Pork Lion Roast in a Slow Cooker
Grocery Shopping, 70’s Style
In 1970, the average grocery store carried 8,000 items. Today’s average grocery store stocks 77,000 items. In the 70s when we went grocery shopping we didn’t pull up in front of a mega-building where you can pick up everything from tires to toys; apples to zucchini. Grocery shopping was different.
In my family it went like this. Shopping was a series of stops based on the menu. It might take all morning.
So let’s say we were shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. Our simple menu would include things like this.
A turkey (of course), stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, acorn squash, a fruit salad, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie. By our standards that was an Irish feast.
Off of this list, the only things we’d buy at the regular grocery store were the ingredients for the stuffing, the frozen peas and ingredients for the fruit salad. The rest of the cart that week would be stuffed sky high with the things you need to feed seven kids their breakfast before they marched off to catch the bus.
Everything else on that list was purchased at specialty shops...
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Pork Lion Roast in a Slow Cooker
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