Food of the Seventies, Metracal
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this was possibly a late 60's thing but also popular into the early 70's...a diet aid...predecessor to slim fast...every mom in the neighborhood drank metracal for breakfast and lunch...a canned meal...tasted like artificial maple was in it and came in chocolate and vanilla and they tasted the same....taste stayed with you for way too long
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Do I remember Metracal! I lost 30 lbs. the summer before I entered junior high drinking the stuff. And I thought it tasted great! The cans were only like 50 calories and they took it off the market because people were losing too much weight and not getting enough vitamins.
Haha, my mom liked this stuff too. She had just quit smoking. This was before people realized that it's a bad idea to try to live on 300 calories a day... After a few days of that your body would force you to go on a binge, negating the value of being on the Metracal diet.
A memory of my mother, circa 1965: At the dining room table, after a particularly wonderful, pleasurable meal, her Puritan side would rise up … she would put down her fork and shout “Tomorrow, Metracal!,” referring to some god-awful diet food we had seen advertised on our grainy black and white TV. But luckily, the cans of diet food never appeared… And so, I've googled Metracal in 2008 and find it really did exist!
Actually Metracal came out in the late 50's. I was in High School at the time. Many of the guys on the football and wrestling teams would drink it with lunch to 'bulk up'. I was on the Track and Cross Country teams - and had no desire to bulk up.
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