On 11 Nov 2007 23:24:12 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
wrote:

>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.


I remember that my aunts (4 old maids who lived in the family home)
used a tin can for chopping cabbage for cole slaw. I still have the
wooden bowl they used, but not the can.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
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