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Peanut Butter Stuffed Onions

Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 12:00 MJA Uncategorized 37

Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression

Let’s bust one Great Depression myth right off the bat, courtesy of Megan McArdle: “even at the height of the Depression, when a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, most people were not on relief, and most were not suffering malnutrition.” Even if it wasn’t all hobos sharing beans on a garbage can lid, the American diet during the Great Depression did change dramatically, thanks to the rise of the refrigerator, and, of course, the prioritization of thrift.

37 Comments on Peanut Butter Stuffed Onions

  1. Our Grandparents (husband and I) lived on farms and ranches then. Nothing much changed for them since they were already growing, slaughtering, hunting their own food. They ate well with lots of meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit. What they didn’t grow or ‘get’ for themselves, the could barter with neighbors. Manufactured items and new clothing were hard to get…so they saved everything!!! every scrap, every nail, every whatsit….and repurposed.

    There was no “relief” money from the government either. You were on your own, relied on family and friends….as it always was.

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  5. I don’t care what they say SOS is still disgusting and putting peas in it makes it worse. I hate peas. The only thing worse was when my mon made creamed tuna on toast. Blecch and double blecch! She also made a zucchini casserole once which looked and smelled like barf. My daughter and I picked around it, it was horrible and my daughter threatened to kill me if I ever made that for dinner. My mom and dad and one of my uncles liked it but they were all old and didn’t have any taste buds left. And don’t even get me started on Chicken ala King, it looks like someone barfed on a plate. Or the pureed brussels sprouts they served to the residents of a state facility for the retarded that I worked at back in the 90’s, that was by far the worst.

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  8. It not a myth that times were tough. My grandmother got by thanks to the local grocer giving her credit which she paid back as best she could. My grandfather worked for the state but the hours were cut way back. Same with my other grandfather who was a train engineer. But at least they had something.

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  11. Read piece yesterday where a model in Las Vegas ate a pretzel with peanut butter filling, went into antephalactic(?) shock and is now a quadriplegic who can only move her eyes. Won a $30 million dollar settlement.

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  16. I was born waay after the TGD, but is it weird that I use butter containers and coffee cans like Tupperware? Anyone else do that? It’s so bad, I even save clean pastry boxes and reuse them for home baked stuff. 😂

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  20. @MJA
    Repurposing is an environmentally responsible thing to do. It saves money too!
    But I had to give up reusing my motor oil jugs for drinking water though. I kept getting the runs…

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  24. My grandfather used to scour the dump sites for sheet metal, make dustpans from it and sell them door-to-door.
    He and grandma, (and 5 kids), used to live in 10’x12’ shack and could only afford enough roof tar paper for half the shack.
    When it rained they all had to move to one side of the shack.

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  27. My parents were raised in the Depression so I was too. One tuna can was to feed 10. My mother taught us how to properly scrape the thinnest layer possible of margarine on toast. She saved the margarine wrappers and scraped them on toast to use every last bit. My father taught us how to use toilet paper navy style, one square at a time. He saved the dried up heels of bread loaves to make bread pudding.

    Ironically, my dad said that the 20’s were much worse for his family than the 30’s. They were poor farmers and they despised FDR. They were poor by circumstance. They weren’t stupid. Of the four brothers, 3 earned PhDs and one an MLS.

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  31. My great grandfather loved wilted lettuce and fried eggs for breakfast.

    Another family favorite was Ritz Mock Apple Pie. My mother would make when funds got low. It tasted pretty good. Haven’t had it for a long time.

    As for SOS, the only version I knew was not classic. My dad would use cooked hamburger meat instead of chipped beef, added to a buttery, garlic flavored white sauce placed on toasted white bread slices – Delicious!

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  32. Great Depression:

    I don’t think my grandparents suffered too much.

    Grandfather & Grandmother + 2 kids moved from Detroit to Chicago, he got a job as a janitor for a large apartment building. Their apartment was provided. I don’t know who he had to kill to get the job.

    By 1932 had made home movies, 8mm. The Christmas tree was loaded with presents. He had a new car.

    When he died someone draped a white sued tool apron on his coffin. Nobody knew who did it.

    Go figure.

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  37. In the 30’s the USDA would issue recipes for making baked goods using minimal ingredients. A family favorite was one called butterless, eggless, milkless cake which was a heavy brown cake loaded with raisins.

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