For all FReepers: Read Reminisce magazine. They have a whole section devoted to what people ate in the “good old days”. One man wrote about how he took lard sandwiches to school during the Depression. He was so ashamed because he could never “trade” lunch with the other kids, lest they find out how poor he was.
***He was so ashamed because he could never “trade” lunch with the other kids, lest they find out how poor he was***
One of my supervisors joked about how he was so poor he took lard sand witches to his one room school. One day he decided he would steal someone’s lunch and have a feast!
He excused himself to go to the outhouse, and on the way out he lifted each lunch in the coatroom. He took the heaviest one he could find and ran deep into the East Texas woods. When he opened the sack, he found...... six hickory nuts and a hammer. ;-D