oh wow, yes indeed, vegetables boiled to death! That’s all we ever had. All my life I HATED vegetables until I grew up and learned there were other ways to prepare them. And yes, always white bread. And we didn’t even have BUTTER! My mom only used margarine. And no salt on anything. My mom never allowed us to salt any food. But we did have dessert every night, and often a jello “salad” as one of the dinner sides.

But fast food was certainly not a thing when I grew up. I think I’d heard of McDonalds but the first one didn’t arrive in our area until I was about 16 or 17. We went there a few times for the novelty. But until then our only option was the White Castle. We got takeout there maybe twice a year at the most but I totally adored it 😉