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"Sunday-go-to-meeting"
Five or six years ago the New United Molokan Church was built on our block. I had never heard the term "Molokan" before this; as I understand it, it applies to a "Spiritual Christian" sect that originated in Russia centuries ago and was/is considered unorthodox because they consume dairy products during their various fasts. The term itself, "Molokan", translates variously into English as "milk drinker" or "dairy eater". Apparently they hold services according to their own schedule rather than every Sunday, and as their congregation has grown the church's rather sizeable parking lot has proven to be insufficient so many of the congregants park on the streets. So whenever our street is lined with cars my first assumption, regardless of the day of the week, is that it must be Molokan "Go-to-meeting" day unless there are obvious signs that someone on our block is having a party."Sunday-go-to-meeting"
New here and I apologise if this has been mentioned before but I said “Pip pip old bean” to a chap the other day and he looked at me as if I was speaking a weird language.
Matt
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From another time, when food was enormous precious. Translated from German:
"At our home will be eaten, what has to go!"
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Or, as somebody said, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."“One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
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Mel Blanc.
What one gets from reading period books, watching period movies and studying history is that "middle class" Americans - living in cities, with jobs like bookkeeper, secretary and retail sales were struggling to get enough food in the '30s.
While I'll get blowback, I'm going to say it anyway, it's different today. As food has become much cheaper and our gov't support programs larger, the scale of the problem is no where near as big today. With some thought and effort - and judicious buying - I fed myself with no problem on minimum wage pay (and just above minimum wage pay) in the '80s.
Yes, there is hunger in America (I'm not arguing otherwise), but I am pointing out that it was a much broader problem for people in the '30s who had what today are jobs that pay enough for one to eat - get a full amount of calories. And I'm only talking about people with jobs.
I think this, in part, explains why there were so many expressions back then that touched on ways to stretch a food budget.
I use 'Geeze Louise' a lot.