aemeijers wrote:
| "Dave" wrote in message
| ...
|| Lobster wrote:
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||| Owain wrote:
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|||| Lew Hartswick wrote:
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||||| I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
||||| youngster. :-)
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|||| We were too poor to have sugar bowl lids.
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||| Aye, us an' all - we used t'have to make do wi old jam-jar lids
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|| Lids? Sugar bowls? What was wrong with the paper bag that it came
|| in?
||
| You had sugar? We had go out back and pick berries to mash into our
| cereal, and squeeze into our coffee, if we wanted to sweeten them.
| Nothing like wrestling racoons in the half-light of dawn to get the
| blood flowing....

....and when the berries and paper bags had all been eaten, we boiled
the dishrag to make broth and added icebox scrapings for our soup...

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/