[AT] Meals

[robinson at svs.net]

     Breakfast, lunch and supper...    ;-)    
     A dinner was something you went away or gathered for like a family dinner 
or a meal at an evening farm related dinner.
     If planting was running a little late and pressure building lunch and 
sometimes supper was in sandwich form so it could be eaten with one hand while 
driving a tractor. We never ran over night but at planting time past midnight 
wasn't uncommon. In that case another "snack" was sometimes delivered at about 
10 PM
     When plowing we usually had a long spring on one steering arm of the Ford 
and Ferguson tractors so that if you let go of the wheel it would steer toward 
the furrow wall. That made eating easier. When disking or dragging etc it was 
possible to steer with your feet on the rear end of the steering arms.
    To this day I am still a big fan of sandwiches (OK, most food) and one of 
my grandsons is always poking me about putting almost anything in a bun or 
between two slices of bread.
    There was no such thing as eating out at a restaurant... My maternal 
grandmother had owned a restaurant long ago (before my time) but my parents 
just would not eat out. My father had traveled the state fair circuit with an 
auto dare devil outfit (auto polo) back in the 1920's and said he got sick of 
always eating in restaurants. I doubt if he ate 50 restaurant meals over the 
rest of his life (he lived to 84) and those were on the road. I won't try to 
estimate how many restaurant meals I have had...   ;-)



-- 
farmer, Esq.
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net