I'm thoroughly convinced every Greatest Generation grandmother had this handwriting
Posted by AmandaMarsh@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 52 comments
This photo of a recipe card was in Disgusting Vintage Recipes, and I'm thoroughly convinced every Greatest Generation grandmother had this handwriting. My own (born 1918) could have written this card, although I don't think this particular one would have been in her repertoire. Did yours?
ashre9@reddit
Yes! If your grandmother went to school, she would have taken penmanship courses and there were very prescribed methods about the "right" way to write in cursive. Even if she didn't attend school, I assume she would have learned it from somewhere as it was so common.
sly-3@reddit
If she didn't have this handwriting, then she'd get a ruler across the knuckles.
Upset-Word151@reddit
I had to do a triple take to make sure it wasn’t my grandma’s
Geochic03@reddit
Same lol. I was just looking through her old recipe box too. I inherited it after she died. When she couldn't write anymore because of tremors my grandfather took over. He had very boxy print handwriting.
Bibblegead1412@reddit
Same!
ohio2az@reddit
That looks my mom's handwriting. R.I.P.
ConfidenceNo2598@reddit
Well they didn’t have pfp so her delicate penmanship was gonna have to do
Simple_Car_6181@reddit
cursive?
Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit
Looks like my boomer mom’s handwriting.
Peanut083@reddit
My grandma’s was a very awkward looking version of this. She was naturally a lefty, but went to school back in the day when lefties were forced to write right-handed. At least she was fortunate enough to go to a school where they just tied your left hand to the frame of your chair and didn’t go with the ‘cane the lefty out’ approach. But, yeah, her handwriting always had that ‘this wasn’t written with my dominant hand’ quality.
My stepdad, who is also a lefty seemed to have gotten lucky that he started school in an area that didn’t do stuff like this anymore. It seems that it was in the process of being phased out in my state of Australia by the mid-‘60s, but I’ve spoken with other people who were born in the same year as my stepdad and who were caned for writing with their left hand at school. So it seems to have depended on where you went to school as to whether they were forcing lefties to write right-handed for a while until it was completely phased out.
Silly_Lavishness7715@reddit
I'm sad that when it's time to sign their name on important papers post-2004 born kids have to print. Sad.
Mondoweft@reddit
Both my grandmother and aunt had this handwriting, as it was taught to all girls. My aunt used to forge notes so she could wag school, and it was never questioned.
HarpoWhatAboutMe@reddit
My dad was the greatest generation (he was 47 when I born) and he had beautiful penmanship, down to his signature. Made it easy to practice for all the field trip permission slips I signed. I even filled out my own free lunch application when I was in middle school. Meanwhile I had to help my newly married nephew add his wife and stepson to his insurance. Kids these days.
sator-2D-rotas@reddit
Yup, right down to the occasional word I need context clues to figure out. Though this one is missing certain letters (usually capital ones) that I have no idea where that cursive font originated.
afirelullaby@reddit
This is my nanna’s handwriting!
windowschick@reddit
Well, that is truly vile.
One gran was a lefty, and this would have been in her
repertoire, but the handwriting slant says other grandma, who definitely would not have made this.
11229988B@reddit
I legit have a grandma recipe index card right next to me and it sure as shit looks almost identical
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
TBH looks just like Silent Gen or Gen X as well so I don't quite get this.
TransCapybara@reddit
TBH that recipe does not sound that disgusting. Probably needs more shimp/crab to balance out the onion though. I'd also leave the bread out of the mix, and use the mixture as a spread for a seafood sandwich.
Hippopotamus_Critic@reddit
The bread is the defining feature that makes it disgusting though! It's kind of a plain, boring but perfectly fine seafood salad until you add an entire loaf of cubed buttered bread to it!
TransCapybara@reddit
Yeah, that’s true.
PMichaelB89@reddit
Cursive is almost a lost art. Penmanship in general is a dying art in the digital age.
ThePlayZoneAI@reddit
It’s crazy we don’t learn cursive and anymore, it’s actually faster if you get the hang of it. I used to write like 2.5x faster in cursive. I went to a preppy white kid primary school and they taught it to us then.
Then I moved and as teen my friends and even most teachers (particularly the younger ones) could not read it and I had to learn to write normally.
But Thank god for typing tho cuz writing by hand for more than 30 minutes kills the wrist especially cursive with all the swooping motions
chypie2@reddit
yep - but I've been doing genealogy lately and I tell you people around 1800 had some of those most gorgeous cursive I've ever seen. And it usually all looks about the same until you come across someone who just did not give 2 fucks.
SpaceCadetEdelman@reddit
Similar but my grandmas was tighter and more italic, so more difficult to read.
Accurate_Buy8538@reddit
Yep! Looks just like my Grammas writing, she is in her 90’s
erindizmo@reddit
That's incredibly close to my mom's handwriting, too, although she's an older boomer. ('47)
Stang1776@reddit
What i received the other day when I asked my mom for her beef and noodle recipe.
Stang1776@reddit
What i received the other day when I asked for her beef and noodle recipe.
Hot_Gas_8073@reddit
1928 had this handwriting
Helpful-Bag722@reddit
My grammas writing, she was born in 1918. When we were kids we would 'tease' her about her old fashioned handwriting but now I think it's beautiful ❤️
tlonreddit@reddit
The family fried okra recipe from 1927 is written exactly like this and kept in a fireproof safe and copied online.
phishmademedoit@reddit
My grandma has this exact writing. She was born in 43, so that's still greatest gen, right?
AmandaMarsh@reddit (OP)
Yep, tail end. Does that make her a Goomer?
Hippopotamus_Critic@reddit
The Greatest Generation were not the greatest cooks.
AmandaMarsh@reddit (OP)
There was a lot of make-do that carried on in practice thanks to the Great Depression
crapatthethriftstore@reddit
My husbands Grammy had small, long handwriting. She was the president of the university’s secretary for decades and it shows
firesticks@reddit
The only reason I know this isn’t my grandma’s is because it’s in English instead of French.
Low_Performance1258@reddit
Palmer Method!
lifeat24fps@reddit
Yes, because their hands were slapped and beaten until that was their handwriting.
Throw-away17465@reddit
Back when they still taught script in schools
catsoncrack420@reddit
Fun fact many people in Latin America in my mom's generation can NOT write regular non script (de-lettered sorta translates to what we call it)
maggie320@reddit
My grandma did and when her hands got so bad from arthritis and her vision also got bad she’d write in print. Her print looked like serial killer writing.
Elegant_Geologist972@reddit
Silent Generation too!
antiquedigital@reddit
Ha, my mom found a box of my grandma’s old recipe cards when I was over last weekend. Looks exactly like this.
MioMine78@reddit
My grandpa’s handwriting was more like this than my grandma’s.
Expensive-Day-3551@reddit
Not me thinking this was my grandmas recipe card
ambercrayon@reddit
Yes I have a box from my great grandmother that look exactly like this
Ok_Assistant_3682@reddit
I had this handwriting, once. One of the last to be taught it in elementary school, I imagine.
AgeNo9436@reddit
My older relatives would doodle penmanship practices on the pad of paper next to the phone. Little spirals and loops.
CaptinEmergency@reddit
How the hell did you get Grandmaster’s recipe card? I’d know her writing anywhere you thief.
TransCapybara@reddit
Yep, that looks like my mother's mom's handwriting.