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(DIR) Post #AqvWsAYa2kPdamG62i by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T01:38:50Z
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One of the things that I think isn't well understood about the cost of food is the cost of things going off. This is why "Saltines" or "Export Sodas" are popular. If you have one of these big tins you won't starve. You can't exactly live off of them. But they can bulk up many meals. They're a great snack. Have you ever seen them at your supermarket? I didn't know what they were till I moved to the Bronx 17 years ago.They can also be shipped to family overseas. And the tin is reusable.
(DIR) Post #AqvXBMqSZzn9CpmB7o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T01:42:19Z
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Tins of crackers used to be a staple at most US supermarkets, but, now they are only found in dense urban neighborhoods. You might remember your grandmother having something like this:But basic crackers aren't a big part of US diets in many places anymore. It's a food where you always eat it all. You get every penny of value you paid for. And keeping them on hand was insurance.
(DIR) Post #AqvXEa1K3Disw9OABU by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-02-09T01:42:58Z
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@futurebird tin keeps the mice out.
(DIR) Post #AqvXHAyNdK267eFaS0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T01:43:24Z
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@magicalthinking And the humidity. So you get to eat every last one.
(DIR) Post #AqvXU39I2AuvcZUZFI by Smart_e_Disharmony@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T01:45:40Z
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@futurebird I love crackers and reusable tins.maybe that's the hollowness I've felt my whole life: not having the two combined.
(DIR) Post #AqvXXQTjkcSOqVfLdI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T01:46:18Z
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@recursive They have stacks and stacks of them at my local grocery. A lot get shipped to family, but as many are used here. They've become an important cooking ingredient. If you want to make the best recipes you'll need some. But they are also a kind of paranoid food many people in this country have had the luxury of forgetting.
(DIR) Post #AqvXZyM4loD4UVIScy by knowmadd@mastodon.world
2025-02-09T01:46:44Z
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@futurebird Paired with some tinned fish š
(DIR) Post #AqvXoaVHjPuCrQZblY by rehana@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T01:49:23Z
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@futurebird I've never seen them in a tin, only a (much bigger, I think) flimsy cardboard box. And they're way on the bottom shelf where they're easy to miss.
(DIR) Post #AqvXtImP3X6FL4pOzI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T01:50:15Z
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@rehana Yeah they won't last for months in the paper box. Gotta eat them all in like a week or they won't be nice and crispy.
(DIR) Post #AqvYIUL7DJNwQm4fJY by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T01:54:48Z
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@futurebird Used to have one of the Premium tins. Or maybe I'm thinking of my mom's. They used to be popular in the rural south because they were bug and rodent proof. That might be a factor in the cities too?
(DIR) Post #AqvYJtRrLTTQastmPA by Moss@beige.party
2025-02-09T01:55:03Z
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@futurebird *dusty creaking* āBack in my day they came in a barrel!ā
(DIR) Post #AqvYgRXBIOOigE8ln6 by venya@musicians.today
2025-02-09T01:59:07Z
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@futurebird @recursive I fear many of us may have cause to appreciate them again soon.
(DIR) Post #AqvYspYToPlieeeeRM by Edonkulous@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T02:01:21Z
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@futurebird For my grandparents in rural Florida, the most challenging part of longer term food storage was keeping mice from nibbling on everything. The metal tin was the answer.
(DIR) Post #AqvZAnsAo1ROeKR6nY by maco@wandering.shop
2025-02-09T02:04:32Z
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@futurebird I had no idea they ever came in metal tins, but I certainly grew up with cardboard boxes of them
(DIR) Post #AqvZMH8kKaA4bcesqG by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-02-09T02:06:46Z
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@futurebird I find them in Russian and Asian markets.
(DIR) Post #AqvZoEm0iwHtNFMD8y by xris@ecoevo.social
2025-02-09T02:11:43Z
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@futurebird I remember these!My grandmother would always have one of these in her cupboard.
(DIR) Post #AqvZwhsCPoBRwTI4B6 by d_j_fitzgerald@bitbang.social
2025-02-09T02:13:15Z
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@futurebird I've been meaning to pick up one of those green tins of export sodas for years. I love that the tins is reusable! I figure it would be good to have on hand in case someone got sick.I usually just buy the version of Premiums with the "short stacks" wrappers and when I want peanut butter on crackers I'll use a whole stack.
(DIR) Post #AqvawUWi8aJAVDhV3o by ericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-02-09T02:21:45Z
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@FiddleSix @futurebird my father had this as a snack when I was young.
(DIR) Post #AqvawVsN7XEGggqJSi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:24:25Z
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@ericsedge @FiddleSix I have a vivid memory of my mom taking them out of the house because my grandfather didn't want us to spend money buying him food and he was half way living on them. We set up an order with the grocery store and he complained about it so much. But, he'd had a stroke and needed to stop eating such... empty cheap food. But he hated the idea of his kids buying his groceries. I wonder if I'll ever be that stubborn.
(DIR) Post #Aqvb0dwT4acGrWjCO8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:25:09Z
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@FiddleSix @ericsedge There is a REASON people who lived through the depression know about that.
(DIR) Post #AqvbCRpLwPrmlR1qvQ by ericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-02-09T02:27:19Z
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@futurebird @FiddleSix I wonder much the same.
(DIR) Post #AqvbIenubgTSkSJddA by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2025-02-09T02:28:23Z
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@futurebird For the benefit of your friends down under: Am I correct in assuming saltines/soda crackers and Salads biscuits are the same thing? https://www.arnotts.com/brands/salada
(DIR) Post #AqvbPZS6u0wIB4Pmi0 by troublewithwords@wandering.shop
2025-02-09T02:29:34Z
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@futurebird See also Mock Apple Pie. Pie crust with saltines, sugar and maybe a bit of cinnamon. If you couldnāt find or afford apples, it would do.
(DIR) Post #AqvbQY5BTrqUDd9pwW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:29:54Z
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@ajsadauskas I don't know, these are very crispy, like a matzo but a little sweeter and MUCH saltier. And more flakey. To be honest they are pretty yummy. But only really good as a source of calories, not much else in them of any value.
(DIR) Post #AqvbX40BiZtmx7vYFE by ericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-02-09T02:31:01Z
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@futurebird @FiddleSix my father was unemployed for a year in the 70ās. We ate a lot of potatoes and onions, government cheese, tuna helper was a treat. To this day I am in the habit of never tossing anything out and overstocking on canned goods.
(DIR) Post #AqvbjmMQcRuA0IORJQ by Moss@beige.party
2025-02-09T02:33:02Z
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@FiddleSix @futurebird From the same generation it was common to use crackers as an extender for scrambled eggs.
(DIR) Post #AqvbjnXoDcbPfsj2gq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:33:20Z
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@Moss @FiddleSix *furiously taking notes*
(DIR) Post #AqvcHUFGTk13fJ7EJM by not2b@sfba.social
2025-02-09T02:39:23Z
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@futurebird @ericsedge @FiddleSix Men, especially older men, were raised on so much toxic shit. Like, it is the man's role to be the provider, and if he can't provide and accepts help he is a failure. But all of us are vulnerable to getting sick or old or both, and eventually we need to rely on others. That is a very difficult transition for some men.
(DIR) Post #AqvcY2wfEUMXv1JNOy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:42:27Z
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@not2b @ericsedge @FiddleSix He raised five kids through the 50s and 60s working at the steel mill in this lovely country that's always very fair and nice. Sent them all to college. He can sit back and let them buy him stuff. It never made any sense to me.
