To: blam
Clara sure uses a lot of cooking oil. Was it not rationed during the depression? I know sugar and some other things was.
30 posted on
11/18/2011 8:05:50 PM PST by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
Not the Depression. World War II.
31 posted on
11/18/2011 8:06:28 PM PST by
Publius
To: GeronL
any grease from cooking was put in a coffee can and the stores bought it by the pound for the war effort...The whole country worked to defeat the nazi and japan...You would also grow victory gardens in the back yard...
I still have my old ration book someplace. There was one book for every member of the family...mine still had some stamps in it.
To: GeronL
I believe cooking oil came about after the depression, everyone used lard, and grease during those times. Corn oil was invented in 1910. But during the depression we did not have an effective distribution system. The barter system was alive and well back then. You paid the doc with a chicken. LOL
229 posted on
11/18/2011 10:52:21 PM PST by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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