Were you at Woodstock? What did you eat?

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. I know it introduced the world to granola as we know it, but what else did they eat? Surely, in the thousands of members of this group, we have someone who was there.

This morning on NPR they discussed the food available at Woodstock - it was hot dogs!

Jyoti

LAZ wrote:what else did they eat?

Brown something or other in spite of many warnings not to eat it

My aunt was at Woodstock. I understand from her that food was scarce. Her mother, though, thinking that they were going camping for the weekend (which I guess, in essence, they were), packed her and her friend a cooler stocked with steaks, sandwiches, hot dogs, etc. They ate well, and ended sharing the food with many hungry, marooned concertgoers.

Sadly, I was only 6, too young to much enjoy the summer of love, and my parents just a bit too old to pick up and go. Now, I'm feeling like I'm too old for Lollapalooza.

For a nice article on the insanity of trying to plan to feed 200,000, let alone the 400,000 that showed up, see this article at Food & Think, The Smithsonian Institution's food blog.

JoelF wrote:Sadly, I was only 6, too young to much enjoy the summer of love, and my parents just a bit too old to pick up and go.

"Sadly..." You think that's sadly! Ha. HA! I'll see your "sadly" and raise you one "sadlier"; hell, I'll raise you one "sadliest of all"!

I was 17, lived down the road a few hours (well, maybe about six hours), and I not only didn't go, I didn't have any inclination to do so. Let's see, this would have been the summer before my senior year of high school and I was too...preoccupied with my own summer of no love. Ah, misspent youth....

Thanks for the link, Joel.

The Summer of Love was actually 1967...in San Francisco. Elsewhere, some of the worst race riots of the period occurred that summer. I was a little kid, but I lived in Detroit at the time, and I do remember the riot there.

I was also too young for Woodstock, but a friend of mine, who was 14 at the time and lived near the site, turned down the chance to accompany his news reporter parents to the festival in order to go to Disneyland.

I went to Woodstock with my girlfriend and a buddy who had a car (Camero) that was in good enough shape to make the drive. Although we brought lots of provisions, food was not among them. We were "camped out" on the golf course of a local country club. They weren't exactly happy to have us (and a few thousand of our best friends) trashing their golf course turf, but by Saturday night, the country club people showed some love and provided us with cheeseburgers, which was the only food I remember eating the entire time I was there. That doesn't mean I didn't eat something else, I just don't remember doing so.

I was about -2 months old, so my food was the usual mixed w/ cigarette smoke and scotch. My pre-baby boom parents were far too square for Woodstock

stevez wrote:cheeseburgers, which was the only food I remember eating the entire time I was there. That doesn't mean I didn't eat something else, I just don't remember doing so.

So I guess it's true, what they say: if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there....

Ah LAZ! Tnx for filling in The Summer of Love. I didn't make Woodstock: I was in grad skule at UC Davis, 3 weeks from my PhD qualifying exams. I was thereby BIZZY (rhymes with "dizzy").

But I sure as hell was there for the Summer of Love: finishing my MA at San Francisco State, living in a sub-terranean flat in the Fillmore, about 2 blocks from the Fillmore Aud, to which I had free entry because I'd gone to college (Santa Clara) with Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner was one of my college roomate's best friends, and, last but not least, I taught at Woodrow Wilson High School with Marty Balin's sister, all of which meant that much of my free time was spent at various rock events. When I look back now, I can NOT understand how I made it out of SF alive.

But man! was that ever fun. Yee-hah.

Sure wish I'd been able to get to Woodstock, tho'.

Geo