Christmas During the Great Depression
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I just had a random thought; are we the most sauce-based generation? I open my fridge and the door is just different sauces; ketchup, mustard, mayo, siracha, honey mustard, teriyaki–we aren't alone, are we? And what sauce from history goes best on french fries?
My mother was born in 1936, so I grew up with Grandparents and a LOT of great Uncles and Aunts who grew up during this time. Most of the men served in WW2 of course but the women really remembered all of the Great Depression and food especially. All of them hoarded food their whole lives, they were never stingy..quite the opposite. I always thought they were obsessed with food and big quantities at every meal..until I was old enough to understand. The best family ever, I miss them all.
Merry Christmas Max and Jose!
9:20 – Monopoly the board game was deliberately created as a statement satirizing capitalism. Its popularity spread so much because a lot of people got the joke.
Out of pure curiosity, how many Pokémon plushies do you own? I see a different one in each video…
what you have there is Blancmange with extra bits.
Oh, nooooo! Max, you poor thing! I hope you had a lovely Benadryl nap, at least. 🫣
Usually hearing the poems people used to write is very comical but the one from that Christmas card was actually really good. Thoughtful and added some humour to a hard time
Oh, Max! I hope you're okay. ❤
Do you cook for Christmas and if so, do you try different dishes each year?
hey Max, have a holly jolly christmas
I miss getting an orange and nuts in my stalking
I think this would have been less expensive because it is made of gelatin rather than lots of butter and sugar and brandy. The fruits and nuts would have made it taste Christmasy but it was much less rich.
Oh wow, Max. That story about your Nana and the oranges in the stocking sounds exactly like my Grandpa's story about oranges in stockings. My mom continues that tradition with us every Christmas.
Happy holidays!!! To you and la familia!! 🌻☃️🎄🌎🌍🌏
The letter to Santa where the little girl hopes her friend gets the pj's he needs to stay warm… God I teared up.
… ITS NOT CHRISTMAS YET
Ok, I'm a little blown away. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, our stockings always contained the same things every year.
I would hear about presents in stockings, my in laws always did presents in stockings. But as a child, it was always
An apple
A banana
An orange
Nuts in shell
Candy
Both sets of my grandparents got married in the early part of the depression, and I guess that's where the tradition came from. I never knew.
Maushold !!!😍😍😍
You becoming allergic to egg whites heightens my fear to developing an allergy in the future! I hope you're alright and feeling better
Your personal sacrifice in pursuing these historical recipes is very appreciated- and your moment of realization all the more poignant for the kinship I felt. I am also often in danger around this time of the year- I'm allergic to artificial sweeteners and if I had a penny for every time I've taken a bite of some dessert right before being informed that it was made with sugar-free ingredients, well, I'd have a tidy fortune.
Thank you. Ceramic Christmas Village aficionados unite! Also, as always, the video freakin' rocked.
Monopoly was actually originally intended to highlight the evils of, well, monopolies. It’s has since become the greatest game ever made which shall never be surpassed. I actually collect themed Monopoly games.
My grandma only had 1 pair of shoes for school during the Great Depression. She only wore them during winter; she went barefoot in other seasons.
Merry Christmas to you and family.
Someday you should look into the history of the game Monopoly. The original version had an option of winning through collaboration, but people decided it was "too boring" to be nice.
As someone who lives every day taking benedryl 3-4 times a day, I feel you pain Mr. Miller.
oh no! after he tried it.
An orange and an apple were always in our stockings
Being born in the mid 1960s in North Carolina we got citrus every year in our stockings. Then in high school as a member of the Key Club we would have citrus sales as a fundraiser, always between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Monopoly, as I understand it, was invented to show the evils of capitalism.
Mom had a cardboard Christmas village (I think it originally came from Montgomery Wards) that she would put out every year. And we'd have an orange and an apple in our stockings. Mom was born in the 1930s.
My Daddy said he didn't know what they were talking about, in Appalachia it was a normal way of life. He was born in 1922 and my mom in 1924. So they were old enough to know what was going on.
My man is suffering for content 💀
I am absolutely in awe of the penmanship on that homemade card. That's a skill that's almost dead nowadays…
Growing up on a farm outside New Richmond, Ohio, food and money was always tight. Gramma always gave us a big Navel orange and a Bartlett pear in our stocking. After I got married and we had kids, I gave both to our kids as they grew up, and our oldest still does the same for his two boys. It's become a sort of family tradition, and one I hope gets continued.
Showed this to my mom and she said "Aw, he took down the Pokemon and replaced them with some generic mice!" so I had to enlighten her lol
The thrift in this recipe is that it doesnt take heat. Heating costs money, but cold was free in most of the USA (just place it outside)
I think your sense of humour is under praised. I'll be watching merrily, lulled into the most relaxed and receptive state by the gentle cadence of your speech, and suddenly a hysterical zinger will absolutely send me. Thanks, Max. For the relaxing and the laughter.
oh no! I hope you're okay.. it did look really good, though.
We love your show! I recently got your book from the library and am eager to try out of few things. Thanks for sharing this really interesting recipe and the history of Christmas during the ‘30s – really fascinating. Where do you find your source material? I’d love to be able to scroll through some of that and just read some of those transcripts – aunt(y?) Sammy sounds fascinating.
It really is comforting (and hilarious) to watch others do the exact same dumb stuff I do, as someone who also discovered an allergy as an adult. Happily, accidentally, eating the thing you're allergic to because you forgot you have to be careful about food now.
I assume the main reasons it counts as a cheaper alternative, is that it saves on fuel prices cause you don't need to cook it as much, and it also doesn't have half a bottle of booze fed into while you're making it.
My parents got me when they were already older we still use those Lametta