"Poor Man's Meal" - a Depression-era recipe - Neatorama

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91-year old Claire shows how she cooked meals during the Great Depression. Nothing special - potatoes and hot dogs - but her commentary does make today's problems seem less intense.

"I had to quit high school because we couldn't afford socks...we couldn't afford anything to wear."

- via consumerist

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

There are five videos with this lady. The other four can be accessed at this link:
http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Episodes.html

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That's a mighty cute grandma.

And some mighty cute boys.

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potatoes and hot dogs would probably make me break a mighty wind.

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That looks really good!

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Looks like prime Bachelor Chow to me.

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Damn! I gotta try it now! Looks good and inexpensive.

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WOW I just made this for lunch and sit down to check out neatorama. I made mine with bacon and course ground pepper and last week we made the same thing with onion soup mix to season the potatoes, bacon, and onions.

This is also great camping food

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Back in college (starvation days), I'd buy a 10 lb. bag of red-skinned potatoes each week and a few sticks of butter. Lived off that exclusively for one year. Got a bubble-butt as a result. Took another year to rid myself of "bubble-butt". The taters were cheap and good and kept me alive during that time.

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Seems the traffic killed the Grandma's website.
You can find her on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

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Hot dogs beats spam any day.

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Whoa. These looks exactly like the meal I would make back in the dorms! And Nana is right...they are darn good and cheap to make! :)

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Ahhhh, meals for our times. The irony is painful.

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"and when there was no crawdad...we ate sand."

"You ate WHAT?"

"We ate sand..."

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You could save even more money...skip the hot dogs (they aren't that cheap anymore) and drink a glass of milk for protein

Jack

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Wonderful! Thank-you!!!

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I have fixed this for years with SPAM very very good.
Everyone likes it.

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Did anyone get what kind of sauce she mixed in there?

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She used a couple tablespoons of tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce I believe. She's so cute. Looks like I'm having me some poor mans dinner for lunch and dinner today!! Yum! I'm going to add some green pepper and lots of garlic and serve it with toasted bread.

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Cutest thing I've ever seen. As an unemployed college student barely hanging on in this recession, this might come in handy.

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