On Jan 2, 2:22*am, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
> On Tue 01 Jan 2008 10:37:21p, Blinky the Shark told us...
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> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> >> On Tue 01 Jan 2008 05:58:49p, George Shirley told us...
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> >>> I can also tell that many of you aren't very old. If it hadn't been
> >>> for SPAM, a non-rationed meat, lots of folks would have been
> >>> vegetarians during WWII. Where do you think the Monty Python skit
> >>> about "SPAM" came from. The Brits ate so much of it they went a little
> >>> wacky, so did a lot of Americans in cities who couldn't get out to the
> >>> country and scrounge some decent meat. Hell, I still like SPAM on
> >>> occasion.
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> >>> George
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> >> I was born in January, 1945, so was not really negatively affected by
> >> WWII. *
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> > I was born in 1947, but the memories, habits and effects of WWII didn't
> > just disappear in the summer of 1945. *I'm sure at least part of the
> > reason we ate SPAM when I was a boy was the influence of WWII (and
> > perhaps also the Depression)...
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> I'm sure you're right about that. *I know from family stories that they
> were also relatively unaffected by the Depression. *I know that my mother's
> family lost a few thousand in one of the banks, but most of both families'
> money was tied up in property that was paid for and wasn't lost.
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> >> Both my parents' families at that time were farming people, so food
> >> wasn't really an issue for them.
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> > ...so I'd guess that *this* - your farmer lineage - was a bigger factor
> > in your nonSPAMminess back then in the immediate shadow of WWII.
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> I'm sure that's also true. *I don't remember seeing "cans" of anything in
> ours or any relative's house except for that which was home canned. *Meats
> were fresh from the farm.
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> * * * * * * * Wayne Boatwright
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Me, too, Wayne. She only bought at the store, what we couldn't grow,
like oranges. (This was in the 40s.) My mom wouldn't ever buy
commercial lunch meat because it was - to her - "junk."

To this day, sometimes I just crave an Oscar Mayer baloney sandwich on
white bread. LOL.

N.