Buying Food (1950)

★★★★★ · Starts Out Sounding Like A Hockey Game · JayKay49 · 2016-01-24

But promptly evolves into a educational trip to a small grocery store in the middle of flyover country back in a time when such places were devoid of moslems. A 12 cent can of pork & beans?? Today that can would be $1.59. But so what. 37% of households have EBT cards and when you pay with a credit card, the pain only comes once a month instead of every time you go to the checkout. Oysters. Ugh! The hungry sap tossed away half of his paycheck there. Oysters were not by any means cheap back then. That wife should have crowned him over the head with a pressure cooker lid. I like this film. The…

★★★★ · Mmm! An Oyster, Unidentified Vegetable and cake dinner! · Spuzz · 2006-01-01

Fun antiquated film teaching young women how to economize for the home when shopping for food. This film covers one of my favorite subjects in euphemeral land, which is food, and provides curiously fascinating glimpses do's and don'ts for the postwar shopper. Which canned product suits your family? Which meat is best for you? I was especially interesting in their definition of impulsive buying, which in my view differs from the way we know impulse buying now. Also love the way the film encourages houseives to experiment with cheaper forms of meat, which yes, meant Hamburger and weiners. Yum!

★★★★ · Bring on the Oysters, Rutabaga, and Stale Cake! · Christine Hennig · 2004-09-16

Straightforward Centron home ec film about getting the most from your food dollar. This is fun because it shows lots of 50s food products and 50s supermarkets. And just because itÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs a home ec film, a genre I particularly enjoy. Also fun is the opening and closing theme music that sounds like Centron hired the organist at the local roller rink to do it. Beware of impulse buying, or you might end up like the bad example in this film, with a dinner consisting of oysters, rutabaga and stale cake. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: **. Historical Interest: ****. Overall…

★★★★ · A guide on how to guard against gastronomical gaffes at the grocery store · GE_Pretzel · 2006-07-03

This simple home economics film offers sensible advice for housewives who have the taxing job of wading through the aisles at their local supermarket in order to make purchases that will satisfy their families while keeping the finances in the black. Viewers are told how to compare varying quantities of identical food items, evaluate product labels, observe seasonal price changes of fruits and vegetables, and make other important considerations. They are also strongly cautioned against impulse buying when a hasty shopper ends up presenting his wife at home with an undesirable meal consisting…

★★★ · Food Shopping 101 · Bob Capps · 2006-07-15

Enjoyable short film about how to develop economic shopping habits. Interesting 1950 street scenes shot in Lawrence, Kansas. The food would look tastier if it had been filmed in color, but it was still fun. Great product placement for Birds Eye and Green Giant.