(DIR) Post #AqvcfGShNOaRrojltQ by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2025-02-09T02:43:38Z
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@futurebird So out of curiosity I went down a Salada-related rabbit hole and found this: https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/salada-biscuits/Apparently Saladas were originally made by Brockoff's biscuits in Burwood, and were mostly a Victorian thing. (Brockoff's was taken over by Arnott's in the 1960s. Melburnians weren't pleased when they began making them in Sydney, because the texture was wrong.)Anyways, there's a photo of them below. Dry, flaky, square with perforations, coarse salt.They seem to be the same thing?
(DIR) Post #AqvciAJMhU4dezkrKq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-09T02:44:17Z
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@ajsadauskas Yup!
(DIR) Post #Aqvcp2SeHmcbL9NHwu by not2b@sfba.social
2025-02-09T02:45:29Z
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@futurebird @ericsedge @FiddleSix I kind of get it, because I remember my own father, but you are right, it doesn't make sense that some men just won't let go and accept help.
(DIR) Post #Aqvd0MzCJZm2BO0C92 by GPJohnston@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T02:47:32Z
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@futurebird definitely remember the tin and we ate saltines all the time growing up, I preferred them buttered. But my favorite were oyster crackers, put em in soup and especially chowder but while saltines would hang around awhile, the oyster crackers would be gone in a day. My brother and I called them Superman pills. š
(DIR) Post #AqvdSDbqloFdD5MR1M by anguinea@mstdn.social
2025-02-09T02:52:32Z
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@futurebird When I was a kid, my grandma showed me how during the Great Depression they would use saltines for cereal with a little milk and sugar. It gets pretty mushy.
(DIR) Post #AqvdYmNkOpnonCtQ2q by warkolm@aus.social
2025-02-09T02:53:44Z
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@futurebird @ajsadauskas these are bloody great!
(DIR) Post #AqveLI8rcVCLC740Se by heyther@zirk.us
2025-02-09T03:02:32Z
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@futurebird These were a staple in my childhood home (depression baby parents) and we keep a couple of boxes on hand even now since the power goes out often and they keep much longer than a loaf of bread.
(DIR) Post #AqveTzsurxIfB1ktZg by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-02-09T03:03:52Z
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@futurebird @recursive Tunaburgers...using these or other crackers in with the meat. (Originally called mackrelburgers in my family, if my memory is serving.)(Fish, Crackers, eggs....made into a patty.)
(DIR) Post #Aqvf5IZ2Nmk7pBFBDM by grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange
2025-02-09T03:10:51Z
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@futurebird reading the responses to this thread as I cleaned a sleeve of saltines with paella
(DIR) Post #Aqw4tjViy42WjNq8i8 by coastgnu@norden.social
2025-02-09T07:59:58Z
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@futurebird Here in Germany from time to time you will find tin cans for zwieback. And "Brandt Zwieback" is a traditional brand my grand-granny was used to offer.As kids we loved them in hot milk with a spoon of crunchy sugar!
(DIR) Post #AqwaOzas55nhvwi4lk by fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe
2025-02-09T13:52:25Z
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@maco @futurebird These were a staple in our house when I was growing up, tin and all. I still have them with soups and chili.
(DIR) Post #AqwbQpkHld6bvJYTx2 by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-02-09T14:04:37Z
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@futurebird for three years this was as close as I came to āreal breadā.The only thing more life sustaining is Matza which i got a hankering for after my Kabbalah Teacher decided to share Passover with all this students Jews and Gentiles alike.
(DIR) Post #AqwfcQ0Nh8knNmraRk by PTR_K@dice.camp
2025-02-09T14:51:30Z
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@futurebird My grandmother (in small-town Pennsylvania) DID have one of these. This type specifically. Haven't seen them in years.Although, by the time I was alive, she used it for oyster crackers rather than the saltines depicted on the tin.
(DIR) Post #AqxANosA3Mbgk7XMbA by jaycruz@fosstodon.org
2025-02-09T20:36:15Z
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@futurebird When I was a kid in Puerto Rico, some kids filled those empty Export Sodas giant cans with marbles they've been collecting for years. Also, every Puerto Rican grandma had these in the pantries.