Posted by PJH on March 26, 2020 at 08:04:22 from (172.79.186.37):
In Reply to: Re: Tater hiller posted by Hobo,NC on March 26, 2020 at 05:42:26:
To add to Hobo's complaints - when I was young and we dug taters by hand, they were a dime a pound in the grocery store. And the ground was always dry and hard as a rock.
We store white potatoes in milk crates in an underground cellar. They keep well enough that we make "seed" or "sets" (proper term?) from them the following spring.
An old guy I used to work for told of losing his job in St. Louis when the stock market crashed in 1929. His family was hungry and he returned to our little town, but there was no hope there either. His family was taken in by some folks who he had always thought were the poorest people in the neighborhood. He wondered what they would all do for food, and the benefactor took him out back to his underground cellar and it was stacked to the ceiling with Irish potatoes. The old guy said that they ate potatoes for breakfast, dinner and supper until they were sick of potatoes, but they never were hungry. It was a good story - you can be without a penny, but if you have something however meager to eat, you feel like the richest guy on the planet.
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