Farm1 wrote:
> "Chemo" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Jan 29, 3:33 pm, "Farm1" > wrote:
>> When we go off on longish haul car trips, we always take a basket.
>> Tehrmos,
>> cups, spoons, tea bags, instant coffee, sugar, biscuits (aka
>> 'cookies' elsewhere in the English speaking world), sandwiches, cold
>> water and milk. And sometimes treats like lollies (aka 'sweets' or
>> 'candy') or chips (aka 'crisps').
>>
>> This basket routine seems to be similarly done amongst other coutnry
>> people
>> we know but not something that city people seem to do. Does anyone
>> else do this?
>
> No. you are suffering from terminal uniqueness.
> ____________________________
> Nah! Other coutnry families do it too so we're hardly unique. It
> sure beats eating the kind or stuff available along the road but I
> don't know if it's something that only country people do.

It's not. I grew up doing this mainly because at some points during my
childhood we were somewhat poor. Odd thing because my dad had a very good
job but the company he worked for was known to cut hours and we just never
knew when this might happen. They were also notorious for layoffs which is
why I never applied for a job there even though my dad tried to get me to do
it.

So at times we went out to eat quite a lot and at other times we simply
could not. But my dad liked to take road trips. So on a Friday, my mom
would bake two meatloaves. One to eat then and one to eat cold, the next
day on white bread. I always had mine with "butter" which was really Blue
Bonnet margarine. My brother had Miracle Whip on his. Not sure what my
parents had but my dad likely had hot mustard. We also had apples or pears,
carrot and celery sticks and maybe some chips and cookies. My mom would
pack snacks too and that was usually pretzels or crackers. And lots of diet
soda. When I was a kid we had Shasta.

As a teen, my friends and I often did similar. One of the boys usually had
a pocket knife on him. We'd stop somewhere and get apples, cheese and
bread. And if we could manage it, a bottle of wine. Shhhh... Don't tell
my mom! We actually didn't get the wine too often but we did get it once.
Those kinds of meals are the best ones to me.