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Default One Thing I Forgot About Fancy Thanksgivings

On 11/23/2017 6:03 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
> My mom served tomato juice as an appetizer at a faculty dinner at our house (my dad was faculty)
> and my little brother blurted out, "Why do we have juice for supper??" Dead silence, and then
> some mild laughter from the guests and my parents. This would have been mid-fifties or so.
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Nancy2, I wish I knew what this signifies. Was it that they were living
in a poor economic situation which no one was supposed to acknowledge?
Out of the mouths of babes?

Jill