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Dinner Before the Internet: Her Salad Bowl Was Never Out for Delivery

Vintage dinner footage from the Internet Archive. The whole segment, as it aired. Public-domain films from the archive, roasted by the desk.

On air
Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock
Aired
on BBN Originals
Length
0:19
“She passed it with her hand. It arrived.”
Hank Ledger, BBN

Footage

  • 1940S DINNER TABLE SCENE: Christy Associates, Inc. · Public domain · Internet Archive · source

Public domain or freely licensed footage, used under its licence and credited as it asks. BBN never airs the actual viral video from social media.

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Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Hank LedgerHere's a dinner from before the internet, and I remember all of it. Roll it.

  2. Vera BullockLook at this, the couple sits down and she passes a bowl of greens. Today that bowl would be out for delivery, and she'd be sitting right there.

  3. Hank LedgerShe passed it with her hand. It arrived.

  4. Vera BullockWatch this, she turns to talk to him. No phone on the table, so no group chat to carry the conversation.

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