On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:29:03 -0400, Tweetie Bird
> wrote:

>On 10/26/2016 7:47 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> Actually when times were tough during WWII and years after people ate
>> cold Campbells pea soup straight from the can spread on white bread,
>> cold canned Heinz bean sandwiches too. Thing is back then Campbells
>> soups and Heinz beans cost less then 10¢, often three cans for 25¢.
>> For the longest time Campbells tomato soup was a nickle. Homeless
>> people would hang out at Horn & Hardart and eat the food left on
>> plates, washed down with cups of free hot water with ketchup mixed in.
>> A 1st class postage stamp cost 3¢.
>> These beans were very popular:
>> http://ontarioorchards.com/product/g...ans-16-oz-can/
>>
>I told my mom about this post and she reminded me that I had an uncle
>that would take cooked butterbeans, let them get cold, mash them up and
>make a sandwich using them and yellow onion slices.

People ate lots foods like that... butter was in short supply so some
spread bread with lard while others used chicken schmaltz. My
grandfather liked Russian black bread schmeared with chicken schmaltz
and sliced black turnip... they're very pungent so washed down with
vodka or slivovitz. He also enjoyed good caviar, during the '40s
caviar was plentiful and relatively inexpensive as were smoked/pickled
fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz
http://www.specialtyproduce.com/prod...Radish_752.php
https://food52.com/blog/10004-black-...raw-or-roasted