Snacks as a kid
What was something you liked to eat as a snack after school? In the fall, Dad bought apples. I think he said that a bushel of apples was $3.00. ($20/peck in Chicagoland 40 years later) He traveled through apple country on his way to Wayland from Maynard and he’d buy a bushel of apples often (not quite weekly?) A bushel is a lot of apples. Hungry? Eat an apple. Thirsty? First drink a “Turkey” glass of water. The Turkey glass was enormous - 24 oz? Then you can have a glass of Tang. We had saltine crackers with butter (margarine, we didn’t start eating butter again until Winnie joined the family. Butter was too expensive). Once in a while, someone would buy twinkies for snacks. They come 10 to pack. 4 kids, 2 days of lunches. 2 “extra,” The extra never made it very far. I remember Winnie made chocolate chip cookies to take camping one year and hid them in the cold oven in a plastic bowl so no one would eat them. For some reason someone pre-heated the oven in the morn