Re: Things we remember...
Joy Beeson
wrote:
> Those food-coloring capsules lasted long enough that my mother
> remembers using them in the late Thirties or early Forties.
*I* remember using them. The margarine came in a bag, and you pinched
it where the capsule was, then worked the sealed bag until the color
was even enough to suit you.
I don't recall that we ever thought of snipping a corner of the bag
and piping the margarine out, though.
Dad didn't like fake food (which I seem to have inherited, now that
I'm his age), and the rest of us didn't prefer margarine, so I didn't
see very many margarine bags.
Joy Beeson
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Dorothy J Heydt
Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:36:08 -0800, Kurt Busiek <ku...@busiek.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Those food-coloring capsules lasted long enough that my mother
>> remembers using them in the late Thirties or early Forties.
>
>*I* remember using them. The margarine came in a bag, and you pinched
>it where the capsule was, then worked the sealed bag until the color
>was even enough to suit you.
>
>I don't recall that we ever thought of snipping a corner of the bag
>and piping the margarine out, though.
My mother never did that. When the margarine was evenly colored,
she molded it back into an approximate brick shape, put it back
into the fridge till it was reasonably hard, and then cut the bag
off it.
>
>Dad didn't like fake food (which I seem to have inherited, now that
>I'm his age), and the rest of us didn't prefer margarine, so I didn't
>see very many margarine bags.
We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This
was right after WWII, my father was holding down a horrid little
teaching job in Santa Maria, and we didn't have money to spare
till his GI Bill funding came through and we moved to Palo Alto
so he could get his doctorate at Stanford.
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erilar
djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This
> was right after WWII
Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that
were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
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Dorothy J Heydt
erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
>In article <KsrJ6...@kithrup.com>,
> djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>
>> We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This
>> was right after WWII
>
>Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that
>were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
I don't. I was born six months after Pearl Harbor, and by the
time I was old enough to notice things like that, the war was
over.
Butch Malahide
> In article <KsrJ6B....@kithrup.com>,
> djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>
> > We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This
> > was right after WWII
>
> Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that
> were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
And those little red tokens, what were they for? meat?
David DeLaney
> djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>> We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This
>> was right after WWII
>
>Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that
>were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
And the crispy bacon we had before the war!
Dave "which war?" "ANY war!" DeLaney
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Dorothy J Heydt
Red points? Meat, and butter, and a few other things like that.
Here's some information:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1674.html
Only, glancing over it, I note one mistake: ration books were
issued to individuals, not families.
erilar
<a730e65c-a27e-4dfe...@l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Butch Malahide <fred....@gmail.com> wrote:
There were stamps for, if I remember correctly(I was in elementary
school) meat, possibly butter and sugar, and even shoes.