂
I love how colorful the grade A tomatoes were. I mean, you could practically taste the red!
Actually, grocery store tomatoes in the 50s were forced ripened and tasted like Styrofoam.
Nah, that was the pesticide you were tasting. Does good for your bones! And when you sweat, no mosquitoes will touch you!
@@MrWolfSnack You had to be careful when you define the word "Red" in 1950. LOL!
Mmm DDT flavor!
@@stolte95 😂
Here are some peaches can you tell the difference?
Me: wait those are peaches I thought it was boiled eggs
Me too.
Henry is my hero. Oysters, rutabagas, and a cake... Sounds like he was either shopping to audition for "Chopped" or he just smoked a big fattie. You go, Henry Slinkman!
Lol
He should have made bread pudding lol
The best part was him with his wife dressing him down like WFTF are you thinking...I have the same question
Lol.
“Both Henry and his wife tired of the cake.” Said no one ever.
I know! I didn’t get that one either! Who gets tired of CAKE??! 😂 😝 🍰
I would guess that 1950s cake may have tasted more like todays rice cakes.
Guess they didn't know how to use refrigerator.
I mean, growing up my dad would get a dozen doughnuts from crispy creme, tell us eat as much as you want and then get frustrated becuse after 2 weeks only 1-3 where eaten but if he got us 5lbs of spinach it would be gone in a few days.
I'm told we where a wierd family but still.
I get bored of cake ridiculously easy as many of my family members/ friends all have birthdays at the same time. Absolutely can't stand it
Of course the details are out of date, but the general lessons from this still apply today.
Except they never mentioned giving preference to good on sale.
Never buy more tubs of oysters than you can reasonably eat.
Not in Thailand. Often it's cheaper to buy a dozen individually wrapped items than a pack of 12. When buying things like laundry detergent, the value of the large plastic bucket makes bulk buying far more expensive than smaller individual packets. It's insane how many things are priced here. It takes some getting used to. Buying more, or buying in bulk is often more expensive. It's counterintuitive.
@@chamboyette853 Or coupons!! 😂
@@brenthooton3412 Said no man buying oysters after smokin’ a doobie... 🤣
Whenever I find something in the grocery store and have no idea what it is, I always buy two of them also. Glad I'm not alone. Thanks Henry!
I love how the Van Kamp's Pork & Beans label is still the same, 70 years later.
I noticed that !
The label is not the same, 70 years later. Now the label says "high fructose corn syrup" in the ingredients. We're doomed.
@@maskedmotorsdiy3575 pftt
Oysters, rutabaga, and cake... Sounds like a normal meal, lol...
raerae1281 I KNEW that was a rutabaga! 😂
if she knew how to cook the rutabaga it would be ok
I thought that was an onion, oh 1950s~
maybe if the oysters were turned into a soup, and the rutabaga sliced thin instead of square cuts...
@@liz_violet I’m vegan so idk anyway lol
Oysters and cake for dinner. Henry knows how to party!
He has big plans for after dinner. 😉 Three pints of oysters. Henry is a bad boy!
The rutabaga part makes me weep, dude. "He doesn't know what it is, but it looks good. He takes two." That shit made me scream
Notice all the canned goods. Fresh veggies and fruit were largely seasonal. In winter there were mostly root vegetables and cabbage in most of the country. Few people had freezers. Refrigerators were far less good at keeping things. also they had to be defrosted weekly (look it up). Some people still had ice boxes. On the bright side there were far fewer junk foods or sugared cereals.
Income was considerably lower (although more equally distributed). My father had a good union job, still we had soup for dinner twice a week, with the meat and potatoes from it the following nights. spaghetti and red sauce, mac and cheese, canned veggies - all served with plenty of bread. Chicken, eggs and butter were still luxuries, with factory farms still in the future.
