Men unable to eat their crusts, or unworthy of it?

[In The Sticks]

My father was from Oklahoma. He could turn nearly anything into a sandwich. Always with mayo.

Interesting stuff.

You always wonder "why?"

Is it regional, or cultural, or just something someone picked up from the store on a whim one day and then it's incorporated into lineage.

 

[JaniceM]

Interesting stuff.

You always wonder "why?"

Is it regional, or cultural, or just something someone picked up from the store on a whim one day and then it's incorporated into lineage.

I always figured eating habits were more regional than anything else. One Southern cookbook, for example, has a note from its editor after a recipe telling people they can adjust the recipe and use butter instead of mayonnaise 'if they're Yankees.'

 

[Jim W.]

When I was a kid, I would make a fried egg sandwich as a late night snack.

This involved frying bacon, cracking a couple of eggs into the pool of undrained grease, breaking the yolks with a fork, and then splashing the hot grease over the top to cook it rather that flipping the egg. I can still see it!

Then I would fish the eggs out, lay them on a slice of that cheap white bread, put another slice on top, press them together real hard so the grease got absorbed by them and you could see the eggs right through the sopping bread, as though it were an article of come-get-me Coronary® brand negligee.

You can't do that with whole wheat.

I think I felt a couple of arteries clog up a little just reading about it!!!

 

[In The Sticks]

I think I felt a couple of arteries clog up a little just reading about it!!!

Back then, I would have 4 poached eggs on toast as a late night snack
I weighed 120# when I graduated high school.

Believe it or not, I've recently had vascular screenings done and there's nary a trace of the eggs or of the bacon fat.