Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try
powdered eggs...once.


When a gallon of whole milk climbed up to about 80 cents a gallon, my
mother tried to save by using the powdered junk. With three kids in
the house, we went through quite a bit of milk.

Eisboch


I was the only kid in the house and not much of a milk drinker, so a
quart lasted a week at home. Besides, in those days, in grammar school,
a container of milk was served each day, along with two graham crackers,
to every kid in public school. Whether they liked it or not. We kids who
could pay a few pennies a day for the milk did so, and it was free of
charge to kids who couldn't pay. I seem to recall a significant number
of foods supplied at cost to the public schools back then through
various farm subsidy programs. A complete hot lunch at junior high was
only 20 or 25 cents. That included an appetizer of soup, salad or jello,
a hot meal with some sort of beef, chicken or fish, two veggies and a
dessert. The fish was always served on Fridays, naturally, and typically
was fish sticks. Not bad, though. Still, a lot of kids brought their
lunch to school.

I wouldn't trade growing up then for growing up now. The world I grew up
in was much better than the one we have today. Well, except for "Duck
and Cover."

"John H" wrote in message
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Ketchup -- blech!

Tobasco -- yumm.

I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.
I tried it, liked it and still use it, but not to the extent he used it.

I recently bought some Tobasco sauce and mistakenly got the "Habanero"
version.

Whew!

Eisboch

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try powdered
eggs...once.


When a gallon of whole milk climbed up to about 80 cents a gallon, my
mother tried to save by using the powdered junk. With three kids in the
house, we went through quite a bit of milk.

Eisboch


I was the only kid in the house and not much of a milk drinker, so a quart
lasted a week at home. Besides, in those days, in grammar school, a
container of milk was served each day, along with two graham crackers, to
every kid in public school. Whether they liked it or not. We kids who
could pay a few pennies a day for the milk did so, and it was free of
charge to kids who couldn't pay. I seem to recall a significant number of
foods supplied at cost to the public schools back then through various
farm subsidy programs. A complete hot lunch at junior high was only 20 or
25 cents. That included an appetizer of soup, salad or jello, a hot meal
with some sort of beef, chicken or fish, two veggies and a dessert. The
fish was always served on Fridays, naturally, and typically was fish
sticks. Not bad, though. Still, a lot of kids brought their lunch to
school.

I wouldn't trade growing up then for growing up now. The world I grew up
in was much better than the one we have today. Well, except for "Duck and
Cover."




I recall costs of school lunches as being about the same. 25 cents for a
full meal and 3 cents for an extra milk.

Go to a modern high school cafeteria now. It would blow you away. Several
choices of hot meals or sandwiches, pizza, salad bars, and, in some towns, a
McDonald's.

Eisboch

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:12 GMT, Zombie of Woodstock
wrote:

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:55:22 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I used to like the powdered eggs. Pour enough ketchup on them and they were
not bad.

Love powdered eggs. You just can't explain the attraction to them for
some reason. More guys I know that served during our era have said
that to me more than once.

Some didn't care for them admittedly, but most couldn't get enough.

I also developed a taste for chipped beef on toast for some reason -
in particular if they used bacon drippings for the sauce.

I've noticed how my taste and - and stomach tolerance - has changed
quite a bit. Reminds me of when I was about 15 and doing some lawn
chores for a couple of grandmas. They insisted on feeding me a
breakfast of fried eggs, and they fried them in butter.
I had a hard time being polite and gulping them down. Thought they
were gross. That's because I was raised on eggs fried in bacon fat,
and had never had butter-fried.
Now I'm opposite, and only like them butter-fried.
Favorite meal used to be a rolled pork loin. With asparagus/spuds.
When I got in my thirties I couldn't take the pork loin. Made my
stomach queasy.
Ever get sick pigging out on something and never want it again?
When I was a kid I made a bunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
- my favorite food then - and got sick.
It still turns my stomach if I get a hint of peanut butter in my
jelly. But I still like each so long as they're not combined.
Sort of the same happened when I ate a jar of dill pickles. Couldn't
touch a dill pickle for about 15 years. Got over that aversion
though.

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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Ever get sick pigging out on something and never want it again?


Recent bad experience. I bought one of those small cooked chickens at the
supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I ate approx half for lunch, then put
the rest in the refrigerator. The next day, in the evening, I had a small
slice from the remainder. Two hours later I was sicker than I think I've
ever been and spent the night visiting the bathroom every 15 minutes. Sure
case of food poisoning. Anyone who has never experienced a case of severe
food poisoning can't understand how bad it is.