This was still mostly the case in 1961 when I moved to California. I didn't recognize half the fresh food. I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven
What a great story. Thank you for sharing.
oh yeah....the hell of defrosting a refrigerator........remember "ice picks"?
and trying to move a full tray of defrosted water to the sink, without spilling it. lol
Rhoda Miller. That was informative and interesting. Thankyoy
@Charles Gnarley sometimes neighbors helped us.......sometimes
I remember stocking shelves for my college job. I loved the price stamper. Some of the customers tipped me for carrying out their purchases to their cars.
or changing the prices? ;)
@@riverraisin1giving the family and friends discount!
Tired of the cake. Are you kidding????
Bonnie, that's a mistery for me too! :)
It was a shop cake, keep in mind back in the 1950s the vast majority of cakes were cooked at home from scratch. The shop cake probably wasn't very tasty.
@@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z Yes, they were awful until Entenmanns came along.
My mom used to save cake or pie crumbs or what might be left over and mix with Reddi Whip (packaged 'whipped cream' that was popular back then) to create a new dessert. My mom could squeeze a nickel till the buffalo pooped.
I wanna get in a DeLorean just so I can go back in time and snatch take cake before it gets tossed in that stylish 50s trash can............ and maybe sing Jonny Be Good at a senior prom while I’m there.... 🎤 🎶
"If the housewives time is not highly valued" wow
It wasn't well phrased at all and definitely sounded disrespectful. I think they should've said "if the family has little money but they have the time to preserve their own cans... Etc" Since that woman's Time saved her family's money, her time should be seen as more valued, not less!
I'm trying to teach myself home economics with the knowledge of the internet.
If school is not going to teach me-- I'd better learn it somewhere.
I learned to cook from my mom and grandmother. Summer and Fall we canned everything we could. now, 50 years later, I'm still home canning foods. What a shame parents today basically have no home economic skills to teach their kids.
A lot of the basics still apply: look at the unit price, buy in season, avoid shopping hungry.
I think the best tip ever is to use what you have and plan meals based on what you need to use first. I’ve reached the point where I nearly never throw anything out.
I even save veggie ends and meat bones to boil for stock.
It’s also helpful to incorporate coupon shopping. If you can pair a coupon with a sale on an item you’re definitely going to use, that is a win!
Very sad that schools stopped home ec. I use more of the skills I learned in home ec now than any of the other classes I took in high school...then just learned them again when I went to college. Waste.
Learn to grow food too. Your gonna need it.
My wife and I are lucky, in that we inherited an upright freezer(1970s Sears Coldspot,works like a charm!),from my grandparents, and a second refrigerator(1980s GE Hotpoint, runs the same!),from my inlaws. We grow a summer garden and freeze alot of veggies for our New England winter. We also freeze our own soups,stews,and sauces. We'll stock up on meats that are on sale,and when ground beef is on sale,we'll make meatballs in bulk for freezing,(we're both from Italian families,lol.) By the time it's winter, we go out for milk,bread,eggs,and fruit, and that's about it.
@@eckankar7756 On the other hand, we have more access to information and a wealth of people willing to share. If you made a RUclips video about your canning, someone could end up watching it and learning from you! There's a channel from a sweet ol' lady (who has tragically passed) called "Great depression cooking with Clara" where she shares some of her favorite recipes from when she was young in the depression. Heck, I've made the Texas Yum Yum cake from Brutalmoose (except i substituted every ingredient for the sugar free version, and I also forgot the sprinkles). We also have things that the older generation didn't. Ever hear of the amazing instant pot? (yeah, I know it's just a pressure cooker, but it works itself!), vaccum sealer? If she picked up that same Bird's eye veggie bag today, it would likely be one of the self-steaming packs. We learn as we go, most of us.
6 kids. All with perfect manners sitting at the dinner table. And mother looks like she's going out for an evening on the town she's so elegantly dressed. I love these videos.
and all the 6 kids are the same age too
Me to I love those looking back video's I wasn't born yet but they all did what they thought was right.
We used to dress like that. I had my first suit at 5 years old in 1960.
@@kokomo9764loved it back then, I’m 2 years younger than you:) Lol
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I just love watching these type of videos. Love the black and white film.
I wasn't even born during this time,but i love them.
Me too. Its relaxing.
