Really. My Dad, who was part of "the Greatest Generation" somehow survived over twenty years of military service, and after retirement work as an engineer..
He and his siblings used to take lard sandwiches for their lunch. How could America win a world war without those heroes growing up eating chicken nuggets?
We were poor. My grandfather used to pour me a cup of coffee with sugar and cream in in every morning with breakfast. We went home for lunch which was whatever was leftover from dinner the night before. We had fried potatot or bean sandwiches. If none of that was left we had mayonnaise or mustard sandwiches.
I have no idea how we survived.
Really. My Dad, who was part of “the Greatest Generation” somehow survived over twenty years of military service, and after retirement work as an engineer..
He and his siblings used to take lard sandwiches for their lunch.
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Wife #2 was 8th of 9 kids. Their dad was a tenant farmer in rural Arkansas in the late ‘30s until his death in early ‘50s. All the kids worked at hoeing and picking cotton, planting and digging vegetables, caring for mules, pigs and chickens. ...When I attended large family gatherings up there, I heard many stories about how often the only lunch the kids had to take to school would be a large raw turnip, large raw onion or a raw potato.