Cheri wrote:

> "l not -l" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > On 20-Jul-2015, Gregory Morrow > wrote:
> >
> >> So seeing Sheldon's garden pix got me all nostalgic about when I was a
> >> kid. A childhood memory was some of the food that my Midwestern small
> >> town grandparents routinely ate in the late 50's and into the 60's, some
> >> now seem a bit "old - fashioned" to me (but grandpa lived 1876 -> 1965!).
> >> Here are some:
> >>
> >> - ring baloney
> >>
> >> - ice milk
> >>
> >> - liver 'n onions
> >>
> >> - cornmeal mush
> >>
> >> - dried cod (came in a wooden box)
> >>
> >> - Hollywood Diet Bread
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone else?
> >
> > Pig's feet (NOT the pickled ones in a jar)
> > Jowl bacon
> > Okra
> > icicle radishes
>
> Bread spread with bacon grease and topped with onions to make a sandwich.


Ah, that makes me remember stuff that was free or almost free, and so considered something along the line of "poor food":

- morel mushrooms: you could get gunnysacks full of these if you knew where to pick them...

- catfish: growing up by the Mighty Mississippi, all you had to do was put out a line, and you'd get a bunch. There were fish markets down by the river where'd they keep catfish in big horse tanks for a week or so and feed them cornmeal in order to purge their impurities. Sturgeon, too, smoked sturgeon was really cheap...

- blackberries and raspberries would grow wild in thickets along the rural dirt roads, or in old abandoned cemeteries. You could get gallons...and there were patched of wild strawberries around, too.

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Best
Greg