Game 35 Yankees (Montgomery) @ Rays (Patino) Voit Returns

Follow me for more recipes from the Great Depression... when you had to eat stale food and you kinda just wound up used to the taste after the Depression was over

Several reasons for using stale bread for dressing/stuffing, meatloaf, meatballs, bread pudding, etc.  Less moisture enables the bread to soak up more seasoning and spices, as well as to stand up to liquid without getting completely soggy and disappearing during cooking time.  It also extends the amount of specific dishes and doesn’t waste days old food.  

I think the reason my Grandparents started doing it for the soup was specifically for that last reason.. (not the French Onion, that's actually a thing.. the soup with the stale bread and boiled water salt n pepper... like I said, there was probably more in the soup but that's how I remember it)

My Grandparents wouldn't eat meatballs from anywhere because they weren't cooked properly, with the stale bread bread crumbs

. I agree that certain foods have stale bread as a requirement. Meatballs, meat loaf (which I do not like until the second day, by the way, bread pudding are things I recall eating with stale bread and feeling as though without stale bread, the product quality drops precipitously.

Stale bread with salt and pepper soup is not in my wheelhouse, but we ate some po’ man’s food that you likely didn’t.

Smelts (Eecch! Eat the bones, they’re soft)
Spam
Campbells baked bean sandwiches
Probably some stuff that I was thankful I had no idea what it was

Where we lived the po’ side of town people got called herring snatchers. You were a Piney. Only difference was local culture, of which there was little either place...

Funny, that little town now embraces the name Herring Snatchers. Iff it used to be an insult. If all cultures did that, we could fix a lot of problems real quick, couldn’t we?...

I’d rather sing a song about a smelt than eat them again any day. Not much of a shock that the car was a Chevrolet on Dinah’s show. You know, we watched that show every time it was on, and I couldn’t tell you much about it. I guess I was too young to appreciate it..,

I understand. I mean Spam is an American standard. It’s fed many when times were tough, and it’s still continued to feed many in good times. And how to critique something when no one, not even the makers REALLY knows what’s in it. There is no animal called the “Spam” that we can actively grow on farms. I’ve never seen one in the wild. I’ve come to the conclusion that Spam is an amalgam of the meats of the Bigfoot, chupacabra, moth man, Jersey Devil, and various aliens that the government has been hiding from us for centuries. Why shouldn’t we eat it? These meats shouldn’t go to waste...