Back before the 1970’s if a woman was travelling she’d have her husband or a porter carry her bags. With the rise of women travelling alone there was suddenly a market for wheeled bags. Men didn’t want them because they made men look too weak to carry their own luggage.
Fellas is it weak to not carry your 50lb suitcase everywhere? Definitionally yes but oh my god how fragile.
Almost no “traditional” recipes are older than 150 years.
Edit: i meant meals, not basic fare.
Traditional food : bread
You: “Almost no”
Comments: pff look, some example!
Reading comprehension is in the dirt.
Porridge has been around since roman times.
Is it comparable to today’s oatmeal? Is porridge a separate food from oatmeal?
Oatmeal is a type of porridge, but you can make it from a lot of grains
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Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren’t introduced until westward exploration.
Why would anybody care? The only thing that matters is who uses them to make good stuff.
While true, this can be done by Italians to other nations with Worcestershire sauce, baklava and principate though.
And borsch wasn’t red. It’s called because of the plant that was the main ingredient.
Which is mostly not used now because of its intentionally bred toxic relative being a really problematic invasive species in all of former USSR and around.
And another thing that “wasn’t introduced until westward exploration” is English-speaking Americans
Shall we mention the potato
It was a turnip replacement, I think, in most cuisines
Also corn, bell peppers and chocolate.
McSorleys in NYC was men only until a 1970 legal ruling, and didn’t have a women’s restroom until 1986.
Their motto prior to 1970 was “Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies”
Nothing more manly than being surrounded by dudes and raw onions while getting drunk because you’re too much of a wuss to go to therapy or even address emotional trauma yourself.
I also like how they had a gender neutral bathroom.
It’s 2025 and my invention idea from the 1980’s, the glow in the dark toilet seat, still hasn’t taken off. Makes me want to quit inventing.
Makes me want start pooping.
For some of the kids here: SPAM of the mail variety was not a thing before 1995.
Fist bumps, obviously.
Dapping. Its called dapping. To dap someone in greeting.
Bro punch
What is that? I’m picturing Everclear and Prime.
Back in my day it was called goose juice, and had Gatorade
I’m confused, does OP want to know what people were doing before high fives or what was recently invented?
Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
It’s not going to get better until we start killing office buildings full of these people.
Credit scores are as old as the simpsons!!
1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it’s when Special Relativity came out.
That’s older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it’s also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
The wright brothers flew almost 2 years before special relativity came out.
Meh, you could do signal amplification via transformers and tuned resonators.
It sucked, but it was possible.
That’s how we had telephones before we had tubes.
Transformers can increase voltage while decreasing current, or increase current while decreasing voltage, but can’t increase a signal’s power.
I know, but this just means you start with a very high current signal.
You lose a lot, but again it’s what we had before transistors.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6802a819-b230-8002-b359-b206b5c52834
It’s basically blood magic.
It’s signal amplification by cannibalizing other band stop signals.
That’s a cool story, thanks for sharing!
Wtf is a triode?
three electrodes
Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I’m scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso’s chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most “Chinese” food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
This is a dumb one, but I’ve watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like “Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah” Yeah… It was made up in the
50’s1910s by some dude.If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.
Yeah, it looks like you’re right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:
Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.
So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from “ancient”.
Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.
It was to protect the ancient secrets of reiki from intrusion.
Because I am an idiot on some form of autopilot. I never type full links in comments but I definitely wasn’t thinking when I did that this time.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
I still can’t do that
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
Who started putting avocado in sushi? I hate that shit. It seems like everyone thinks it’s key ingredient in sushi rolls now.
bestest sushi
You know multiple people who are 123 years old???
I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.
