you realize the quality of the food back then was much worse, right?
that’s also why it was so cheap.
Screw killing Hitler with time machine technology - I just want to go grocery shopping in the mid 80s.
Submitted 1 day ago by Arustra3@piefed.social to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
moakley@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
or frozen ones that turned into mush once you cooked them. that was my mom’s speciality
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Remember to bring clean period correct cash.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 hours ago
I want to go back in time and kill Ronny Reygun in the 60s.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Better time would have been like 2012.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
In the 40s, after you kill Hitler
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I cannot stress this enough. Do not kill Hitler after 1925. Once he’s started his ascent to power the train is moving and all you can do now is change the conductor. As it happens Hitler wasn’t the best conductor. Once the war starts he’s the best person for the allies to be in charge of Germany.
Kill Hitler before he goes to jail and writes that fucking book.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
FukOui@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
You mean fascists with their own private militaries and lobby, chilling inside their 1B$ mega bunkers?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
You mean actual fascists and not just people you disagree with… right? Right???
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 15 hours ago
I’m not a fascist
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh no you didn’t!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You might appreciate this:
homes@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Keep in mind that people made a lot less back then, so the groceries weren’t as affordable as they appear. and you can’t tap your smartphone to pay, so you might run into some trouble. Even modern cash wouldn’t work back then, unless you play all in one dollar bills. Fives, tens, 20s, 50s, and 100s have all changed. People in the 1980s would think you’re playing with monopoly money.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.
sploder@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ah, a good ol hot check scam. The good days.
homes@piefed.world 16 hours ago
Not that easy. Even back in the 80s, they frequently wrote your drivers license number down on the back.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That is one of the set ups in 11/22/63. A guy was buying all the food for his diner by going back in time.
admant@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
In the 2016 show 11.22.63, Jake Epping, a recently divorced English teacher from Maine discovers that his friend’s diner had a portal that allows him to travel back to 1963.
Jake uses this portal to travel back in time to try to save Kenedy from being assassinated. His friend had done the same though it was stated in passing that he also used it to by meat on the cheap for his diner.
This is to say that the diner owner had it right. Fuck Kennedy, I’m getting those 1963 groceries, with the good fats.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Amazing book. I could read it again and again
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Good show. Great book
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Unfortunately this is how fascism starts.
We can fix the system, but instead fascists use the excuse of poverty or a broken system to gain power.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.
And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.
Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
"What i want to hear" always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 23 hours ago
They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.
xxam925@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Pudding pops.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you been watching Supermarket Sweep?
Which of these costs more than $1: Jiffy Pop, Pledge, or Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Now I gotta wake up early to turn on Price is Right to see how insane the prices are for all the bidding parts.
…It’s still on the air, right? 🤔
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
There are also 24 hour Price is Right channels on Pluto. They have both a Bob Barker channel and a Drew Carey channel.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yup, its the oldest ongoing game show and will be it’s 55th season this year hosted by Drew Carey.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I’ll take Rice a Roni, bob!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
people’s perception of cost is highly relative.
people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were. and how bad nutrition and healthcare was.
morto@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Doesn’t work in my country, because there were different currencies during the 80s (current one would have no value) and it was a period oh high economic instability and poverty
homes@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Even in the United States, all of the paper money looks very different than it used to in the 1980s except for the one dollar bill. Trying to use today’s money in the past wouldn’t work in a lot of places.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.
morto@piefed.social 19 hours ago
TIL!
Hegar@fedia.io 1 day ago
People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.
Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would've been if trump wasn't making any of the decisions - we don't have to imagine because we're living it now.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
If it wasn’t Hitler it would have been someone else. I don’t know why everyone thinks one person was solely responsible for all of it.
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was some groovy shopping music.
theedqueen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I want to be able to shop in a mall in the 90s. Maybe also a 90s toys r us.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there…
titanicx@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Mid 2000s toysrus was better for video games.
fixmycode@feddit.cl 17 hours ago
get an early start on those babies
tio_bira@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would back in time and make my grandma do a full check-up to early discover his brain cancer before become malignant.
Also would try to learn japanese and go back in 2019 and try to force Miura to do a heart check-up
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
grandma
his brain cancer
…what?
noseatbelt@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Some people whose first language doesn’t have gendered pronouns mix them up when they speak English.
LordMayor@piefed.social 1 day ago
Maybe, they transitioned before the diagnosis?
But, it was the ‘80s…
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Why?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
To smell the cigarette smoke inside the grocery store.
vane@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
2080s or 3080s ? Why everyone tries to go back in time if you can go to the future and realize that modern times are not so bad.