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This Is What People Ate When They Had No Money During The Depression
TBI ^ | 11-18-2011 | Vivian Giang

Posted on 11/18/2011 7:47:54 PM PST by blam

This Is What People Ate When They Had No Money During The Depression

Vivian Giang
Nov. 18, 2011, 12:25 PM

Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

If you've ever visited anyone's house for dinner and a big, sloppy "secret family recipe" dish is flopped down in front of you, chances are high that the messy goodness could have originated from the Depression era.

Families were taught to creatively stretch out their food budgets and toast, potatoes and flour seem to be the popular, inexpensive ingredients. Expensive meat was typically eaten only once a week.

Some foods were invented during the Depression, such as spam, Ritz crackers, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Kraft macaroni and cheese, according to livinghistoryfarm.org.

We've compiled some simple, easy recipes from 90-something Clara who shares her childhood dining memories during hard times. They may help you save money during our own Recession.

Click here to see what people ate>

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cookery; depression; egginanest; food; recession; recipes
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To: reformedliberal; bgill

Check out this map:

http://popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html


481 posted on 11/20/2011 12:24:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: reformedliberal; bgill

Here’s another fun list of what words people use for the same thing.

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html


482 posted on 11/20/2011 12:41:07 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: bgill

Being in the desert I think we are fairly safe from the Green Acres crowd.

Not too long ago a city feller passing through was trying to visit with me. He asked me if we had birds and insects here, when I informed him yes we have all kinds of birds and insects here he said he didn’t expect to see any living creatures here since it was desert. He could not figure out how they could exist without water. Mind you we don’t even live in full desert as in all sand or sand and cactus- we are in high desert with tall grass, yuccas, mesquite- that type of vegetation. I was speechless- this yahoo doesn’t seem to know there are critters everywhere, even in the absolute desert...I tried to explain to him that there was water here, and we do get rainfall he seemed skeptical since he didn’t see lakes and streams.

That’s ok, folks like him won’t be coming here expecting to live off the land; though they easily could if they had a clue.


483 posted on 11/20/2011 2:40:49 PM PST by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Tammy8
Not too long ago a city feller passing through was trying to visit with me. He asked me if we had birds and insects here, when I informed him yes we have all kinds of birds and insects here he said he didn’t expect to see any living creatures here since it was desert. He could not figure out how they could exist without water.

City people are a source of amazing confused thinking.

I once had a couple of city women INSIST that since mules were sterile they were also asexual. They could not accept that mules come in male and female. These were supposedly educated people.
484 posted on 11/20/2011 3:22:37 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: Tammy8

Poor thing will last about 3 days if his iPhone goes out.


485 posted on 11/20/2011 4:44:14 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

;)


486 posted on 11/20/2011 5:00:52 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Nepeta

Oh the stories I could tell about city people out of their element. What amazes me is most don’t have any idea what they don’t know and act like country folks are so stupid.

Just today dealt with one at work that had no idea you couldn’t stack cardboard boxes in the hot water heater room when the hot water heater is propane. That room has barely the legal clearance and he filled that clearance with cardboard boxes- some had shredded paper in them. The boxes were less than 4 inches from the flame- which was open because another idiot left the cover off. Lucky I found out what he did before the building burned down. He said he thought the hot water heater room was a storage room. I hate to admit this guy is LEO and of course is armed. Scary thought. I was so mad at the stupidity while we were moving the boxes and his supervisor was defending him- “oh he probably just didn’t know” WHAT- didn’t know you can’t put boxes next to an open flame? Are you kidding me?

Folks these are the people that some are worried will come to the boonies and take our food and such when things fall apart. I think there will be more that just won’t make it at all if they have to do any thinking on their own.


487 posted on 11/20/2011 5:43:11 PM PST by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: ryderann

Are you a native?
It is so interesting to talk with my neighbor. She learned, and taught her eight children, how to be self reliant and sufficient. She commented to me just last wk that her grandchildren and great grandchildren live in a different world with computers, smart phones and the like. I can even see a difference in the mtns since we moved here in ‘88.
Thanks for your info. I’ll pass it on to my neighbor.


488 posted on 11/20/2011 5:51:36 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: ryderann

I have a book on Medicinal Plants and it said chickweed is used to curb obesity. I’m gonna use it tomorrow! LOL


489 posted on 11/20/2011 5:56:31 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: ncpatriot

I’m in the Sams Gap area. Came here from Miami in 1981...30 years ago. Several of the old-timey mountain folks took a shine to me and taught me “living-skills”. My sophisticated city relatives think I’m nuts, but they’ll be knocking on my door when the bottom drops out.


490 posted on 11/20/2011 6:05:11 PM PST by ryderann
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To: tiki

Thanks for telling us about your mother and the Ritz crackers. Glad the store owners understood.


491 posted on 11/20/2011 6:19:45 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: bgill
Cracklings

Lay out the chicken skins on a sprayed jelly roll pan or a baking pan (not an edgeless cookie sheet because of the grease that renders out). Sprinkle on whatever seasonings you like. Bake at 400. After about 10 minutes keep checking them. Some pieces crisp up faster than others so take those out and leave in the others. Drain them on a rack or paper towels.

Thanks, I've heard of cracklings but never knew what they were. I learned something new. I like pork skins and love crispy skin on a piece of chicken so I probably would really like cracklings. They sell pork skins but I have never seen cracklings being sold. Maybe down south they sell them but not here up north, at least that I know of.

492 posted on 11/20/2011 8:08:55 PM PST by Bellflower (Judas Iscariot, first democrat, robber, held the money bag, claimed to care for poor: John 12:4-6)
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WTSHTF reference BTTT


493 posted on 11/21/2011 3:24:56 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: P-Marlowe
You can grow marijuana with grow lights in your garage

You really were a Jesus Freak, weren't you?

LOL!

494 posted on 11/21/2011 7:57:31 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: blam

PINGing your thread, seems timely to do so.


495 posted on 11/05/2012 4:38:32 AM PST by MomwithHope (Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
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