What about FHB’s?
(family hold backs)
When you have visitors and not a lot of food, FHB is when you silently allow the guest to eat as much as they want while the family “holds back” deferring to the guest.
Deferring to others is almost a myth today.
Silently doing a favor for others is almost as big a myth as well.
It used to be called normal during hard times.
It is just honor and class.
I read this book a while back
Grandma’s wartime kitchen : World War II and the way we cooked / Joanne Lamb Hayes.
It was interesting to read why my grandmother made aspic (what the....?) and put rice in chili. They started it during the war and never quit doing it, despite living in an antebellum mansion.
Inspirational article.
I was 1925 so I had a trifecta. I spent part as a depression kid, part at a Last One kid and let me coin one, part as a First One. A kid who was in WW II. Now let me relate what that meant to a lot of us.
I was a NYC kid. I took a commercial course in HS because I had no way of ever going to college. A commercial diploma meant a job in the NYC commercial district. But something Feepers who forever bash the Government is they passed the greatest piece of legislation for America’s future - the BI Bill. This made possible thousands of engineers, doctors, accountants and yes lawyers. Perhaps your Dad was among them. The country grew to the best in the world.
Thanks for finding and posting this item!
I was born in ‘42, so can identify with all in the article.