"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:07 -0600, DreadfulBitch
> > wrote:
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>> On 2/4/2014 7:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> > Used to be in this country, canned soup was considered the food of the
>> > poor because you could get it for really cheap or sometimes free if you
>> > had coupons, particularly if your store doubled or tripled those
>> > coupons. Didn't apply to all soups. Was usually the Campbell's tomato,
>> > chicken and noodle and cream of mushroom. I suspect that a lot of
>> > recipes involved using the cream of mushroom soup only because people
>> > could get it so cheap and likely had tons of it in the house.
>>
>> Uhh...um...wha? On what planet were you raised? Growing up we were
>> hardly poor but we always had soup in the house for this, that or the
>> other thing.
>
> Julie is young and doesn't have the same life experience that you and
> I do. My grandmother was a county Home Extension Agent. Part of her
> job was to give cooking demonstrations and I remember she cooked pork
> chops at home with a can of mushroom soup that was used as gravy.

I'm 54. I could be an AARP member. I'm not young. We rarely ever ate
gravy at home. If we had meat it was usually plain. My mom did make
creamed chipped beef on toast and hamburger gravy. We had turkey gravy if
we had Thanksgiving at home. Often it came in the foil pan with the frozen
turkey roll in it. Our pork chops were pan fried until they came out with
Shake and Bake. Yes, pork chops can be dry. Because mom cooked them for too
long!

My one grandma was a secretary before I knew her. She didn't work when I
did know her. Other grandma had a farm but when my grandpa owned the
restaurant, she cooked in it. When I knew here, she did as much as she
could to avoid cooking, even if that meant cooking enough of one thing and
forcing us to eat it all week. She did bake and make candy though as those
were her preferred foods.