HIST 840
Syllabus
Weekly discussion materials
Some historic menus
Week 10: Age and Gender
Readings:
Reay Tannahill, Food in History, pp. 224-229 (Chap. 16: “Food for the Traveller”)
Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner, pp. 39-56 (“Learning to Behave: Bringing Children Up;” plus notes on pp. 361-2), 272-84 (“Feeding, Feasts, and Females,” plus notes on pp. 372-3)
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, ¡Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), pp. 145-150.
Jane Dusselier, “Bonbons, Lemon Drops, and Oh Henry! Bars: Candy, Consumer Culture, and the Construction of Gender, 1895-1920,” in Sherrie A. Inness, ed., Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), pp. 13-49.
Chitrita Banerji, “What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat,” Granta, 52 (Winter, 1995), 163-71
Confectioner’s advertisement, Charlestown, Mass. (1859): “From 10 to 25 per ct. less than Boston prices.”
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/candy-ads
Lowney’s Chocolates (1901): note that the model holds the chocolate with a tiny pair of serving tongs
https://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/ads/foodandbev/candyandtreats/Lowney_s+Chocolates+-1901A.jpg.html
Lowney’s chocolate box with similar image (1907):
https://images-cdn.auctionmobility.com/is3/auctionmobility-static/LWmm-1-K0I0//118-1.jpg?maxwidth=1000&maxheight=1000
Sweet’s Society Chocolates (1908): “It costs no more to buy Sweet’s Society Chocolates than it does to buy the inferior kinds.”
Supreme Pernot (French, 1903): “Le meilleur des desserts fins.” (“The best of fine desserts.”)
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/ayh574vtn4ts2w.jpg
Chiclets Chewing Gum (1910): “That dainty, mint covered, candy coated chewing gum”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/txrwzaed3cvqys.jpg
Adams California Fruit Chewing Gum (1910) with endorsement by “Ruth Roland”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/a96uu1hdaxbxk5.jpg
Colgan’s chewing gum (early 20th century): “Easily carried in vest pocket or handbag.”
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/xFamily%20Pix/00whatcouldhave003.jpg
also:
http://eventized.blogspot.com/2013/03/colgans-mint-or-violet-chips.html
Necco Wafers (New England Candy Co., 1917): “. . . perfect accompaniments to the afternoon tea, the children’s party or the more formal occasions.”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/wz2pyxhk3y7m4o.jpg
Nut Tootsie Rolls (1917): “Made clean — kept clean — wrapped dustproof.”
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7a/4a/9c/7a4a9c9cff3c8880e7fa1ba0b2af16d8.jpg
German WWI candy poster: “Ausdauer Kraft und Energie” (“Endurance, strength, and energy”)
http://web.viu.ca/davies/H482.WWI/poster.German.ad.candy.soldier.jpg
U-All-No Pocket Mints, 1917, with image of biplanes: “chuck full of minty daintiness”
http://c590298.r98.cf2.rackcdn.com/SEP4_008.JPG
Tootsie Roll celebrates the return of US troops from WWI, 1918: “When the boys come home — The greatest deserve the best.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20150723015537/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Tootsie_Rolls.jpg
Bryn Mawr Chocolates (1918): “From the dainty packaging to the delicious chocolates themselves, richness and quality are obvious”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/t3qgw138t8o3tb.jpg
Milady Chocolates (Milwaukee, 1919): “Every Piece a Sweet Surprise.”
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rgPcQ8lZL._SL500_SS500_.jpg
http://img3.etsystatic.com/000/0/5317736/il_570xN.313332543.jpg
Huyler’s bonbons (c. early 1920s): “At the seashore — the mountains — everywhere — buy Huyler’s”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/k45go3wuya6s7t.jpg
Baby Ruth ad (c. 1920s; note varsity cheerleader theme): “Rich in DEXTROSE, the sugar your body used directly for ENERGY”
http://mitziscollectibles.typepad.com/.a/6a011168ca5559970c0120a66ab38e970b-pi
Curtiss Candy Co., Chicago (Butterfinger, etc.; c. 1920s): “Step out with vigor!”
http://mitziscollectibles.typepad.com/.a/6a011168ca5559970c0128756ba611970c-pi
Oh Henry candy bar (1926): “Why that’s what the pocket on a golf bag is for . . Oh Henry!”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/1ifbpdazwgfnh3.jpg
Baby Ruth candy bar (1929), endorsed by Edwin J. Manley: “Just the thing for a swimmer!”
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/92v05jdj7ly87g.jpg
Videos:
“I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow, from “Marie Antoinette,” (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2006, 2:45 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PcMZJMdqU
“I Love Lucy” clip: After Ricky and Fred get upset about the girls’ spending, Lucy and Ethel go to work in a candy factory while
their husbands do the housework. (US, 1950s, 2:02 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI
Rothchild’s candy commercial (0:29 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb3jAtSzSrs
Rolo candy commercial (late 1960s – early 1970s? 0:34 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJ700_V7eI
Milk Tray chocolates commercials (UK, 1980s, each 0:31 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pg1zpNgB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4d1PzPOOQ
Indian ad for Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate bars (1990s? 0:42 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn7YHmGhgkw
Britney Spears Japanese Suki candy commercial (1999; 0:37 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TESosyjCKME
Australian Snickers commercial “Hungry Builders” (2014; 1:19 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqgjTZQiySw