Back when I was a kid snacks in between meals just weren’t a thing. You got fed 3 times a day and only water in between. Maybe if you were lucky or sick you got a milky drink last thing at night to help you sleep. Also, bananas were pretty expensive, strickly for celebrations only. Fruit cheap enough to feed to kids on demand was pretty much apples & oranges in winter and whatever you grew yourself in summer. No I didn’t get scurvy.
I don’t remember a time before bananas, but I remember watermelon with pips in was a common summer fruit. Seedless varieties didn’t exist yet. And grapes used to be sold in big piles with the variety labeled such as Sultana grapes. Now you can only buy them in pre portioned bags labelled red and green.
Back when I was a kid snacks in between meals just weren’t a thing. You got fed 3 times a day and only water in between. Maybe if you were lucky or sick you got a milky drink last thing at night to help you sleep. Also, bananas were pretty expensive, strickly for celebrations only. Fruit cheap enough to feed to kids on demand was pretty much apples & oranges in winter and whatever you grew yourself in summer. No I didn’t get scurvy.
I don’t remember a time before bananas, but I remember watermelon with pips in was a common summer fruit. Seedless varieties didn’t exist yet. And grapes used to be sold in big piles with the variety labeled such as Sultana grapes. Now you can only buy them in pre portioned bags labelled red and green.