Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Campbells, anyone?
My mother’s generation was the first to really tackle full-time employment outside the house. They didn’t negotiate the division of household duties well when taking on their 9-5, and retained responsibility for almost all the work their mothers and grandmothers did around the home. Including the cooking. My generation ate a lot of canned soup.
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I must ask my kiwi city friends who had full-time-employed mothers about what they ate.
ReplyDeleteEven with a stay-at-home mom, we ate a lot of canned soup! And jello. And pizza made from a box.
ReplyDeleteAnd TV dinners. In front of the TV.
ReplyDeleteMy mom was stay-at-home and while we didn't eat that much canned soup (except for lunch) she cooked with it a lot.
ReplyDeleteWe ate a lot of canned soup too--not for dinner, necessarily, but for lunch with a sandwich (grilled cheese with Campbell's tomato soup was a favorite).
ReplyDeleteI ate a lot of canned soup. I now have trouble eating canned soup.
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