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  1. We studied pemmican in school in studies about Native Americans. It was 1967 in American History class in Savannah, Ga. The original survivalist food!
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  2. The fact that many people still live this way in many parts of the world and our grandmothers lived that way even during the Great Depression in many areas of the US gives one an appreciation of modern convienences. My Grandmother washed clothes in a huge iron pot over an open fire until a passing salesman sold her a washing machine run on a gas motor for a little pig. Grandpa thought it was a waste of a good pig! Lol!
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  3. People married young. Life expectancy was short. My great grandmother born in 1892 married at thirteeen. Medical advances in the 20th century literally saved many who'd not live past childhood before,eg antibiotics and vaccines.
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  4. A lot of towns and food in Missouri have a Mexican influence which puzzled me unti I read that a lot of Missouri boys were in the 1840 Mexican War.
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  5. My Dad said during the Great Depression that pinto beans and cornbread was a staple.
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  6. YES! We had some great school lunches before they all got prefabbed. We had chocolate creme cake on Fridays. And something different every day made fresh.
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  7. In the south corn meal is used as a thickener.
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  8. I miss those big family get togethers at my great grandmother's house in Georgia at Easter and Christmas that we kept throughout my life until Granny passed. Family would come from as far away as California,North Carolina,and Florida and eat and renew family ties at the huge dinners we'd have in her big old farm house that dated back to the 1800's.And we'd go to church at that little white church Red Bluff Baptist and see even more related families that dated back to the colonial days and the Revolution.
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  9. My mother made a type of raisin filled cake in a coffee can she sealed and steamed in a pressure cooker.
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  10. Having spent time in my great grandma's big farm house that was heated by fireplaces I can not imagine how cold it must have been for the poor. Granny finally switched to gas heat when I was twelve and got indoor plumbing when I was eight. Before that when we visited her it was an out house or little enamel pots and baths in a huge old galvanized tub on Saturday night to tidy up for church next day.
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  11. Bricks lined most old wells I've seen.
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  12. True. Fruit was added. Dried of course.
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  13.  @jesipohl6717  I have family that are Cuban, Mexican,and Puerto Rican descent. They did not come illegally en mass. I live in Florida. Our Hispanic population voted overwhelmingly Republican in the last election and saved Florida from Gillum and Crist which are prime examples of the failing Democrat party.
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  14. True. People literally starved or became ill from lack of nutritious food. My mother had a little school friend who died along with her mother of TB from living on peas and rice and living in a damp basement apartment. Sadly many men who left to find work just abandoned their families. My great uncle did that. He ran away and left Aunt Anna with five little girls alone and if it wasn't for Catholic Charities they would have literally starved because they were up in Baltimore far from home in Georgia.
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  15. Now you may think I made this up but I had never heard of Sloppy Joe until we moved to Ohio when I was twelve from S.C. We had it once a week at school. We fell in love with them.
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  16. Sweet memories of holidays know no national boundaries.
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  17. Interesting to know. I knew deer hides were a big commodity in colonial times along with timber but not this about bison later.
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  18. My grandmother made fruitcakes and even the family members that weren't keen on them would eat hers. I think it was the butter. Lol!
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  19. My grandmother batter dipped her chicken too. It was so crisp on the outside but tender inside.
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  20. My Dad grew up on a farm in Missouri and loved salt pork fried up for breakfast with eggs and biscuits. Also in bean soup.
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  21. My grandmother nursed family and friends through that flu epidemic. She was only 20. And "laid out the dead" for burial too.
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  22. I heard they drank small beer even at breakfast. And kids too. It was more nutritional than todays.
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  23. Condolences for your loss but what a legacy to remember. Love your videos.
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  24. @BaptistJoshua  That's great.Keeping the family traditions alive.
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  25. During the Great Depression it was peas and rice as a staple in the South. TB was common due to poor nutrition. My Mom's best friend and her mothe died of TB.
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  26. My great grandmother,and great aunt had a well just about that distance from their backdoors near the kitchens that were originally seperated from the main part of the house reached by a long porch. This was because of the heat from cooking in summer and fire danger in Georgia. The wells were kept covered unless water was being drawn. Later pumps and indoor plumbing and water were added to the house. I was eight when Granny got an indoor bathroom. Thank goodness!
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  27. I could kick myself for not quizzing my great grandmother and grandmother about old timey Ky medicines and folk tales. My Dad told me his mother used to mix up a concoction of lard and sulfur and lather himself and his littler sisters up with it for skin irritations. Sounds awful! Lol!
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  28. I've seen these old wells in tours in St.Augustine. In Ga. because of the abundance of clay and brick making most were brick lined.
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  29. I read a book once about provisions for going out west. Cured meat,boiled eggs,flour,corn meal home remedies for illness including spirits were high on the list.
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  30. Dad said on their farm in Missouri they ate hominy and fried eggs.
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  31. Whole grains in cooked or breads and beer were a mainstay of diets for many but they were more nutritious than our highly refined products today.
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  32. You can still get salt pork in some groceries in the southern US.
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  33. Nutmeg? Lol!
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  34. It's an ancient process using brains to cure hides. It is a wonder how so many things we take for grantrd like agriculture came to be.
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  35. My father was born in 1921 and they lived on a farm and had no electricity until 1941. They used lanterns. The olden days are not so long ago as many think. I was born in 1950 and my greatgrandmother did not it indoor plumbing until I was 10. Boy was I glad! That outhouse and icy little chamber pots were not my favorite things!
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  36. The Three Sisters of squash/ pumpkin,beans and corn were staples of Native people's diets.
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  37. My grandfather was a farmer and raised and cured his own hams. My Dad regrets never writing down the recipe for the seasoning of salt and sugar and whatever Grandpa used. During the Great Depression they had no money but they at least raised their own food and canned and preserved it in the smokehouse.
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  38. My father grew up on a farm in the Great Depression they process hogs when weather got cold and ate everything on the old pig. Pickled, smoked/salted,canned,etc
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  39. Six of my ancestors fought in the swamps of the Carolinas in the Revolution. They recieved land grants afterwards in lieu of pay. One family of my cousins still live on their original land grant.
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  40. I make mine with Mom's recipe of beans onions,sweet peppers,and Tonis Creole seasoning and brown sugar and just a dash of ketchup. With bacon on top.
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  41. The Three Sisters.
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  42. Interesting. We have amall fruit pies in the USA but I've not run across meat pies in the south or midwest among my Mom's or Dad's families.
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  43. My paternal Grandma made it that way.They raised corn and sorghum.
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  44. My mother made baked bread and apple pudding. And southern corn bread stuffing is a type of savory" pudding" with onions and celery and cornmeal eaten on holidays and baked with turkey.As is southern fruit cake that's also a baked not boiled pudding similiar to English Christmas puddings.
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  45. My ancestors! Lol! Refugees from the high taxes on dissenters.
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  46. More factual than current history today as it's taught fraught with poorly researched political rubbish. This is well researched.
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  47. Both my grandmothers could sew so well that their work was comparable to professional seamstresses. Sadly, Mom was a bit of a tomboy and never picked it up nor did I but we both benefitted from Grammie,and Gangy's talents.
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  48. My Mom said that her Grandpa made the best peach brandy. Georgia peaches of course. Lol!
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  49. Chicken soup! Lol!
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  50. I actually bought some plum pudding from a specialty shoppe to see how it tasted. It reminded ne of my c Georgia grandmothers plum cake.
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