My grandma and her sister picked dandelion leaves as young girls.

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Apr 2, 2025
8:14:00am

Leonardo All-American

I think they cooked them similar to how they used to boil spinach, but I don't know for sure what they did with them.

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Leonardo

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Things your grandparents ate during the Great Depression: My grandma says that

oxcoug

Apr 2, 8:10am

My grandma and her sister picked dandelion leaves as young girls.

Leonardo

Apr 2, 8:14am

RE: My grandma and her sister picked dandelion leaves as young girls.

RockyBalboa

Apr 2, 8:19am

Never had it, but dandelion soup is a thing. The entire plant is edible.

gangbusters

Apr 2, 8:24am

I had dandelion greens about a year ago. Awful, even Kale is better. I feel for

IceCreamButt

Apr 2, 9:05am

My Dad referred to the toilet paper in that era as "steel toilet paper"

RockyBalboa

Apr 2, 8:14am

My dad was born during the Great Depression. To this day one of his favorite desserts is...

Tokolosh

Apr 2, 8:15am

My dad learned that from his parents, and I have always eaten my cake in a bowl

EM_Puma

Apr 2, 8:19am

I won't eat cake without a glass of milk but thanks to you guys I'm just going

Y'sWoody

Apr 2, 8:29am

It’s really good. Most cake is too dry to eat without at least having milk to drink with it, and if you get ice cream on

mvtoro

Apr 2, 10:00am

My grandma would follow vegetable carts in Texas and take home whatever fell off

OU Cougar

Apr 2, 8:16am

Oh here's one I saw my gramps do: Raw, sliced potato w sprinkling of salt. He'd

oxcoug

Apr 2, 8:17am

Squirrel is actually pretty tasty. I've heard Mt Lion can be. and Rattle Snake is very tasty

crimedog

Apr 2, 8:19am

Mike Huckabee agrees - from a popcorn popper!

oxcoug

Apr 2, 8:20am

This is how I have had it. I was shocked how tasty it was

crimedog

Apr 2, 8:26am

One of my stepfathers, that didn't grow up in the Depression, loved squirrel

EM_Puma

Apr 2, 8:22am

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EM_Puma

Apr 2, 8:26am

No thank you, Delmar. One third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it down.

Skeptical Optimist

Apr 2, 8:37am

haha such a great scene

crimedog

Apr 2, 8:37am

"We found a whole ..... gopher village"

Skeptical Optimist

Apr 2, 11:43am

Danish sandwich with liverwurst are great.

bluesloth

Apr 2, 8:20am

All organs are a no for me, dawg. I'd rather eat someone else's bicep or

oxcoug

Apr 2, 8:47am

My grandma liked cow tongue sandwiches because that's what they could get for cheap. Ate them till the end of her days

Perseguir

Apr 2, 8:21am

I ate tongue in Chile. It's really not bad tasting at all. The only downside

EM_Puma

Apr 2, 8:27am

Funny I ate it in Brasil served by an extremely impoverished Chileno family

CariocaCoug

Apr 2, 11:05am

You can buy tongue at Sam's Club. We eat it like once a month. Best tacos

RSL

Apr 2, 8:30am

Beef tongue is delicious. I had it as a kid as well. I love tacos de lengua today.

jdub

Apr 2, 11:22am

I ate bread and milk with my grandpa. He added salt and pepper. I added sugar.

BlueTooth

Apr 2, 8:23am

Ever hear of headcheese?

BYU Grounds

Apr 2, 8:23am

We used powdered milk until I got to HS age

Indy Coug

Apr 2, 8:27am

I had powdered milk the whole 2 years in Chile. It's just what they used.

EM_Puma

Apr 2, 8:29am

we had to use it in rural Alaska b/c couldn't get fresh. then when we moved to city still had to put it on our cereal

byujag

Apr 2, 9:49am

Or sometimes the dreaded half-powdered-milk/half-real-milk. Just ruining the little normal milk we had. 😕

mvtoro

Apr 2, 10:04am

Morning Moo is the best powdered milk I have had. When cold, not bad.

Parker Schnabel

Apr 2, 10:36am

Mixed half & half w/ 2% is decent. Much better than old powdered Carnation instant. Yuck.

Soupie

Apr 2, 10:38am

If mom made breakfast (which was rare) we knew it was because the milk ran out

DiamondMo

Apr 2, 11:35am

Even in his later days, my grandpa would take a thermos of milk to work each day

RevolutionDeathsquad

Apr 2, 8:27am

My dad ate

Repete397

Apr 2, 8:30am

My grandpa was so grateful for any food anyone brought him.

SLC-Durham

Apr 2, 8:34am

My grandparents literally grew up, hooked, or shot everything they ate.

bubbastats

Apr 2, 8:35am

Spam. Sooooo goooooood!

WDaddy

Apr 2, 8:48am

Lots of folks liked bread and milk

Nodak Cougar

Apr 2, 8:48am

My depression era parents liked bread and milk and saltine crackers and milk

Florwood

Apr 2, 8:51am

Hey, home-made whole wheat bread and milk is not bad!

85fan

Apr 2, 3:36pm

My G-Grandfather was a butcher and had to eat expensive cuts of meat

Cheese

Apr 2, 8:51am

My grandma's go-to that she learned during the depression was to save all of the

Emmett Fitz-Hume

Apr 2, 9:32am

Yup, my parents were depression children. We had soup can where dad would save the bacon, hamburger or other meat grease

BYU Grounds

Apr 2, 9:34am

Mom was born in 1926 and they ate that also, as well as dandelion leaves in OK

TeeKaa

Apr 2, 9:52am

I've had squirrel and I'm not even old.

TN_Coug

Apr 2, 10:12am

We have an old family recipe passed down called Slumgullion - probably not a depression-era recipe

Skeptical Optimist

Apr 2, 10:20am

Liverwurst is awesome and I would eat a liverwurst, mustard, and cream cheese sandwich every day for lunch if it didn’t

Clark Addison

Apr 2, 11:43am

I like liverwurst as well. So does my oldest son. But nobody else in the family does.

jdub

Apr 2, 11:48am

I grew up on "bread and milk" for supper. It was a regular meal that we enjoyed.

HighHorse

Apr 3, 6:20am

Threads like these are going to come in handy over the next few years with our economic downturn

byuTX

Apr 3, 6:54am

We ate bread and milk because my grandpa passed it down to my mom.

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