Why Americans Were So Slim in the 1970s (A Lunch Lady Tells the Truth)

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2, or a family, $27): http://dorislunchlady.com/ My father wore the same belt to the shoe factory for twenty years, and the buckle never once moved to the next hole. I am Mrs. Doris. I grew up in Scioto County, Ohio, in the 1960s and 70s, then stood at a school lunch window for thirty-five years and watched what came through it change. People ask why everybody was slim back then, and they want the answer to be willpower. It was not willpower. It was fifteen plain things about how a day went, and I watched every one of them leave. Pop in a little glass bottle on Saturday, the nine-inch plate, the scoop with a number on it, a snack that was a thing and not a bag, a car with nowhere to put a cup, walking a mile to school, forty minutes of recess, the streetlight rule, television that went off at midnight, work done on your feet, the grocery envelope, supper cooked from things, eating out twice a year, dessert as a square that ended the meal, and number one, the one I miss most. #1970s #nostalgia #lunchlady