The 50s were in black and white irl
I _was_ born, but I too enjoy these old vids. :-)
Henry sounds like an adventurous guy! And they really need to get a fridge so they don't have to throw away leftovers...
I save money by buying my rutabagas by the ton.
Jerald Collins 😂😂😂
Yes please!
These lessons are still really valuable
As a worker at Wal-Mart, let me say, lists do NOT always keep you from going $100-200 over what you had on the list.
+Beth Di Bartolomeo Making a list isn't enough. You have to stick to your guns and only buy what's on the list. Since it still common to pay cash in Germany, I have another trick as well. I just take a certain amount of money with me. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't spend more.
Kids can't read today anyway!
@@CologneCarter I do the same here in the states. I leave my cards at home, and only take $30-$50 with me.
Thats because most walmart shoppers aren't the most knowledgeable about budgets, or being properly dressed to go out😅
Well i buy by the case of my chickpeas,beets,spinach,mushrooms etc..... because i know i will not waste any of it and i am on a fixed income so it helps
And, like a perfect 1950's wife, Mrs. Henry Slinkman cooked the oysters, rutabaga, followed by coffee and cake, lol.
I think that Henry PURPOSELY bought silly things for dinner, just so the wife would do the grocery shopping from that point on, lol! You win, Henry, You WIN!
The oysters must have been already shucked
I love that street scene at beginning
Henry, just put the leftovers in the fridge. Don't throw that stuff in the trash. Just wrap it oysters and cake up in plastic wrap and you can have it for later. Also, if that food spoils in the fridge then you can discard it.
@TheRenaissanceman65 It was a thing back in the 50's, just like plastic.
@@andreasantoni6896 Just barely... Plastic wrap was invented in 1949.
Yea but you do realize how much more expensive buying an ice box (fridge) and plastic wapping when you are going to eat some food like sure Henry looks well dressed but that guy ain't a billionaire
I might be wrong but I don't think Henry is gonna read your comment
Fascinating how some packages have changed radically since 1950...and how some haven't
First short directed by Herk Harvey a teacher at Kansas University who later directed the 1962 cult classic Carnival of Souls.
That is amazing!
Nobody can accuse me of not eating cheap tonight.
Had hot dogs, pork n beans and cornbread for supper.
lmao who the hell impulse buys oysters?
+Daniel Calzada lol
Jennifer Kosanke Henry Slinkman does.
Ummm.... I do. It's guilty pleasure :)
A man who invaded and survived Normandy. Duh! Keep in mind the majority of adults in the US during 1950s survived 1930s Great Depression and 1940s WW2 as teens and young adults. They grew up in scarcity. Now they have all this abundance of food and items... it can be overwhelming. This video clearly was made and directed to that group to not splurge their hard earned cash freely like our modern day people are. We seriously need an updated version of this video to teach our kids about self control and being wise with money.
Jennifer Kosanke someone who wants a boner in the days before viagra lmaooooo
Henry is an absolute mad lad.
From this film I learned to eat oysters, cake, and turnips and to eat them only
after having had a shave and a haircut and putting on a very nice suit.
THATS THE SPIRIT!
@JamesPhox Same bloody thing.
Slinkman is out of control...
Today we rarely 'cook,' more often we 'warm up.' The freezer section in this video was so small compared to the isles of freezer space today, but almost all the foods frozen today are not for cooking but for warming up and eating. Processed and mass produced ready meals. If you want to save money and eat healthier buy FOOD and COOK a meal from scratch. Use left overs to create another meal later.
Watching this video made me save more money and Eat wisely. I really like those vintage videos, we can learn the real value of quality, instead of quantity.
Golly Ms. A, it sounds like you'd make a swell housewife.
No more "junkie food" for dinner... ;)
I agree. I would rather my a Liz Claiborne dress at a thrift store for $5.00 which is brand new and still has tags, than buy a $15 rag from Walmart that won't survive 3 washing without the seams ripping. Quality is always better. I have a bathrobe that is silk paisley, 30 years old, that still looks like brand new.
wmnoffaith1 Your bathrobe is older than most of the people commenting on this video!
