Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand Medford housewives were interviewed by University researchers this week in a survey to determine the factors influencing meat consumption...
Ayers Brinser '31, Director of Agricultural and Marketing Research, is in charge of the project. He hopes to identify and rank the factors other than price and income, which influence family meat buying...
...point of view, the trip has been more or less of a failure. They are content enough to eat Cape Town's plentiful food, but aside from the salt, they are not very fond of a civilized diet. They like their own everyday dishes, berries, roots and snake meat, better. As for all the other benefits of civilization, only the sewage system impresses them. Their loose loincloths, they say, are far superior to tight-fitting civilized clothing, and their own home brew, made from melons, has more kick than the white man's firewater...
Most of the wholesale drops have not yet reached the housewife. Oranges, for example, were still retailing last week for as much as 60? for 5 Ibs., or 18 times the price on the tree. And though meat prices were moving down in the stockyards (lamb dropped nearly $2 a hundredweight from a month ago), they were still sky-high at the retail counter. Oddest situation of all was in potatoes, which two years ago were rotting on the ground for lack of buyers. Last week there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last...
...Mettwurst, a German pork boloney, homemade by Bohling's relatives. White ripped the sausages to shreds, looking for dope or diamonds. There was only Mettwurst. The Department of Agriculture man confiscated it all pursuant to Bureau of Animal Industry Order No. 373, which forbids the importing of uncertified meat from countries infested with foot-and-mouth disease...