{"id":9405,"date":"2013-08-12T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:13:48","slug":"the-history-of-the-childrens-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-the-childrens-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of The Children\u2019s Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081213_0137_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michele Humes presented &#8220;a brief history of the children&#8217;s menu&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before 1919 children didn&#8217;t really eat at restaurants. These were meant for adults who could engage in &#8220;boozy grown-up fun&#8221; in a child free environment.<\/li>\n<li>Then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volstead_Act\">prohibition<\/a> happened and restaurants desperate to find a source of revenue that could replace alcohol started offering children&#8217;s menu to cater to a new class of customers.<\/li>\n<li>At the time a book by a pediatrician called &#8220;The Care and Feeding of Children&#8221;, was the seminal text about raising children. It stated that they should not be given &#8220;fresh fruits, nuts, or raisins in their rice pudding&#8221; and that items such as pastries, ham, bacon, tomato soup, or even lemonade were forbidden.<\/li>\n<li>These rules against\u2026good food seemed to have been laid down because the pediatrician behind the book &#8220;believed there was moral danger in sensual pleasure, and damnation in indulgence&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The popularity of the book meant that restaurants soon began to advertise their meals as being &#8220;approved&#8221; by pediatricians.<\/li>\n<li>Since then our views about raising children have become more enlightened but parents have become attached to the low prices on the children&#8217;s menus, while kids appreciate having the booklets that can also be used as clown masks or have cut out paper airplanes.<\/li>\n<li>Times may have changed but the bland and unhealthy food on children&#8217;s menus hasn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the hotels that pioneered the children&#8217;s menu, how it has evolved over the years, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2013\/08\/children_s_menu_history_how_prohibition_and_emmett_holt_gave_rise_to_kid.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2013\/08\/children_s_menu_history_how_prohibition_and_emmett_holt_gave_rise_to_kid.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Humes presented &#8220;a brief history of the children&#8217;s menu&#8221;: Before 1919 children didn&#8217;t really eat at restaurants. These were meant for adults who could engage in &#8220;boozy grown-up fun&#8221; in a child free environment. Then prohibition happened and restaurants desperate to find a source of revenue that could replace alcohol started offering children&#8217;s menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081213_0137_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12449,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/12449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}