@@wmnoffaith1 ah, the charms of the 1800s to the 1960s of clothing ingenious.
Much of what is said in this film, still holds true today.
It will probably never change, except maybe a few adjustments here and there.
Duuude, you know what sounds awesome? Turnips and cake!
When I was a kid, there was no such thing as not eating everything on your plate!
I ❤ turnips
Turnips, rutabaga, radishes, beets, parsnips…
The 1950's housewife was supposed to mix that rutabega with some greens and hamhocks-they would have loved it then! She just diced it up and put it in a pretty bowl....LOL
i love watching these 1950's videos never gets boring
My new addiction
When he asked if I can tell the difference with the peaches I just stared at them and said to myself “bruh they look exactly alike there’s no color”
I had watched this video last year, it really helped me to get the best deals by looking at the price per ounce method and shelf life stability.
I agree. Have you noticed that the bulk items are starting to be more expensive per ounce then the small packaged items. Sometimes i buy a few of the small cans because it cheaper rather than buying in bulk.
Was Henry hungry, or just pregnant?
This was before men could get pregnant.
This vid is actually _very_ educational.
My dad made sure we had a garden. And one of the various plants we had were beets. We learned one year when we decided to let them get larger than when we normally harvested them. That was the first and last year we grew them larger than the two inches across.
I really like this video because all of these tips are still applicable to today's shopping. Well an exception of maybe the grades. Most groceries are labeled "Grade A" these days. I don't think I've ever seen anything labeled "Grade B"
I think these days brand name is grade a, grade b is store brand or no name brand, grade c is food at the dollar store
Spmetimes B is labeled CHOICE grade
I heard a homesteader say grade B maple syrup is much healthier but I’ve never seen a grade B in the grocery store!
I think Henry's high
Henry today: "Dude, make that a Large pepperoni pizza, and can your driver stop and get some Twix on the way?"
He has the munchies....
I think we all thought the same thing 😂 👍
buying random shit ? Yea he is
Impulse buyer Henry is a genius. If you screw up a task you dont like bad enough your wife wont have you do it anymore.
Lol.
Henry and his wife don't like cake? What's wrong with them??
It was a shop cake, back then most cakes were homemade so maybe they only liked homemade but didn't have enough money to bake one every day.
Did you see that cake? Probably sucked all the moisture right out of your body in the first bite. (Comment necromancy go!!!)
Commies i say
No preservatives, probably was hard as a rock after the first day.
Problem- dry cake
Solution from grandma who lived the Great Depression- soak it in sweet and condensed and add some strawberries, or pour some coffee on it add sugar.
Good advice and a good film.
I won't mince words, though: all of those dang peaches looked exactly the same!
8:23 frozen food section. Today at Walmart the freezer section is five isles.
Everybody ate canned vegetables back then. They were mushy and repulsive - except for corn. Frozen veggies were more of a luxury item, and fresh were very limited and pricey.
Fresh vegetables would have been seasonal. But yes you are correct that canned vegetable were widespread. Here in the UK canned fruit was popular too.
Frozen food back then was abysmal in quality. Ice cream was basically the only thing worth getting frozen.
What they did was they would store food at 0°C for 24 hours to freeze it, effectively ruining the product. Now it's all flash-frozen.
You could store the inhabitants of a small town in the freezer section at Walmart!!!
Aisles
LOVE the bowling pin salt shaker and bowling ball pepper shaker at 5:17.... so typical of the 1950s!
Putting it into perspective for anyone in amazement at how cheap everything was , the average yearly income per middle class family in 1950 was $3300
Yes, but inflation and a stagnant minimum wage means we are more broke than they were. They could afford to get a house from the lowest paying jobs. They didn't end up starving. This was the most economically fair America.
Henry shortly turned to liquor after that trip to the store. He knew he liked whiskey....oh he knew he liked whiskey all right!
How were people suppose to guess it all looks the same...black, white, and grey
No doubt this was a staple of "home ec" classes across the nation, as well as business and other economics-based classes. "Miss Snood, can I run the projector today? Can I, huh? CAN I????".
