On Wed 02 Jan 2008 11:53:53a, Nancy2 told us...

> 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
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>> >>> wacky, so did a lot of Americans in cities who couldn't get out to
>> >>> the
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>> >>> 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
>> mothe r's family lost a few thousand in one of the banks, but most of
>> both families'
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>> 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
>> i n ours or any relative's house except for that which was home canned.
>> *Mea ts 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."
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> To this day, sometimes I just crave an Oscar Mayer baloney sandwich on
> white bread. LOL.
>
> N.
>

For some reason my mom would by liverwurst or pickle loaf or olive loaf,
but never bologney, and I never acquired a taste for it. I liked the
pickle and olive loaf as a kid. Once om a while I get a craving for that
on white bread with Miracle Whip. Liverwurst I have always loved.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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Date: Wednesday, 01(I)/02(II)/08(MMVIII)
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