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Popcorn into the firebox?

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Posted by Firelock76 on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 6:10 PM

 

At the mention of lard...

Maybe this comment belongs over in the "Classic Toy Trains" Forum, but one of the trains I like to run around my O gauge layout is made up of billboard cars from vintage meat packing houses advertising  "Hams.  Bacon.  LARD!"

It cracks me up, even though I know back in those pre-war days NO respectable kitchen here in the US was without its can of lard!

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 1:28 PM
Grandma used to eat it all the time, dripping with molasses, white lead and sprinkled with asbestos.
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Posted by Firelock76 on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:09 PM

And I'll bet she lived to be 105!

Probably before she was born before they knew that stuff was bad for you!

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