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WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
Thrudd:
Simple substitution
--- Quote from: heyjames4 on 11 Jul 2018, 10:22 ---A: I've never had raisins. SNAILS
B: Then you're in for a treat!
--- End quote ---
I did and they were not.
As for Raisins, as a kid I remember having them in Stollen and oranges were also something to be anticipated at Christmas.
Bread was by the tray and it was the long past the best before date but rodent and fungus free.
For my dad supporting a family with 4 preschool kids on a self employed income that was dependent of clients actually paying their bills on time if at all was a challenge.
My mum tried the best she could to give us as close to a middle class life as she could.
The house was clean but sparse and we had the utilities cut off in winter a couple of times - St Vincent De Paul helped fix that issue back then [it was illegal for the utilities to do that] - those deadbeat clients aka the 1%.
The SallyAnn was the place for clothing and pretty much anything you could get away with used.
Outside of Christmas gifts received from overseas relatives, we bought our own toys from there with what little we made on our own doing chores around the neighborhood.
If you are raised in an environment where EVERYTHING was scrimped and saved it is very very hard to not always look at the cost of things even if you do much better latter on in life.
Undrneath:
I think the raisins are an allegory for the difference between poverty and privilege. It really could have been anything, but raisins just fit into the "bread week" theme easily.
Y:
I remember other kids had little packets of raisins as if it were candy. They gave me a few raisins.(I wasn't poor) Though we had raisins at home, like in muesli (oats), and if we were lucky raisin bread. My favorite ice cream is Rum Raisins (Malaga), which I discovered back in my university dorm, the ice cream man even gave me his number as I was a good customer.
zmeiat_joro:
Milayna: "even if they aren't physically abusive, they work their way into every part of your life so when they remove themself from it they leave a hole. It's not like a relief that hes gone and you can get back to your usual stuff in peace - there IS no usual stuff" -- that. That's my dad.
"People like that are the worst. You gotta structure your life around managing them and even then it's just to reduce the excuses they can find to blow up. They're too entitled to ever change."
My dad.
zmeiat_joro:
"there IS no usual stuff"
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