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Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Strange foods
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:27:05 -0400
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we always had squeezed oranges with our pancakes and sugar..lovely
taste...also peaches with bread and butter..still to this day can't eat
peaches without bread and butter....thanks mum for your lovely english
traditions...Diane daughter of the late Mrs Jean Tyson (war bride 1944)
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From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: [WarBrides] Strange foods


> This is great fun! My first encounter with a bran muffin was not
positive. I had arrived in Saskatoon the night before, we had stayed at the
Bessborough and now my first meeting with the in-laws. Tea was served and
on the plate of 'goodies' were home made cookies (unlike the biscuits I
knew) and what I took to be a small cake. So I took one and bit into it
without putting butter on it. It was so dry I nearly choked as I tried to
swallow it. Corn was another unfamiliar item and people served the tinned
cream corn with crushed up crackers and (I think) extra milk, called it
scalloped corn - it was revolting as were creamed peas - tinned peas
swimming in white sauce. I have made pumpkin pie for all these years but
have never eaten it - one taste was enough. And then there is cranberry
sauce - jam on my turkey? I don't think so. I do enjoy corn on the cob
though not any other corn, don't eat peanut butter and still like my
pancakes with lemon juice and sugar - and occa!
> sionally say 'to hell with cholesterol' and have egg and chips!
> One other surprise was canned chicken in jars, served cold with jelly
around it - could be very good - or not. I stopped eating that after I
attended a picnic where one lot was tainted and a little girl nearly died!
I also remember laughing at the 'Fowl Suppers" I thought they were saying
'foul'!
> Joan Reichardt
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