Great Depression Meals

Toast spread with butter, sprinkled with brown sugar, and put under a broiler for a little while was another fondly remembered childhood snack.
 
Tousi said:
But you probably weren't on a farm although I will admit I'm wondering where we got the chipped beef which is wafer thin beef...kinda wavy like bacon, reddish and dried. I'm thinking my folks must have bought it at the grocery store....maybe in frozen packets....
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They weren't gopher????? :lol:
 
Bottesini said:
When I was a little kid, creamed chipped beef came in Banquet Boil In bags. It went in a sauce pan of water on the stove and then was just poured over toast.

I actually loved that stuff. I think part of the reason was my obsession with individually packaged foods, but it still tasted great to me as a child.
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Aha! There''s my answer to Beo, cleared up a bit. Thanks, Botti! Can one still get that?
 
Tousi said:
Aha! There''s my answer to Beo, cleared up a bit. Thanks, Botti! Can one still get that?
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Just looked it up, and it comes up under "Foods of the 70's" so chances are good it's just a fond memory.
 
My mom told me that during the Depression in the Brooklyn area, they would crush cockroaches and mix them with water for headache remedies. :hmm:
 
I don't know why people eat their scrambled eggs with ketchup either! Hash brown is understandable... But for eggs and french toast???
 
How about scrapple? My dad loved that while he was growing up in a small farming community in Oregon. In fact, I think that was a recipe of an idea that lead to....spam!

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I am really surprised at some of the stuff on that list. I've eaten a lot of that as just my regular everyday food, lol. I guess I thought during the depression everyone ate horrible food like nothing but gruel and old potatoes or something. With the kind of food listed on that page I may have barely noticed I was in a depression!
 
mbrek said:
That makes you drool?!?!?!

The smell alone makes me want to leave the house for 24 hours.
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Which is why I was always happy when my parents went out for dinner on St Patrick's day. :o
 
kokonut said:
How about scrapple? My dad loved that while he was growing up in a small farming community in Oregon. In fact, I think that was a recipe of an idea that lead to....spam!

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Spam came into being in 1937, well after the Great Depression.
 
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