"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 23/08/2014 11:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> "graham" > wrote in message
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>>> On 23/08/2014 10:10 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
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>>>>>> Yes. I read a lot of food history books earlier this year. At one
>>>>>> point in
>>>>>> time, everyone had servants unless they were truly poor. Women did
>>>>>> not know
>>>>>> how to cook because someone did it for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not in your case... not all that long ago most everyone was a common
>>>>> laborer, indentured to the landed... in your younger days you'd be my
>>>>> tavern wench... then when your youth departed and you began to
>>>>> constantly complain about everything you'd become a scullery peon.
>>>>
>>>> This wasn't in my time as I was born in 1959. This was prior to the
>>>> Great Depression.
>>> So you're not a student of history.
>>> Graham
>>
>> No. I just said that I was reading books about food history.
>
> HINT: The Great Depression was before 1959!
> Graham

Yes, I know. I just can't remember the exact years of this time frame and I
know if I post something wrong, I will get grief for it.