We called SOS, Dried Beef Gravy, butter, flour and milk
then dried beef and sliced boiled egg simmered and
served over saltines. Subsitute peas and tuna and you have
Tuna Pea wiggle.
I remember my mother ironing Christmas wrapping paper
for the next year.
Dad didn’t like potatos or cabbage, boiled was all they ate
while in a German POW camp.
I should mention my comment above was from the 1970s
Yes, to the ironing of Christmas paper. Washed out plastic baggies and foil to reuse. I still feel a pang of guilt when I throw those out but that’s one thing I refuse to reuse now days.
I still have flour sack dish towels. They’re the best. The older they get, the softer they get. I remember having to wear flour sack dresses to school. The teachers probably knew what they were but thankfully the other students didn’t know.