Nancy Young wrote:
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> It was a common enough practice since you can always find
>>> someone who has not-so-fond memories of sitting there. I
>>> wonder if it always went on or some of us just had Depression
>>> era parents who just didn't get not eating what you were given,
>>> and happy to have it.
>>
>> Heh. I can just picture Noah saying to one of his sons "Shem, you're
>> not leaving this table until you eat your millet!! We don't have
>> enough food on this Ark for you to be picky for 40 days."
>
> (laugh) There are children starving in the Mesopatamia, eat it!
>
> nancy

When I was young you heard about the starving children in Biafra.
(I didn't but friends of mine did.)

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?