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Ed Pawlowski[_5_]

On 2/18/2019 1:32 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> On 2019-02-17 3:34 p.m., wrote:
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>>>> The computer you used 20 years ago sucked compared to today's
>>>> computers. Do you think food is any different?
>>>
>>> Yes, food has greatly deteriorated, along with taste expectations...
>>> most people nowadays think shit tastes wonderful, their taste buds
>>> have migrated to their rectum... eat enough fast food you too will
>>> contract chronic TIAD.
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>> I think that some fruits and vegetables tasted better. Maybe I was
>> spoiled by having a vegetable garden and ate lots of tomatoes and
>> beans fresh from the garden and they had much nice flavour than the
>> stuff we buy these days.Â* Ketchup used to be thick and rich.Â* The old
>> ketchup commercials used to use the song "Anticipation" to demonstrate
>> how thick it was. Now they have bottles with the dispenser on the
>> bottom so it runs out easily and you don't notice how thin ans sloppy
>> it is.
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>>> Restaurant food was better 20 years ago... was much better 60 years
>>> ago.... evenÂ* your favorite Golden Arches burger was far better
>>> quality way back when it cost 15Â¢.
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>> I don't really count McDs as a restaurant. I never liked their food.
>> I think restaurants are infinitely better than they used to be.Â* Most
>> mom and pop places didn't have chefs or even good cooks. They were
>> burger flippers and deep fryers. Most places had the same old dinner
>> food, hamburgers, dries, onion rings, tuna salad, BLTs, westerns,
>> (canned) soups and hot roast beef or turkey.Â* The more expensive
>> places were, at best, good home cooking.Â*Â* There are a lot more decent
>> places these days and they sell much better and much more diverse
>> foods, and the food is usually prepared by trained cooks.
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>>> Truth is when you bought a computer 20 years ago it ran for twenty
>>> years.Â* Today computers have lots more technology but you're lucky if
>>> they last 2 years.Â* I knew right away that computer longiviety was
>>> going downhill fast when their steel cabinets and chasssis became
>>> plastic.
>>
>> The real truth is that if you got a new computer 30 years ago it would
>> be obsolete within two years. My first PC was an XT with a 20 meg hard
>> drive that cost me $430 and made me the envy of my computer geek
>> friends who were still using floppy discs to boot up with DOS.Â* You
>> can now get USB sticks with about a million times the capacity for
>> about $20, and hard drives usually crashed within 2-3 years.
>>
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>>> I remember flying TWA, their Tourest Class was more posh than today's
>>> First Class, and air travel meals were superb
>>
>> True. The treatment was much better. However, the airlines are in hot
>> competition and running on a very narrow profit margin. My good friend
>> is a retired airline pilot and he says that the cost of running an
>> airline are so high it is amazing that they don't all go broke.
>>
>> Air fare is cheap these days. It used to be unaffordable for most
>> people now entire families fly on vacation.Â* When I was a teen I knew
>> a lot of people who would drive to Florida for a winter vacation. It
>> would take 2-3 days of driving each way, and that mean hotels and
>> restaurant meals along the way. It's cheaper for them to fly now, and
>> they get to spend more time at their destination.Â* Most people can
>> cope with a couple hours in the air without having to have a meal.
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> Airplanes now are buses with wings.

Buses are more comfortable though.