Look at all those six kids around the table! That’s what I remember growing up in the 50s. My, times have changed.
Lesson learned?
Don't send Henry to the grocery store.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oysters, rutabagas, and white cake. Yum
It’s surprising that no one on here speculated about Henry’s possible toilet problems after a meal like that.
He probably let loose with a powerful shart exceeding any smelly explosion the little college town had witnessed in decades.
I can't wait to show this to my wife. Things are going to change around here!
Genuinely shocked at how salient and relevant the information in this video is despite its age. You'd think the lessons taught here would become outdated in 70 years, but apparently not!
Never shop when you are hungry.
There's a Henry in all of us.
That’s what his wife said after three pints of oysters. 😏
Remember to update the canned goods in your fallout shelter every six months!
Oysters and jumbo turnips again!?
What the fuck, Henry ... you do this shit every night! smh.
ᏙᎠ ᎠᎰᏚᏟᎾᎡᎠᏙᏁᎢᎰᏙ ᏚᏤᏚᎢᎬᎷᏙ ᏁᎾᏚ ᏚᏙᏞᎢᏙᎢᎾᏒᎰᏴᏌᏚ were u guessing or do u not know the word rutabaga
animecats77
Thank you for pointing that out.
Maybe I can teach you little something if you'd like to read on...
I write for a living, mainly tech manuals but I'm an educated writer. I try to write in a way that will flow for the reader by using what is called "cadence". That's a rhythmic movement in writing created by choosing and using certain words or their synonyms based on syllables and "decoding", which is the blending of letter sounds. All good writers do this naturally.
"Rutabaga" and "jumbo turnips" have the same number of syllables. However, "rutabaga" is an "uncountable noun" which means the plural of "rutabaga" is "rutabaga", no "s" is required to describe a group of rutabaga. It's like the word "information".
Saying "jumbo turnips again" has a better cadence than saying "rutabaga again". "sah" versus "ah ahh".
It's such a minor detail for most but for me it's subconscious habit.
And since I was just writing a joke I didn't feel any need to be so specific about what they were actually eating only that they've been eating whatever it is every night.
There's your lesson on writing for the day, young lady. Hope you learned a little something from it :)
Apparently, the idea of leftovers had not been invented yet. So if they didn't eat it for supper, into the garbage it went. Henry's problem was not necessarily impulse buying but going to the grocery store on an empty stomach. If your hungry and are planning a trip to the grocery store, eat a hearty snack before going. Guaranteed to save you money.
I recently lost my mom on News Years Day. So now I take care of the house. She hated it but did it well to take care of it. She had OCD about cleaning, not a scared of germs or things, just it must be done now I"ll just complain that I'm tired later because I won't let anyone have a chance to help me. That was my mom.
Other then that, we both loved going to the store. We lived with my Grandmother and did a lot for her. Mom hated it, but I loved it. Now that I've lost my mom I buy all the groceries myself. I also buy my Grandmothers things too. I always buy her the smaller can's of veggies. For me I buy both. A large one for the foods I love to eat the most, like spinach. Yum. Other can goods I only buy depending on the purpose. Because my Grandmother and I have limited budgets eating home made is pricey, but lucky for me I'm good at buying cheap and in proper sizes and good quality. Example, my Grandmother loves sandwich's so we need Mayo, I use it too so I get a large mayo so that I can make other things like Chicken, egg, or Macaroni salad. Lucky for us it might look like we waste a lot but really we waste very little. I just hope that my mom is proud of me for taking on all the things she both loved and hated.
Eszra You’re a good person, you’ll do good things.
Robin Rogers Thank you
Eszra My grandma was the exact same way.
Eszra I also love spinach.
And I Keselowski It's really good for you!
How can you throw whole cake away?
Vance Packard discussed that in his book "The Waste Makers' (1960). People do a LOT of "impulse buying" at grocery stores and supermarkets [as previously mentioned in "The Hidden Persuaders" (1957)], and tend to just "throw it away" if they feel they can't finish the cake, or whatever food they bought.
