orange juice and fried bread with salty butter ,nutella bread ,granny smith apples with salt ,home made jam,incredible dishes of grandmom
The biggest treat for me was after my dad and I spent a hard day of work on the farm, he sometimes would take me down to the store for an RC Cola and a moonpie. I never grew out of loving RC cola and moonpies and still drink and eat them today.
Going down to that store was an almost daily routine. The store was in a small building with two gas pumps outside it and our post office boxes behind the counter where we would pick up our mail.
Toast with cinnamon and sugar. That was an occasional treat at breakfast.
"Porcupine" meatballs. They were just regular meatballs with rice as a filler. I had no idea getting them meant we were strapped for cash and mom was trying to stretch a pound of ground beef.
Johnny DeMarco's Pizza. I don't know if there was anything special about the pizza but legend is that one of my first spoken sentences was "Stop Johnny Marco's. Buy pizza" as we drove by one day.
Powdered egg, product of Canada. In dark brown, waxes cardboard cartons. When I was a child in London the ration was one real egg a week for a child and one a month for an adult.
Whistle Stop Pop Shop where dad would take us to fill up a wooden case of our favorite flavors. That was a big deal.
Jiffy Popcorn
Cream of Wheat
Orange Creamsicles
A quarter back then could buy a lot.Ooohh!!! Orange Creamsicles!
We had Al's Corner Store a block away. If I had a quarter I could go down there and get a bag full of candy necklaces, candy dots that came on a long strip of paper, pieces of bubblegum, etc. If I planned right I could also get a popsicle for a nickle but, if I skipped out on some of the candy, I could get a creamsicle (or one of those push up pops that came in what looked like a toilet paper tube with a stick out the bottom) for a dime. It was always a tough decision.
I've heard that by the end of the war children in the UK preferred powdered eggs over real eggs.
Ooohh!!! Orange Creamsicles!
We had Al's Corner Store a block away. If I had a quarter I could go down there and get a bag full of candy necklaces, candy dots that came on a long strip of paper, pieces of bubblegum, etc. If I planned right I could also get a popsicle for a nickle but, if I skipped out on some of the candy, I could get a creamsicle (or one of those push up pops that came in what looked like a toilet paper tube with a stick out the bottom) for a dime. It was always a tough decision.
Candy dots! I always ate more paper than dots.
Candy dots! I always ate more paper than dots.