Fast food utensils - before plastic

[Kev Williams]

Waxed paper straws- anyone besides me that used to ram them thru raw potatoes? Very hard to do with plastic straws, need that wax!

wood stick spoons-
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I just finished eating the one in front there -- these things are like Dreamcicle's in a cup, which BTW along with Fudgecicle, Popcicles and even the high-end Magnums all come attached to a stick!

---And, you guys who say you grew up with no fast food-- ? I'm 64, and back in the 50's we had FrostStops, Hires, and several family owned burger joints, the one near us was the Auntie-Freeze, they sold burgers, fries, hot dogs and fish n' chips... 25c got you an actual LARGE order of fries, a paper bag (1 size up from a lunch sack) about 2/3 full.. Once a week my old man would buy us dinner there, a dozen burgers and a bag o' fries, I think the bill was less than $3...

And then there were these--
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-I guess those aluminum trays weren't exactly 'utinsels', but haven't seen one of those in awhile-

[Bill Dufour]

I do remember Slim Pickens last movie where he was trying to sell folks a franchise to "Spaghetti in a sack". yes it would fall through the sack but that is what it fun and exciting to the customers.
Bil lD

[Bill Jobe]

I do remember Slim Pickens last movie where he was trying to sell folks a franchise to "Spaghetti in a sack". yes it would fall through the sack but that is what it fun and exciting to the customers.
Bil lD

Was that before or after riding and atomic bomb like it was a bucking bronco?

[andrew whicker]

I'm pretty libertarian, but banning plastic bags in my area would be awesome.

There are just problems that individuals can't solve very well, but collections of people can solve. Maybe we could tax them out of existence vs outright banning. Either way, whales dying after ingesting pounds of plastic is not acceptable.

[Brian Elfert]

I've read that landfills are so compacted these days that biodegradable products don't really degrade due to lack of oxygen.

[Bill Dufour]

This was a much later movie. You are thinking of Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y
Bill d

[Bill Dufour]

This thread made me look it up. Those Chinese food paper boxes are an American invention. they are called oyster boxes. Invented around 1880 when people bought lots of fresh shucked oysters to take home and cook until overfishing and pollution destroyed the harvest.
Bill D.

[Jim Koepke]

-I guess those aluminum trays weren't exactly 'utinsels', but haven't seen one of those in awhile-

You can thank the microwave oven for that.

As technology evolves, it can displace other technologies.

jtk