"Puester" > wrote in message
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> Janet Bostwick wrote:
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>> My dad always worked at the polls as an election supervisor so he was
>> gone
>> all day. My mom and I stopped at the local butcher shop and the butcher
>> made up ham sandwiches on Wisconsin hard rolls for us to take home. We
>> also
>> got those little bottles of dairy orange drink and small bags of potato
>> chips. This was heaven. It was before fast food and eating out a lot.
>> The
>> butcher wasn't a deli business, but it was the best food ever. I keep
>> trying to make ham sandwiches taste as good as those did. So every once
>> in
>> a while we have ham sandwiches and potato chips.
>> Janet
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> Isn't it amazing how ordinarily mundane food, eaten under
> special circumstances, can become a feast that you remember
> for years?
>
> gloria p

Oh, yeah. I think that's what a lot of preparing food is all about--either
creating or re-creating memories.
Janet