Subj : Grocery Getters
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Jan 23 2025 12:26:00
Hi Dave,
DD> I'm mastly a mongrel mix of English, Scots, and German. But
DD> All-American.
RH> And that's what makes cooking/eating so much fun across the country.
RH> The diversity of ethnic populations has made us much more culinarily
RH> richer than if we'd all had to keep to our own ethnic heritage's
RH> cooking/eating.
DD> I spent my grade school years in a small coal mining town with a lot
DD> of first and second generation immigrants. They were from the UK and
DD> Central Europe mostly. One of the kids I ran with had no vowels in
DD> nhis surname - 'Drnjvc' (pronounced Durn-a-vitch. Bv)=
RH> I had a doctor in AZ had the surname Dwlgosh. The W was pronounced like
RH> an E so some of the family changed the spelling to reflect that. Did
RH> you classmates bring pierogies and such like for their lunches? I would
RH> have gladly traded a pb&j for one of them. (G)
DD> We had a school lunch program even back in the late 40s. 1st grade in
DD> 1948 was the only year I got to carry my Roy Rogers lunch box.
Our school had a lunch program but my parents made us take a lunch
except for the pre Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Since there were 5 of us
kids, 99% of the sandwiches were pb&j on white bread. Before sandwich
bags came out, Mom would put a cookie on top of the sandwich, then wrap
the whole thing in wax paper. By lunch time, the cookie had absorbed a
lot of moisture from the bread and the bread had a big stale spot.
That's why I don't like peanut butter to this day. Oh, and I carried a
lunch box (had some generic cartoonish characters, my siblings got the
TV show lunch boxes) up until 7th grade, then switched to a brown paper
bag that we had to bring home every day. IIRC, one school year I made
the same bag last the whole year.
DD> I dunno what makes this especially "Coal Miners" but that's the
DD> title and it's on topic as well as beinf a "Burton". Bv)=
RH> I don't see anything that makes it especially Coal Miner's either,
RH> except maybe an inexpensive meal, affordable on a miner's pay.
DD> Well, besides the "Bohunks, Welsh, Britons, etc. There was a
DD> substantial Italian population. And some dynamite Italian restaurants.
DD> I was eating at one owned by one of my chilli cook friend (6 time
DD> in-a-row State Chilli Champion) and I'd ordered the special of the day
DD> rather than my usual of chilli-mac. It was almost tooth achingly
DD> sweet.
DD> When Don stopped at our table as he was doing the rounds of the
DD> customers I asked him about the "sweet". He said "Look around, you
DD> see all those old guineas? They're here for lunch must days and if I
DD> didn't add the
DD> sugo (sugar) they'd go somewhere else. You guys are here once a month.
DD> Which way would you go?"
DD> So, I went back to chilli mac when I go there.
I would too; I don't put any sugar in my sauce and don't like a sweet
sauce when I encounter one.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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