ExperienceCounts

Our American Legion had a meeting of Just the officers, discussed canceling of all upcoming events for the near future since our governor has banned gathering of over ten people. Fundraising efforts are on hold.

An unnamed individual was bragging that his wife took a loaf of bread out of someone's grocery cart because none was on the shelf. STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! Then again, they are atheists, and they don't believe in God or karma.

Most of the baby boomers folks know how to make bread, biscuits, rolls, loaves. We can bake a cake, fix spaghetti, noodles, mac and cheese, pasta, even rice, and beans.

My dad made pan bread, and he didn't cook! (He'd be 86 if he was living!) Pan bread is liquid oil, milk or water, and self-rising flour stirred together and poured into a greased cake pan. The children loved it, and it pissed mom off that we'd rave over it. [Dad was head baker at a bakery.]

Dad would break it with his hands and pass chunks of the hot fresh bread to the kids. We'd smear butter and jam or honey over it and eat it with a glass of milk!

Hum, now that I think back, nothing else was on the menu. So, I think it was great that he made only having bread and milk for a meal fun for his kids!

Smedley_buzkill

Kids today can't even drive a straight shift.

EL Loc: Massachusetts

Sounds GREAT to me!!!

bggamers Loc: georgia

Home made bread has more flavor and no chemicals in it

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Or read cursive or tell time on an analog clock. It would be interesting to see them 'liberated' from home at 16 like some of us were. Roving bandit gangs anyone?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Actually it does have chemicals in it, salt, pepper and sugar are all chemicals, aren't they?

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

woodguru

We've got deer out back that are under new rules if groceries get to be a thing

bggamers Loc: georgia

Oh hush you know what I mean

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Of course I do, but needed to lighten up the discussion.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

We raised pigs and chickens...

I know how to make home-smoked sausage using the small intestine as a casing...

We made hogshead cheese and cracklin's...

We hade a spring garden and a fall garden...

I grow some good...er…tomatoes now!

Talk about a great emergency bartering chip!

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Yep. Bacon, hams and shoulders were salt cured and hung in the smoke house. Sausage, pork chops,
etc were fried up and canned in Mason jars. Nothing was wasted. Rendered our own lard. Didn't even know what olive, peanut or other oil was. Excess lard was used to make soap. Even the brain was cooked being scrambled with eggs. had to be cooked immediately since we had no refrigeration.

In the unlikely event you might not know what cracklins were. Attached to the intestines of the pigs were strings of fat. These were collected and fried. Otherwise known as 'chitlins' (chiterlins). And forget k*****g a beef steer or cow. Too valuable as a cash product to just eat. After all, we had pork, chicken, eggs, homemade butter, apples,peaches, grapes persimmons, paw-paws, all the garden stuff, lettuce, cabbage,peas, beans, corn, What more could you ask for? I was 12 when I had my first hamburger.(Trailways Bus Station in Elizabethtown, KY in 1947.

Tug484

My grandma used nearly the whole hog.
Remember chittlins and chittlin cornbread?

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Unable to last until 16, my family built a room for me behind the garage separate from the main house when I was 12.
It was Ok, my 5 younger sisters were in the main house.
Allowed me plenty of freedom.
I started taking out one of the cars at night,
pick up a few buddies and cruise around.
Somehow never caught.

billy a Loc: South Florida

Tomato seeds would be worth their weight in gold...