FuckHumans Easy; they didn't like it and it was hard as a rock.
It looked to be cardboard.
The cake looks a little bit like a brick
I think I'll fix oysters, rutabaga and store cake for dinner. What a great idea!
Got room for one more? :)
I miss the days of "grade A" foods. It's how we used to shop by comparing the products together. Sometimes the bigger canned goods meant leftovers for the following day. The smaller 16 oz. variety equaled out to "Get me by until payday". 🙂 Sometimes though I could make the 16 oz. cans stretch a little further. Nowadays though everything seems to be lumped together and the brand name is all there is to go buy as far as quality is concerned. Even with a list, I'm guilty like Henry Slinkman and buying on impulse at times. 🙃😊
My husband and I started canning about 7 years ago and it really does save money and it tastes better, plus you have the satisfaction of knowing how to be self sufficient.
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I clicked on this video. You can stop spamming my recommendations now, thanks
Sign of a fantastic cook... one that can make it all smell and taste right in black and tones of grey.
1:29 I know where that store is! I think that's down at 8th and Massachusetts St. It's not a grocery store anymore, but it's still got the same sort of look to the front of it. God I miss living in Lawrence...
Makes sense that it would be recorded at a Lawrence grocery store, when the production company was based there, and they used a Home Ec teacher from KU. Hell, I'm moderately sure that KU and the State of Kansas still has the legal copyright of this video.
My mom was raised in Lawrence around the time this was filmed. Freaky to know that she probably went to the same places.
Shopping lists were one of the great innovations of '50s
Before the 50's they had corner stores where you handed the clerk your list and they'd fetch it for you. People, particularly homemaking women, didn't drive, especially during the shortages of WWII. To save the hassle of a walk or bus ride with bags, they'd often phone the list to the general store and it would be delivered. In the worst case, Henry would be asking the grocer "Yeah, give me oysters and rutabaga and cake for dinner," which wouldn't fly. The 50's are when the self-serve supermarket became big, coupled with the car. That's why they had to make this video.
Lol Henry reminds me of my husband
born in'48, I remember those days, and my mother, a lowly housewife, who had to do it all. Dad worked hard, but seems to me mom worked twice as hard (and was a little depressed). Good days, good times.
Also born in '48. Remember those disgusting mushy canned peas that were almost grey? My Mom hated to cook, iron and clean, but she did it all, too. Today she is almost 90, has a cleaning lady, sends her laundry out and eats all her meals in coffee shops.
In the sixties they had mother's little helper to ease the depression
@@uthmanhanif6321, nope -- you're thinking of Quaaludes (the same stuff Bill Cosby used to drug his dates):
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone
@@debrahelmlinger6256LOL, so-called liberated women today are still depressed! Only difference is their wine is boxed, and discreetly delivered! 😂
@@collinsje5 She deserves to enjoy herself...
I love the clothes they wear to go grocery shopping. That wardrobe is classier than what most people where to parties or church these days.
Boy oh boy - kids need to see this now more than ever. They're CLUELESS on how to do ANYTHING.
??? what kids??? also some lads dont know about "the basics" because our schools care more about war history then how to cook and clean...seriously my school didn't even keep their sewing class. now we have to self-learn, which takes MUCH longer.
@@liz_violet You mean they're taught revised war history & nothing about how to be anything but good little comrades for their glorious leftist leaders. Good little government dependent slaves.
@@liz_violet we still learn how to cook,clean and still do sewing. I live in Minnesota
True that!
This was very good for a 1950s documentary. They call the woman the housewife as if she's obligated to do so, and they call the man the impulse-buying one who is dependent on his wife, so at least they aren't singling out anybody.
This is how the old mom and pop grocery stores were. Nowadays the oysters probably would be canned too. Love those prices too.
iga it still exixts mostly in small cities.
Henry sucks at shopping.
Grocers count on people like Henry, as "impulse buying" makes up a large percentage of supermarket profits.
Love the organ music in the beginning
Wow! They really need to teach this to kids in school today. This may be old, but very relevant today.
