I remember how nothing got wasted. If you had a chicken one day you knew the carcasse would get everything edible removed from it and then boiled down to make stock. Anything left over got turned into something else and reappeared the next day. We where a big family and the dustbin was rarely full at the end of the week. Now we generate masses of landfill every week.


>My mother was born in 1927 in the sticks of NE Arkansas and grew up, as she put it, "working from can-see to can't-see" in the cotton patch. So, basically, very poor.
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>She had a tendency to over-buy things to the point when a friend was over and looked at the stuffed pantry and the extra pantry in the laundry room and said 'Your Mom grew up in the Depression, didn't she?"
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>>>>http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm
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>>>That was a different world, all right.
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>>>Both my parents were born in the UK in 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression. Rationing started in the UK in early 1940, both my parents were bombed out of their homes as young children during the war. They married and emigrated to Canada in 1955. Since rationing didn't fully end in the UK until 1954 (vs. 1947 in the US), until they emigrated they had spent basically their entire lives either in the Depression, WWII or under rationing.
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>>>Boomers and later generations don't have a clue - they think they're hard done by when they can only buy a 37" big-screen TV instead of a 50".
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>>Strangely my father in law told me he and his father travelled in Europe a few years after the war ended when there was still strict rationing in the UK and found food was much better than at home and not rationed.