Everyone who loves this post as much as I do will be very happy to know these two amazing girls are still doing good and just celebrated their two year anniversary back in September. :3
Here’s a pic from Alana’s instagram.
CUTE~~~<3
A Second Much Needed Reblog Update:
This is a message from Alana to all those who love her story.
I am in tears holy SHIT this is so sweet and good and cute and it is so nice to see this on my feed cuz everything has been kinda shitty but this… This is sweet.
They suddenly had money, fridges, freezers, and access to a variety of foods – all things that hadn’t been widely available before. Suddenly people had access to things that were beyond the dreams of people just a 100 years prior.
Enter corporations willing to go “oh yeah, you know what’s great (now that you can afford it)? Cold beef soup, served in a glass. Drink up your beef!”
Early 40s/50s foods are something I’m very passionate about.
They had no concept of what flavors tasted good together so they tried everything. The biggest ideas that were latched on to were things like loafs with layers that compose your entire meal and the suspension of basically anything/everything in jello (jello actually helped food last longer, because the gelatin sheltered whatever ingredients were used from bacteria. So, naturally, you put a fish in it).
Also pineapple. It was harder to get before then so the sudden availability of it made people go nuts. Bananas too to a degree.
Welcome to the wild and wacky world of Aspic, otherwise known as meat jello.
jello history is a fucking trip
Hey @ both my group chats, look, my hairbrained rants about jello were not totally off the mark
That meat jello pic gave me a brain tumor.
I have a great aunt who used to bring ham in jello to every family reunion and then get offended because no one would eat it.
No, Aunt Ruby, we don’t hate you, we just hate your nasty fucking meat jello.
You do realize that like in the case of the Miracle Whip, the way it was both made and tasted in the ‘40′s and ‘50′s is totally different than it tastes now. I mean how it tasted in the ‘70′s when I was growing up is very different than it is now.
That “Ham Jello” doesn’t taste right today because you are using actual “Jello” or “Gelatin” that you buy at the store (plant of algae based). But the Original Recipe used rendered “Animal Collagen” as the Gelatin, something I can’t find at the store, and would need to make myself. (My Grandmother made that meat jello, with the proper gelatin, and it was delicious, but if you use the stuff you buy at the store today, it tastes like crap AND it doesn’t hold together very well either. The salt in the ham tends to make it come apart.)
I run into this issue with my wife all the time now. She remembers how foods tasted growing up, and she pulls out her mom’s recipe and can’t understand WHY it doesn’t taste the same, even though she is using the “Same” ingredients. I keep trying to explain to her that she isn’t using the same ingredients. “It calls for Shortening!” she says pointing at the recipe, and I look at her and ask…”Animal or Vegetable?” “There is only one type of shortening!” Sure enough, we go to the average grocer and she points to the tubs of Crisco smuggly, then points to the blocks of other brands, all of which are marked “Vegetable”. Then I point to the package of “Sno-Cap” which is Lard, or Animal Shortening. “That’s Lard, it isn’t used for baking!” she cries…
We have dumbed down our tastes to meet the mass produced standards of today. That has ruined really good foods of our pasts.
Colorization by me, original photo from @sixpenceee
This is amazing! Thank you.
Honestly, this is one of the most chilling pictures I’ve ever seen, especially colorized.
Four years later in 1944, these two were deported to Auschwitz, but were spared from the Auschwitz Gas Chambers and were sent to Bergen-Belsen, where they died a year later in 1945. Barely five years after this picture was taken these two died of Typhus in presumably the most violent concentration camp the Nazis made.
Pictures like these are both heart warming and depressing. They were so happy before their lives were taken… They could have lived such wonderful and lengthy lives.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.“ This quote makes me sad every time I read it, knowing that the very people she hoped would change resulted in her eventual death.
I drew this during a rainy day back in september but i abandoned it halfway through. I finally had some time to spare today so i finished it. It’s still rainy.
I was curious about something, because with the light of the Amazon announcements, I realized that as a fandom, we treat Christopher, Tolkien’s 2nd youngest child, like he’s a second JRR Tolkien–and don’t get me wrong, I love his work with the Histories, but I realized a major error in our fandom as well.
For all our talk of “but what about women in Tolkien’s works” I realized that there are no search results for his only daughter and youngest of his children. Not on tumblr at least.She’s not devoid of interaction, either, as she has written articles, given talks, and supported general fanworks (such as the Tolkien Ensemble).
She co-published the Tolkien Family Album, with her older brother, John (now deceased).
Why does it bother me so much that she has no search results, despite also the severe irony of “We only care about his surviving son, and not at all his only daughter, who her parents had long hoped for.”? Because all of his children are extremely crucial to his work, and not just his sons.
Frodo is named after her stuffed bear (Bingo Bolger-Baggins), which is highly delightful to me. He eventually altered the name, obviously, to Frodo.
She attends the Oxonmoots frequently.
She has a BA degree in English and worked as a social worker. (Hence why she isn’t so “famous” as her older brother.)
She is a member of the Tolkien Society (last I checked, honorary VP).
As Tolkien’s only daughter, Priscilla has noted her father’s “complete belief in higher education for girls; never in my early life or since did I feel that any difference was made between me and my brothers, so far as our educational needs and opportunities were concerned.” [x]
She typed out some of the early chapters of Lord of the Rings for her father (around the age of 14).
She is one of the founding members of the Tolkien Trust, along with her three brothers.
My point isn’t to devalue Christopher at all, but rather to highlight that while the brothers are important to Tolkien’s works, so was his daughter and for some reason, at least among the American fandom, I almost always see Christopher the only mentioned surviving Tolkien when Priscilla is still alive and active. I get why we don’t have search results for John Francis Reuel Tolkien (his name is so similar to JRR’s, obviously), but you do have results for Michael Tolkien (one tagged post, it seems, but still far more than Priscilla has; she doesn’t even have general Tolkien posts pop up for her as her brothers do).
I’d also like to point out that while Christopher is no longer a board officer of the Tolkien Estate, his younger sister is. Just because she didn’t write the Histories doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about her father’s work.
Death By Catchphrase 