I hope they make videos like this again. Learning to shop this way would help with the obesity crisis a lot by helping people learn to use their money more wisely to buy better quality food.
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9:24 I too enjoy a plate of nothing but 10 hot dogs for lunch or dinner.
Wow, Paula Dean would be proud of the butter use in this video!
Love these old films!
and to think that all those cans are already dead.
hahaha
Van Decamp pork and beans are still around and the frozen Birdseye veggies are still around. 🙂
@@EB1878 I was noticing that too. Funny how stable some brand names are from 1950 to 2021 !!
@@EB1878 Birdseye invented frozen veges
@@EB1878 I saw Green Giant canned peas too....
I've never seen anyone look so suicidal over some unfinished oysters. Get some PERSPECTIVE, man!
He felt sympathy and remorse over his wife having to do so much work with the cooking and later cleaning all that mess up. Good man, that Henry is. He just doesn't know how to buy is all.
Turns out the cake was just a store prop.
We seriously need an updated video with this same information (except pricing of course), but have the same tricks and tips ideas to shopping. Kids today aren't taught, most kids aren't taught these important skills for daily living. I was fortunate to have most of my education within Special Ed., which means I had more reliable, sensible, real-world experience education, than my general/gifted counterparts did. I have people who are amazed by my buying habits and shocked at how much stretching my dollars can do. :) People would be amazed at how much one can buy healthily if they followed the steps shown in this video. I just wish this video had a modern day version, in color, so that I can pass on the knowledge to the next generation, who would properly find this black and white film rather dull and boring, even though the information presented is essential. Home Economics is just not an enforced subject matter in most high schools, especially not enforced in many cities and communities where the people need it the most. :~(
wow, your special ed taught you stuff!? not even my resource class taught me anything more then vocabulary! had to learn life tricks from my teachers (off-topic convos) and ma.
@@liz_violet Even now SPED teaches more life management skills (i.e. Home Economics) than General Ed. The idea behind it was that most households would not teach or allow their children to even try, because of their disabilities and/or disorders. I purposely acted out my disabilities so I could get what I consider at that time a more superior choice of education (learned to cook, clean, do laundry, shop wisely, do resumes, do job interviews, etc things needed to be a productive member of society). They gave this in SPED, never in GE or Gifted. In fact, when I got transferred into GE and Honor classes (took AP classes) I was shocked at how stupid the general population really were (some still are). They don't know how to start an essay, don't know the tricks of effectively answering the questions with supportive evidence from the story, didn't know how to do their own laundry... nothing resourceful or useful. I felt it was a mistake and asked the teacher if the counselor made a mistake on sending me to a TMH class. TMH at that time was the lowest set of classes you could go to... any more below and you'll be institutionalized or hospice; least restrictive environment for the severely disable. I offended many GE and Gifted teachers with my honesty. I wasn't able to control my straight forward persona, even today I have trouble suppressing that side of my Autism. I hate bullshit! I always had this idea that GE and Gifted were the places where I learned the academics, but all I learned that our societies are comprised of really lazy, stupid people who are incapable of looking after themselves (it's not their fault though the system failed them). 🤷♀️Even today I am shocked at the contrast differences between the levels of classes. If I had kids, I would've liked them to be in SPED because of the quality life skills education they'll receive from them. Then again, I would've more likely raised and educated them myself. Anyways I am sorry you had to rely on the teachers on off-topic or after school for your education. Your mom is awesome for at least taking over on educating you the fundamentals. That is super rare these days. If you have kids pass that onto them. We can't rely on the education system these days.
Hello! Younger generation here, watching this video for those exact reasons. I wasnt taught and want to learn. If you decide to make a video, please tag me!
Henry is a good example on why one should eat before shopping. As well as having a definite list. Otherwise one has to end up juggle the budget for a few weeks to make up for the debt occurred from not having all the money needed to pay off needed items.
10:58 That eagle's eye looks like the Soviet Hammer and Sickle.
This is great stuff, I remember some of these.
Love these old info films from back in the day!