Contest Entry: A 1907 winter luxury

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

Think crisp cool chilly wintry luxuries on this 104º day in July!

Comments

yes!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i will admit that i raided the pantry for my own invention of a sammich...peanut butter and mincemeat. OH such good stuff!!!

Re: yes!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Wow! self-cleaning Grecian currants!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Yummy yummy suet! I always liked the Heinz pickle logo! I'm glad it's still around.

I'm having a hard time buying the part about cleansing each currant by itself. Really? Someone cleaned currants one at a time?

[donnalee-kiss.livejournal.com]

Yuck....tried it once and said no way ever again.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I adore what we call mincemeat, which is everything they mention except meat. I'm curious to taste the real thing!

But not today. Too effing hot to eat.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Things like these confuse me. Mincemeat hardly has any meat in it, and sweetmeats are candies. And sweetbreads are parts of an animal!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's because "meat" used to mean "food":

O.E. mete "food, item of food" (contrasted with drink), from P.Gmc. *matiz (cf. O.Fris. mete, O.N. matr, Goth. mats "food," M.Du., Du. metworst, Ger. Mettwurst "type of sausage"), from PIE *mat-/*met- "measure" (see meter (2)). Narrower sense of "flesh used as food" is first attested c.1300; similar sense evolution in Fr. viande "meat," originally "food."

But yeah, it confused the hell out of me as a kid.

I see also that "white meat" used to mean "foods prepared from milk" (early 15c.) Huh. That's a new one on me.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

I was grossed out to find that mincemeat was about ground beef and raisins and other candied fruit. Blech.

So is the assortment of other "dainties" offered by Heinz.

And, under the pickle, there's the number '57'. Fifty seven what? Is someone into a kind of numerology? I think we still have Heinz 57 sauce. I wonder what wholesome piquant goodness is it made from?

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

57 Varieties-- or products. At the time they produce 57 different products.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love learning things here!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

I am a bit baffled by this too...my greatgrandmother made mincemeat pies. She was born in 1872 and her mincemeat did not have any meat in it.