That’s actually happened to me twice. (The same beach, for the same reason [looking for a place without rocks]) and it is pretty awkward. In my defense the second time, it was not than 30 years later, and i didn’t realize it was the same beach until i walked into the nude section with my kids.
And in the near future no one will know what an elephant was.
A lifetime ago while I was still going into the office I was troubleshooting a problem with a young co-worker (~28) and were going thru the list of of possible problems and he goes, “well what’s the first thing you know?”. So I just mindless quipped back “Ole Jed’s a millionaire”. Went right over his head and he just looked at me and said I don’t get the reference.
I asked him to watch an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” and get back to me. The next day he said I still don’t get it. So I watched one on YouTube and it turns out that they don’t play any of the Scuggs and Flatts songs on the YouTube released versions due to song rights issues. What a damn shame, the beginning and ending songs were the anchor of the show.
Great. Just go back in time and explain that to my mother. Little me would have really appreciated it.
Sad but probably true. Most likely, zoos and pictures will have to do. 
I’m pretty sure we got our fixation with boiling vegetables from the British. Back in the day all the Brit cook books recommended boiling vegetables to death to “rid them of their natural impurities” and other such rot.
Long before that. 19th century cookbooks usually called for boiling all vegetables.
In “The Andy Griffith Show” Barney and Andy are at the hotel restaurant in Raleigh (!) and the menus are in French. Andy, sensibly, tells the waiter what he wants in English (figuring that the menu will have steak and potatoes, regardless of what they call it). Barney does the more foolish thing of course, and ends up with squid or some such.
I have a faint memory of the Little Rascals using this joke too. The kids are suffering in their orphanage, eating only gruel. The operator of the orphanage comes into some money and takes the kids to a fine restaurant and orders something in French - which turns out to be gruel.
I’ve had Brussel sprouts prepared by a professional chef, and I still can’t stand them.
I HATE brussel sprouts (to the extent that I won’t even look at a map that has Belgium on it).
But just yesterday I tried roasted (/fried/wood-fired/not sure what else’d) brussel sprouts ‘n’ garlic ‘n’ onions at Everly… a little ‘kreative kwee-zeen’ joint in Madison, WI.
I have never devoured half an order (it was huge for an appetizer, we split it) so fast. They were soft and crispy and so flavorful…
I still hate all other brussel sprouts, though. As I ever shall.
Yeah, boiling is a really easy cooking technology. Even if you don’t have containers that can safely be placed over a fire, there’s stone-boiling, evidence of which dates back to nearly 5,000 years ago. And a tenth-century Baghdad cookbook tells how to boil vegetables.
I wonder whether the old instructions about boiling vegetables for extended times had to do with using human waste as garden fertilizer.
But I have no idea whether they did that in tenth-century Baghdad.
I didn’t really assume boiling vegetables started with frozen vegetables, I don’t know how it came out that way. I meant to say the brussels sprout jokes might have started with the boiled frozen version. Obviously people had been boiling vegetables for a very long time.
Mush.
There’s one dish I prefer frozen vegetables for and that’s broccoli, steak, peanuts, and onions boiled in wine and/or oil. Sometimes I add frozen spinach leaves to the mix, and having them frozen means that they have more time to soak up the flavors without being boiled to death. And when I used them they’re fresh-frozen, where I use half of a package of spinach for salad and then put it in the freezer to keep longer.
The one remember was “It may have chocked Artie but it aint going to choke me!”
Ah, that makes sense. Sorry to misunderstand. Honestly, I was kinda wtf about that.
No worries. I didn’t understand why people were telling me about cavemen boiling vegetables until I went back and read what I actually wrote.
It was escargot, as I remember it.
But scrolling through this thread made me think of a joke that I may need explained to me, also from The Andy Griffith Show. The main plot was the old trope where Andy accidentally agreed to have dinner with three different people all on the same night. But a running joke throughout the episode was that every one of them served Andy spaghetti, and each host told him about how their secret ingredient was this new spice they’d just discovered called oregano.
At the time I didn’t understand why the characters would act like oregano was something brand new, but I later learned that oregano was pretty much unknown in America before WWII. So I would assume there was a period immediately after the war where it was considered a brand new, exotic ingredient, but I also assume that period was over by the 1960s and oregano was commonplace by then. So am I correct in my guess that the joke was that the people in Mayberry were kind of behind the times, and were just now learning about something the rest of America had discovered a decade or two ago?
Not so common in small rural towns. I do think by the 60s it would have been better known but the stories about Mayberry had a sort of 50s-ish bent to them often portraying the townspeople as unsophisticated.