Maybe get a pig or two (that ought to excite comment among the neighbors!) Increasingly, shoppers are finding bare shelves in the supermarkets. I was at the Walmart today, and there was very little in the way of deli meats, and not a lot of bacon, either.
Maybe Joe so admires FDR, that he wants to imitate him by presiding over (and prolonging) a Depression. In which case, I better start thinking along these lines:
Btw, I may be making fun of Biden, but I have nothing but boundless admiration for Clara. In fact, that dish looks pretty good.
The supply chain "issues" are showing up around the country, based on friends tell me. They certainly are here, although the impact has been temporary shortages of some items.
ReplyDeleteBut that's going to change, I'm sure. And not for the better.
Oddly enough, one of my neighbors has chickens (and this is a neighborhood where all the lots are 160 ft x 80 ft). For the eggs, mostly. They have a lot of kids.
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That poorman's meal looks good. My parents both went through the depression, so not wasting food, and eating what set before us, was high on their list.
I agree that the poorman's meal looks good. Easy to make, only three ingredients, and cheap. Think of the variations one could do: stewed tomatoes, pasta or rice, and hot dogs, for instance. One of my family's go-to was creamed tuna on toast. Mushroom soup, tuna, and toast. I am firmy convinced that mushroom soup is one of the greatest inventions along with the can it comes in.
DeleteWe grew up the same way, Jeff. Add the facts that my Dad was in the Navy, and as a low level enlisted man he didn't make much. We cleaned our plates because he saw the Chinese buy his ship's garbage. Probably for their pigs, but we were told about the starving kids in China.
A topic you raised further back: Who knew (not me) that BBC HQ is adorned with a p3do statue by a p3do artist? The same bunch who gave Jimmy Savile a career. In this case I'd approve the repulsive statue's removal:
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What does she mean "oil"? Motor oil? I'm a kitchen illiterate.
ReplyDeleteHot dogs are $15 each last time I looked.
Cooking oil. Wesson, etc.
ReplyDeleteHot dogs were about the cheapest cut of meat back in the Depression. Today. inflation is keeping the prices high.
Wonder what a hot dog costs at a ball park. The whole experience is made less enjoyable if there isn't a dog or two.
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ReplyDeleteI would have expected you to go into the chicken rustling business.
Stephen: Live chickens are too much fuss. Easier just to hijack a Purdue truck.
ReplyDeleteWonder what a hot dog costs at a ball park. The whole experience is made less enjoyable if there isn't a dog or two.
ReplyDeleteAin't that the truth. When I went to Tiger Stadium sometime in September of 1973 to watch a game with the Brewers (Mickey Lolich pitched a 2-1 victory, incidentally), I had a beer and a couple of hot dogs and remain convinced, to this day, that those were the tastiest hot dogs I ever had in my life.
I don't remember a lot about what we ate when I was a kid, except that there was plenty of fried chicken and steak (it was Texas, post WWII, beef was plentiful and cheap). Lots of potatoes in different form. And beans. Lots of beans, mostly pinto cooked in beef broth. There had to be other vegetables in there somewhere, but all I remember are my grandmother's god-awful tasteless peas, which she sometimes tried to liven up with pearl onions or shredded American cheese, and which I refused to eat. The women in my family didn't bake, so a rare sweet treat was a slice of bread slathered with butter and sprinkled with sugar.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have lots of sheep (now you could call many humans here that!) so lamb chops were the staple meal until the 1970s or so. Very British.
ReplyDeleteMy parents divorced and my dad was spotty on child support.
ReplyDeleteWe ate a lot of spaghetti and meatballs.
Big pot of sauce on Saturday, eat pisketti all week.
That was fine with 8-10 year old me, I didn't even notice it. My mom remarried and we ate good after that.
In college I lived cheap. A pot of meat and sausage tomato sauce or a pot of stew on Sunday and that's what I ate all week.
I tried chili one week. I made it to Tuesday and made spaghetti sauce.
Then I bought new drawers.
After burgers and fries, spaghetti is my favorite food.
ReplyDeleteI ran out of money one week when I was in college, and made do with peanut butter sandwiches every day. Got pretty sick of the stuff for a while, although I eventually recovered my fondness for it.
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