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Raking autumn leaves into a "town" with sidewalks and houses, and then eventually raking them all into the big pile in the middle of the backyard in which you would bury potatoes before setting the pile on fire, and then after it was burned down, picking out the potatoes with a stick and eating them with butter and salt.
There was never in the history of the world a better meal.
I thought we were the only people who did this! A great fall memory, indeed.
Raking autumn leaves into a "town" with sidewalks and houses, and then eventually raking them all into the big pile in the middle of the backyard in which you would bury potatoes before setting the pile on fire, and then after it was burned down, picking out the potatoes with a stick and eating them with butter and salt.
There was never in the history of the world a better meal.
Never heard of this before, but it sounds AWESOME.
We used to collect chestnuts and have a great time doing it. Some on the ground and some we'd knock down. We'd shine them up and save them, play w/ them as young kids.
We used to collect chestnuts and have a great time doing it. Some on the ground and some we'd knock down. We'd shine them up and save them, play w/ them as young kids.
So did we! Horse chestnuts, we called the round brown ones. We poked holes in them to try to make horse chestnut necklaces. Forgot about that.
Meat came wrapped up in butcher paper, not on a styrofoam tray and covered in clear plastic.
Vegetables came fresh from the garden or canned (later home frozen) so there was no packaging, just the container your mom had put it in. Then she would wash and use it next year.
Popcorn. Didn't come already popped or in some aluminum container. I don't know how it came but we popped it in a popcorn popper with a mesh basket and a long handle, over the stove.
We bought popcorn kernels that came in a jar. You put a saucepan on the stove, melted a lump of butter in it, then added the kernels, put the lid on the pan, and slid it back and forth across the burner (electric) until the kernels started to pop. As they got done they pushed the lid up, and that was how you knew they were done. Poured the popcorn into a big bowl and added more butter, and salt. Yum.
We bought popcorn kernels that came in a jar. You put a saucepan on the stove, melted a lump of butter in it, then added the kernels, put the lid on the pan, and slid it back and forth across the burner (electric) until the kernels started to pop. As they got done they pushed the lid up, and that was how you knew they were done. Poured the popcorn into a big bowl and added more butter, and salt. Yum.
I STILL make popcorn on the stove-but we have a gas stove. I don't use butter in the pan-only a bit of oil. There have been a few times when EVERY KERNEL POPPED!!!! I am GOOD!!!
Stores closed at 5:30, stayed open Friday night until 9, all the farmers came to town to do their week's shopping. Drug stores opened Sunday morning tilll noon, after that, only the bowling alley open Sunday afternoon.
The bowling alley bar got the first tv, 1949. Dad, who never went to bars, took me down to see it, we stayed about ten minutes. All I saw was a taking head.
Mom phoned the grocery store with her order, which was delivered in a motorcycle with a sidecar. If nobody home, it was brought in the back door, and perishables put in the ice-box. Grocery store phone number was 88. Paid the charge account balance end of the month. No shopping carts. Grocer would get thins down off a shelf, using a stick if they were too high to reach, and catch them as they fell. Hence the baseball expression for a lazy fly ball, "can o' corn".
We got an electric fridge when I was five. Before that, the ice-man came around every few days with a big block of ice to cool the interior of a box that looked like a fridge. The ice man also delivered coal in the winter.
My father, who was born in 1912, always referred to our fridge as the icebox. He and my mother were tickled when, in the 1960s, under the influence of the Beatles and other English people, I started referring to our refrigerator as the fridge. Most of my friends today use that word.
I STILL make popcorn on the stove-but we have a gas stove. I don't use butter in the pan-only a bit of oil. There have been a few times when EVERY KERNEL POPPED!!!! I am GOOD!!!
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Cool. I always wondered how people made popcorn on a gas stove.
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A great fall memory, indeed.
