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> On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 12:51:09 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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>> On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:30:36 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
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>> > You get all your convoluted facts from Wiki obviously. I've been eating
>> > potato skins for at least 70 years, all kinds, as have generations of
>> > my
>> > family before me, but hey...I will put on Wiki that peeled potatoes
>> > will
>> > kill you, especially if mixed with Crystal Palace and you can cite it
>> > as
>> > fact, moron.
>> >
>> > Cheri
>> >
>> I remember my mother telling a story about someone she and my dad knew
>> during
>> the Depression. A husband and wife just as close to being destitute as
>> you
>> can get and they also had 3 or 4 children and yes, he had a job. But
>> many
>> jobs during that time only paid a dollar a day. The main thing and about
>> the only thing they had to eat for many weeks were potatoes and not many
>> of
>> them. The cooked potatoes were for the children and he'd take the potato
>> peelings for his lunch every day. They survived, but just barely.
>>
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>> Sounds about right for some during those times. My cousin talked about
>> how
>> during 1920's, he would go downriver to a meat plant because the river
>> being
>> cold would congeal the fat from the runoff, which he collected for his
>> mother to cook with, he said he was often hungry and would go over to my
>> grandma's for something extra.
>>
>> Cheri
>>
> My mother's oldest brother sent her a 5 gallon 'lard stand' during the
> Depression and she said she thought she had died and gone to heaven she
> was so thrilled to get it.



Hard to imagine what those that went before dealt with.

Cheri