I have always been know for having the proverbial "cast iron stomach" and
very little will make me sick. I think I can count on my fingers the number
of times I've had to puke in my life.

But this experience made up for it. I thought I bought the farm for a
while.

Moral: Never, ever buy one of those pre-cooked chickens again.

Eisboch

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
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Ketchup -- blech!

Tobasco -- yumm.

I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.
I tried it, liked it and still use it, but not to the extent he used it.

I recently bought some Tobasco sauce and mistakenly got the "Habanero"
version.

Whew!

A buddy from Tennessee fed me fried eggs with sliced tomatoes once.
Good, but not enough to change my habits.
Eggs are best with bacon or pork sausage, and hash browns.
Pancakes if no hash browns available.
IMO of course.
I don't tell nobody what to eat.
One of my kids had to put hot sauce on everything.
Even celery.
That's over though. Acid reflux or something, so the doc told him to
lay off and he has.

--Vic

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:01:01 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I became addicted to Bug Juice.

Bug juice, powdered eggs, fried bologna, and mystery meat were among
the food items introduced to me by the Navy.
The bug juice tasted a bit different than the others.
I left them behind when I left the Navy behind.
The only thing the Navy addicted me to was a good shoe shine.
Still need my Kiwi, an old tooth brush, and a soft cotton cloth.
Don't do the spit shine though.
When bug juice showed up in the milk dispensers at breakfast, that
meant one thing to me. No more milk until replenishment.
And that meant my favorite meal, from the good kitchens of Kellogg's
and Elsie the cow, would disappear for a while.
Even a bowl full of frantically swimming weevils once didn't kill my
appetite for Kellogg's.
Three-four days out was as long as the milk lasted.
I don't recall Navy powdered milk for some reason. Might be because
time is merciful. Maybe the Navy was. Same effect.
I do recall my ma making that crap when money was tight.
All us kids hated it, so she gave up.

--Vic


I used to like the powdered eggs. Pour enough ketchup on them and they
were not bad.
Ditto on the milk. A little 315' DE didn't store a lot of milk.
Like you said, 3 or 4 days out and it was gone.

We had an old Coke machine though. Not the kind that dispenses cans or
bottles however.
It mixed syrup with carbonated water into a cup. 5 cents per cup until
it also ran out.
That usually happened right after an underway replenishment or refueling
when the Captain would order the corpsman to issue all involved a shot of
bourbon to warm up. To make it last many would pour it into a cup of the
syrup Coke mix.

"Swiss Steak" about every other day. I never really knew why it was
called Swiss steak.
More like cooked grizzle.

My mother tried the powdered milk thing also. There was a
rebellion among us kids. Then she tried mixing it 50/50 with whole milk.
Still didn't hack it. We finally made my father drink a big glass of
the crap.
Never had powdered milk again.

Eisboch

I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try powdered
eggs...once.

I can remember our mother trying it as an economy measure. In the mid
fifties, the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway really cut into dads working
hours as a longshoreman in Halifax. Thank God the thing froze over in the
winter.
I believe the powered milk came in a blue box and we all hated it...didn't
taste right and there always seemed to be lumps in it.
No one around here had a blender in those days.

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:09:46 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I have always been know for having the proverbial "cast iron stomach" and
very little will make me sick. I think I can count on my fingers the number
of times I've had to puke in my life.

But this experience made up for it. I thought I bought the farm for a
while.

Moral: Never, ever buy one of those pre-cooked chickens again.

Seems there's degrees of food poisoning. Never had it bad.
My rule is to eat nearly all home-cooked, and don't eat the chicken at
a wedding.
Used to buy Browns "day-old" cold fried chicken to put in the cooler
for a days fishing.
Got sick on it about the 10th time I bought it.
Chicken seems to cause more than it's share of FP.

--Vic

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:45:25 -0800 (PST), tim
wrote:

However, is it one of those items like rope, it's rope until it goes
on a boat then it is called line.

Yes. When I was a kid the summer camp had some X-boats. They had
lengths of line sown to the edges of the sails, instead of slides or
whatever. These were called " Boltropes ". There were tunnels for them
in the mast and boom.

Casady

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:50:37 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .

Ketchup -- blech!

Tobasco -- yumm.

I never tried Tobasco on eggs until I met my father-in-law. He used to
cover eggs with the stuff.
I tried it, liked it and still use it, but not to the extent he used it.

I recently bought some Tobasco sauce and mistakenly got the "Habanero"
version.

Whew!

Eisboch

Do try the Chipotle version. It is superb.