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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2020-11-04 8:25 a.m., songbird wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 11:28:21 AM UTC-6, wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10:11:02 AM UTC-6, Gary wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A chicken or pork chop sandwich that contained the bone
>>>>>>> would be an odd sandwich, imo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bone in. You just ate around it. Damned good eating too. I have no
>>>>>> idea if that was typical of soul food or just the way she slapped a hunk
>>>>>> of meat between bread as a holder. This was in the late 1960s.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds to me like she was just too lazy to remove the bone.
>>>>>
>>>> You'd be amazed to find out a LOT of people dearly love to gnaw and
>>>> suck on the bones, especially pork chops.
>>>
>>> Count me among them. Pork chops and beef T-Bone/Porterhouse are
>>> favorites. Something you never see anymore, at least in these parts, is
>>> bone-in sirloin steaks. Those had great bones for gnawing.
>>
>> I like gnawing on a bone too but not inbetween 2 slices of
>> bread with maybe some mayo. No wonder the "older black guy"
>> gave Ed his lunch sandwiches.
>> It's odd and definitely not "soul food."
>>
>> A much better version would be to pull off some meat to
>> make a sandwich, then put the meaty bone in a separate
>> baggie to gnaw on.
>
> you must remember that "back in the day" they didn't
> have baggies. Grandma sent the kids to school with
> their sandwiches wrapped in newspaper and tied with
> string and woe to the kid that did not bring the string
> back home...

We had brown lunch bags in the 50s. We were more likely to take our
lunch in a lunch box.