Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Yesterday at Walmart I was ringing up out a customer, and she started telling me about how worried she was about the price of groceries, since paying for them was getting too hard. She had told her grandmother that if things got worse, they would have to start living on squirrel meat. But her grandmother made her worry even more.

"During the Great Depression, we couldn't find any squirrels," said her Grandma. "We couldn't find crows or possums or anything. People just ate them all, and they were gone. All we could find was some some  Poke Sallet Weed."

The customer's eyes widened. She repeated, "There weren't any squirrels. All they found was poke sallet and they would go to that place and get it."

Things can get that bad, even here in the U.S. - they have, before.

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