Depression era sandwich

[thevalueman]

I remeber about 50 yrs ago , daddy had fallen off a ladder at work and was drawing $88 dollars a week Workmans comp.
he would buy a tube of bologna and a tube of peppered salami every other week.
I do not eat bologna nor salami today!!

when I was a child....12-15....my dad went on a diet...lost over 100lb's....we ate broiled chicken at least 5x week....I will NEVER....EVER eat broiled chicken.....if it was the last thing on earth to eat....I may just starve....not sure

 

[lostchild]

so...you went to the bar every day??

I did. It was next door to my house, the bartender was a good friend, we’d shoot pool and drink beer until the afternoon rush.
I also tended bar when they needed help, and worked the door on nights they had a band.

 

[BHPSteel]

Dad and his brother liked Limburger cheese, sweet onion sammiches on rye bread.
Washed down with a cold beer.

Heh. I had a cheddar and raw yellow onion sandwich for lunch today

 

[Bellman2]

I still love German bologna on sandwiches or fried with eggs. My father always brought a 20 pound hoop of red tine cheese and a stick of bologna every couple months and ne we kept bologna in freezer and you get it out and slice off a slice and fry up and put on sandwiches. We grew about everything we eat except this and bread and milk. I thought growing up on farm was tough but looking back I would not trade it for anything!

You sir know how to eat! Same here.we got our chores done and Ron those hills, fished the streams,camped out with no adults around., cooked our food on an open fire. Spent some nights in two man army surplus tents. Lord knows how we survived, but I thank him for my memories.

 

[boinky]

Wish Sandwich, two pieces of bread and wish you could afford meat.

My mom used to fix me mayo, cheddar cheese and pickle sandwich. Love them and still eat them today. I use extra sharp cheese now.

 

[BHPSteel]

Wish Sandwich, two pieces of bread and wish you could afford meat.

My mom used to fix me mayo, cheddar cheese and pickle sandwich. Love them and still eat them today. I use extra sharp cheese now.

Extra-sharp cheese, and if you can find it, Branston pickle. On nice crusty bread.

 

[fuelman1]

Powdered milk. We never had regular milk. Going to a friends house that had whole milk was like a dream. My buddy's mom bought deli meat and whole milk. That was high cotton.

 

[DinkyDau]

Best sandwich I ever had when I was a kid was on a fishing trip. An old man down the street invited me to go on a fishing trip, to Flamingo State Park in the everglades. I worked there two summers and knew the area and how to get Reds and Snook. He and his wife I think were Polish, and she made a box lunch for us. When it was time to eat, he opened the box, pulled out his knife unwrapped a chunk of Pastrami and hoop cheese. He cut off a big slice of both, put mayo on two pieces of bread and slapped it together.. Man o Man that was great.

 

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love this ****:

 

[thevalueman]

My daughter in law makes that cheese ball in the picture.....I can eat the whole thing...