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After listening to all the discussion on this subject......I bought me a
Mash's ham slice last night to grind up and fix a batch of ham salad for
lunch. Sometimes if I have some Sargento shredded cheddar cheese, I'll
throw some in and have ham and cheese salad. When I was in the Navy
stationed at Lemoore, California they had a "Roach Coach" that came
around the barracks and hangers several times a day. It had the best
ham salad.

Ray

OK Mash's and Sargento.......I expect a case of products on my doorstep
by the end of next week. O:-)

Yum! I love ham. LOVE it. I would eat it every day if we weren't a
primarily veg household.

-Kalera
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Ray DeVous wrote:
After listening to all the discussion on this subject......I bought me a
Mash's ham slice last night to grind up and fix a batch of ham salad for
lunch. Sometimes if I have some Sargento shredded cheddar cheese, I'll
throw some in and have ham and cheese salad. When I was in the Navy
stationed at Lemoore, California they had a "Roach Coach" that came
around the barracks and hangers several times a day. It had the best
ham salad.

Ray

OK Mash's and Sargento.......I expect a case of products on my doorstep
by the end of next week. O:-)

Yep, I wasn't around then... but I was raised on government commodity
food in the 70's, and as much as indians talk about commodity food I
never heard anyone say "it's a lot better than it used to be", LOL! I
also remember, in the 80's, going to the commodity food store (I think
it was attached to the Post Office) in the village we were living in
then (I was born in Portland but we moved up to WA state when I was 11
or 12) and they had ICE CREAM! That was the first and only time I'd seen
that.

Anyway, it might have been repulsive to an adult who was used to better,
but to a kid it was just food. It was what we had and my mom made some
killer enchiladas out of the canned chicken- we were always excited when
there was canned chicken- and mixed the dry milk with peanut butter to
make peanut butter balls, which I considered candy.

Beans are beans, no matter where you get them. I like beans, always
have, and still do.

Sometimes the butter was rancid. I think that was a storage issue.

I did not like the cheese. I won't say I liked the cheese, but a lot of
people did, including old-timers (my friend John is 75 and he liked the
cheese). A lot of people talk about that cheese like it was the best
thing in the world, and bemoan its current unavailability. I think that
if they go to WinCo and get the "American Cheese" in the five-pound
brick they might find it similar. I might have liked the cheese if we
had white bread to make grilled cheese sandwiches on but my mom made her
own brown bread, in retrospect the best bread in the world, but the
cheese never tasted right on it, and of course the block of cheese they
give you is so big you have to eat it every day, day in and day out, or
it will go moldy on you. It's not bad with eggs though.

The macaroni and cheese, which we rarely ate because my mom said it had
no nutritional value, was pretty comparable to the cheap generic
grocery-store mac and cheese, which I don't eat today but then I don't
HAVE to eat it. When I was poor and I could get it ten for a dollar I
certainly did eat it, and was happy to have it too. I felt clever about
being able to make a dollar last a week, even if it meant I got scurvy
and rickets! (No, I never had scurvy or rickets, though if I'd kept
it up I'm sure I would have.)

I used to literally daydream about being able to buy "fresh groceries"
for every day, and cook an actual full meal every night of the week.
That, to me, sounded like the height of luxury. I knew that when I could
buy fresh food every day, I'd be rich.

And I am!

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Kaytee wrote:
In article , Kalera Stratton
writes:


Well, it's nice for her that she could afford to turn up her nose at
that food, but it's a good part of the reason that I'm here today and
for that I'm thankful.



Like I said, she was very thin.... But I think this may have been before you
were even in your current existance-- like late '50s/early '60s.... I did taste
the milk powder-- my mom made herself skim milk from powder, and I used to like
to eat that dry. The govt. issue stuff was NOT the same. Didn't taste like milk
at all. You could write on a blackboard with the chunks.
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com

Kalera wrote:

I used to literally daydream about being able to buy "fresh groceries"
for every day, and cook an actual full meal every night of the week.
That, to me, sounded like the height of luxury. I knew that when I could
buy fresh food every day, I'd be rich.

And I am!

LOL, once when my first husband was in chemo, we were so poor I sold the
wedding rings to feed my kids. When his disability money finally came in, I
went shopping for anything that didn't resemble 'generic' boxes of
mac'n'chees or tins of beans and the like.

To this day, I still feel sometimes like Scarlett O'Hara when she's in the
field with those raw turnips.... It's probably why I'm overweight and have
problems giving up things that I know are bad for me to eat, somewhere it's
lurking that I may end up back in the 'bad old days'. Today, when the
reality of worrying about Mike's being off work for so long really got to
me, I dug out all the comfort foods I could find and had one of those
days... fortunately there wasn't much in the way of comfort food in the
house but it wasn't till later that I realized _why_ I'd gone on the binge.

When we were kids we were stone broke too, and a big treat was having fish
fingers on Friday.

-Su

Our Friday night meal was Mrs. Paul fish sticks, a vegetable and
Franco-American canned macaroni and cheese. I looked forward to it.
With the exception of switching to Kraft macaroni and cheese we haven't
changed the Friday menu.

Ray
(Oh, goodie more cases of products.............. :-P )

Su/Cutworks wrote:

When we were kids we were stone broke too, and a big treat was having fish
fingers on Friday.

-Su

OH MYY!!! I love canned Franco-American mac and cheese. And I can't find it
anywhere! Did they stop making it. Even my husband, bless his heart, still
looks for it because he knows it's one of my guilty food pleasures.

If not F-A, then I want homemade. I used to make KILLER mac and cheese but
then Kraft dumped their Casino brand Muenster cheese. Haven't found a
suitable replacement. And now Keith is on a lower carb diet for his
cholesterol. Life sucks.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Ray DeVous" wrote in message
...
Our Friday night meal was Mrs. Paul fish sticks, a vegetable and
Franco-American canned macaroni and cheese. I looked forward to it. With
the exception of switching to Kraft macaroni and cheese we haven't changed
the Friday menu.

Ray
(Oh, goodie more cases of products.............. :-P )

Su/Cutworks wrote:

When we were kids we were stone broke too, and a big treat was having fish
fingers on Friday.

-Su



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Oh my..............I'm drooling. The postage would be outrageous - as I
recall that stuff was heavy. But it's so tempting!

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Kathy N-V" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:49:54 -0400, JoAnn Paules wrote
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OH MYY!!! I love canned Franco-American mac and cheese. And I can't find
it
anywhere! Did they stop making it. Even my husband, bless his heart,
still
looks for it because he knows it's one of my guilty food pleasures.

I guess I live in the Twilight Zone for hard to find food products.
That stuff is widely available here, and dirt cheap. Do you want
some?

Kathy N-V



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In article , "JoAnn Paules"
writes:

And now Keith is on a lower carb diet for his
cholesterol.

Atkins Group makes some sort of "low carb" pasta....
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com

And it's terrible! We tried it. About $2.50 per box. We've learned we don't
like low-carb pasta, anyone's brand. And the Atkin's sauce was awful!

We've decided that real pasta once everyother week won't kill either one of
us. In between times we do a lot of salads.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Kaytee" wrote in message
...
In article , "JoAnn Paules"
writes:

And now Keith is on a lower carb diet for his
cholesterol.

Atkins Group makes some sort of "low carb" pasta....
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com




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