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Old 07-24-2014, 12:20 PM
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It was an entirely different mindset in those years. We were all fed without the help of government.
My single mother was on welfare (and later, food stamps), starting in the mid 50s, so that's all I knew as a kid. She didn't much cook from scratch, either.