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Hawaiian Pineapple on Maui goes, too
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>Phred wrote:
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>> The interesting thing about all this is that the people living in
>> those days were perfectly happy doing these thing because they didn't
>> know any other way. (Come to that, there were even some advantages in
>> having a copper to boil the sheets etc. every Monday morning -- you
>> could chuck a tin of condensed milk in with the clothes and three
>> hours later you had superb caramel!
>
>Oh, yeah. I'm sure all they had to do was run around to the
>corner store for a can of condensed milk except the nearest store
>was probably 200 miles away and had never heard of canned anything.
Nope. When I was a kid with the wood-fired copper, the canned food
(including condensed milk, if you wanted it
was delivered by one or
other of the two "department stores" in town. A bloke came round on
his bike once a week to take orders and the stuff was delivered the
next day -- different days for the two stores. Fresh stuff like bread
and meat you had to get yourself; but fresh milk arrived each
afternoon in a horse and cart with pint and quart measuring cans (you
had to supply your own containers to get it though).
And, if you were 200 miles from town you had a store room as big as a
modern kitchen which you crammed full of canned stuff and bags of
flour, sugar, salt, and boxes of tea, before the end of the dry season
because you knew it would be six months before you could get back to
town once the rains started.
Cheers, Phred.
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