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...might call the most loveable group of serving ladies the peanut-butter and jelly-flavored category. These are invariably grandmothers, usually with blue hair...
These peanut-butter and jelly ladies are always ready to laugh at a mild quip, even one deprecating the victuals. Only a smile and a nod are usually necessary to win an extra spoonful of peas or more whipped cream for the Jello. Some will go on at great length about the state of their health, or last summer's trip to Europe. Their dauntlessness in the presence of the Mother Superior often springs from seniority. Even the necessity of facing them over rows of cold limp broccoli does not diminish the pleasure of verbal contact with these fine motherly...
Soirées & Cocktail Hours. Most of them are more or less like year-round camps with an international accent. Pehaps the most famous is the Hans Brinker, at the seaside resort of Noordwijk, 30 miles from Amsterdam. Established twelve years ago, the Hans Brinker caters to the peanut-butter-and-jelly set from The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Britain, the U.S., the Arab world and several African nations at the rate of about 1,000 children a year, and at ages ranging from three months to twelve years...
...irritated by trifles. Such a small thing as, for example, dinner being five minutes late, and I do mean five minutes-it is not that I am exaggerating-he would be very angry. Or if there were no butter on the table, because he hadn't brought it from the icebox, he would with great indignation ask, 'Why is there no butter?' And at the same time if I had put butter on the table he wouldn't have touched it. This is foolishness, of course. A normal person doesn't get irritated by things...
Beans and Biscuits. The reasons for success abroad are the same ones that made convenience foods popular in the U.S.: growing incomes, less domestic help, more women away at work, changing tastes. Many foreigners, of course, do not take to such American gastronomic institutions as peanut butter and TV dinners, and some are still wary of canned goods. But American-type fruit juice, instant desserts, frozen chicken, ketchup, canned and packaged soups and precooked rice have won a prominent place on foreign shelves...