I was wondering when it is time for breakfast (oatmeal), the oatmeal bowls are fixed, but never eaten, the family always get right up from the table, also I thought they were poor, how could they afford to fix lunches everyday when they were eating oatmeal for breakfast, I thought the evans family could not afford meat? LUNCH?????

They were poor, but not hungry, that's for sure. Did you ever see that oatmeal they prepared? That junk looked like old stucco. I wouldn't eat it either. :rofl:

As for making lunches, it is not expensive to make a sandwich for three kids and a fruit and snack. It is cheaper to make three lunches everyday than to give the kids money to buy lunch.

They were poor, but not hungry, that's for sure. Did you ever see that oatmeal they prepared? That junk looked like old stucco. I wouldn't eat it either. :rofl:

As for making lunches, it is not expensive to make a sandwich for three kids and a fruit and snack. It is cheaper to make three lunches everyday than to give the kids money to buy lunch.

Believe it if you want to? Fruit? Where's the beef? :eek:

Believe it if you want to? Fruit? Where's the beef? :eek:
Have no idea what you mean. :confused: :crazy:

Have no idea what you mean. :confused: :crazy:

They could not afford meat remember????????:eek:

They could not afford meat remember????????:eek:
They ate meat many times on the show. They had turkey, ham, chicken, pork chops, ribs.

They ate meat many times on the show. They had turkey, ham, chicken, pork chops, ribs.
Don't forget pigs' feet, ham hocks, and Gertie's meatloaf. :lol: OK, I don't think they ate that last one. :rofl:

They ate meat, they just couldn't afford to get the good cuts of meat. Chicken was their best bet when it came to the meat department.

Someone once said that diet is the last thing to change when people migrate to a new location. The soul food tradition is filled with high fat stuff: chitlins (which are scraps), pork, cracklin (pork rinds), greens with pork, pork and beans, heavy starch in the meals (meals with rice and beans, root vegetables and macaroni or potato salad all at once). And when Good Times was made they were still using Crisco shortening to fry foods. It was tradition. Fresh fruit were probably hard to come by. Even today in the hood/ghetto neighborhoods fruit are either unnecessarily expensive or of poor quality, old spoiled etc. Florida or some other character mentions this in the episode with Paula Kelly as the doctor. The episode where they all got sick from eating the meat from Borden's market brings up the other major issue: poor quality meat. The oatmeal they ate in the mornings as nasty as it looked onscreen was probably the most healthful thing they ate in that household. BTW I was impressed that they had a working stove and oven on that set. It added considerably to the reality.

Someone once said that diet is the last thing to change when people migrate to a new location. The soul food tradition is filled with high fat stuff: chitlins (which are scraps), pork, cracklin (pork rinds), greens with pork, pork and beans, heavy starch in the meals (meals with rice and beans, root vegetables and macaroni or potato salad all at once). And when Good Times was made they were still using Crisco shortening to fry foods. It was tradition. Fresh fruit were probably hard to come by. Even today in the hood/ghetto neighborhoods fruit are either unnecessarily expensive or of poor quality, old spoiled etc. Florida or some other character mentions this in the episode with Paula Kelly as the doctor. The episode where they all got sick from eating the meat from Borden's market brings up the other major issue: poor quality meat. The oatmeal they ate in the mornings as nasty as it looked onscreen was probably the most healthful thing they ate in that household. BTW I was impressed that they had a working stove and oven on that set. It added considerably to the reality.

yup and you actually see florida frying chicken in one episode-lol I'm thinking it was a season 2 episode

yup and you actually see florida frying chicken in one episode-lol I'm thinking it was a season 2 episode


Yeah I was always amazed by that. Also on "All In the Family" Edith had a working stove.

Don't forget pigs' feet, ham hocks, and Gertie's meatloaf. :lol: OK, I don't think they ate that last one. :rofl:
:rofl:

That meatloaf looked PINK! :eek:

^ puke: You couldn't PAY me to eat that. I don't care if it wasn't really dog food!! :lol:

I love how JJ goes on and on about how Florida could take one chicken and stretch it to make meals all week! (talk about STRETCHING! LOL) :D

^ puke: You couldn't PAY me to eat that. I don't care if it wasn't really dog food!! :lol:
Ohhh I agree with you on that Salt Sister. It was nasty lookin'...:eek2:
Didn't it have pineapples on top too or was that just the color?

Ohhh I agree with you on that Salt Sister. It was nasty lookin'...:eek2:
Didn't it have pineapples on top too or was that just the color?
I don't remember - it's been quite awhile since I've seen that ep. :lol:

that was the funkiest looking meatloaf ever! "Better eat it while it's hot. Once it gets cold, it loses some it's bite!: LOL :D

that was the funkiest looking meatloaf ever! "Better eat it while it's hot. Once it gets cold, it loses some it's bite!: LOL :D
:rofl: Yeah, and the prayer J.J. said right after that..."The Lord is my German Shepard..." :rofl: No matter how many times I see that scene, I crack up big time. :brent

That meatloaf was pinkish looking. It looked NASTY AS HELL! :puke: And it was kinda sunk in the middle there. It reminds me of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. :eek:

I HATE OATMEAL!!!! :mad:

I don't know what the prop people were doing, but that sure as heck wasn't meatloaf! Maybe it was SPAM loaf! :puke:

yup and you actually see florida frying chicken in one episode-lol I'm thinking it was a season 2 episode
I like oatmeal, it's good and real healthy.