Also - one of the local Korean war vets told about being a new soldier and going thru a chow line 'way out in California - a million miles from home, homesick as all gitout, and about to be shipped over to certain destruction. As he sadly pondered his fate, he spotted one of the cooks wearing a "Belle Of Ava" flour sack for an apron. Made him feel like it was a small world after all. Belle Of Ava flour was made right here in our little town in Southern Illinois.
I wore a bunch of shirts made from laying mash sacks. They were about worn out - I had four brothers older than me.
Not really burlap, but brings back good memories. By the way - does anyone else call a burlap sack a "gunny sack". That was what they were known by in this area. As in, "Stuff that pig in that there gunny sack and run 'im down to to the vet to fix 'es rupture". Wonder where the name "gunny sack" came from. . . By the way again - a pig in a gunny sack in a vet's waiting room will get you first place in line every time.
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