Oh pshaw, on Sun 11 Nov 2007 04:24:12p, Blinky the Shark meant to say...

> sf wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:42 -0500, "Felice" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>One of my kitchen standbys is a child's wooden building block, about a
>>>foot long, that I use for pounding cutlets. I "requisitioned" it one
>>>day when the children were tads and we were poor. The children are now
>>>pushing 50 and I've flattened a lot of cutlets in the intervening
>>>years.
>>
>> I used a plumbers mallet for that until my son grew up and stole it
>> from me to use on some handyman type job here at the house.
>
> I can remember my grandmother (who lived with us; we had a
> three-generation home) and my mother using a tin can to chop
> strawberries in a bowl. Both ends had been removed and one end still
> had the rounded "bead" on the edge; the other end - the cutting end -
> did not, so that it was sharp. This was a saved tool; it wasn't like
> whenever they needed to chop something they used a new can; it was kept
> a the drawer with other tools. I'm sure they used it for chopping other
> stuff; it's just strawberries that I specifically remember. The nature
> of product would've determined what was used for chopping; I can't
> imagine using that can for something like onions that would've required
> a real cutting edge. Cultural Timeline: They experienced the Great
> Depression; my memories of this tool are from the 1950s and 1960s.
>
>

My mom used a can like that to cut out biscuits. I think it had been a
soup can, based on the diameter.

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