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Show ELIZA FIFE SEPTEMBER 17,2001 delicious and we had no idea what we were eating until after and then we knew what it was and we couldn't believe it because it was very good. BEC: Really. ELI: Excellent the way she cooked it. Then, too, since you didn't have any fat and you didn't have much meat, potatoes were practically eaten three times a day. And so I said I don't know how my mother did it but she could cook potatoes in more different ways than you can shake a stick at. And they were always good. Yeah. So we survived and we ate a lot of legumes, like lentils and split peas and stuff like that. And we loved them. I mean, I tried to feed them to my kids and they thought it was awful (laughs). Anyway, they 're too spoiled. But anyway, we survived. But I think after the war my mom just about had a nervous breakdown. But it was rough on her. BEC: Yeah? ELI: And my dad, since he had a bad eye, he couldn't really go into the service but he was what they called, into the home guard type of a thing, so that if we were attacked or something he would be out and help there to take care of the people and so forth. So that's where he was. And then sometimes he would be sent out for training or whatever, and so then Mom would be stuck with all of us. We had four kids and we were all, well, see, I was ten when it started; I was sixteen when it ended. So we were in the teenage years during that worst part of the thing. And eating like, like threshers, you know. So, I don't know how she ever managed to feed us but, anyway, she did. And we turned out real well. Now for a while there, the bread we bought from the bakers--course the bread there is different from here. We had bread with a crust on it, you know (laughs). Bread! Okay? And so, for a while there they wouldn't let them sell the bread until at least 8 |
