Question about the whole "bread bags" conversation...

[Wounded Bear]

Didn't Iowa farm mothers bake their own bread? Where did the bread bags come from?

[HappyMe]

1. Not necessarily.

There's plenty of work to do on a farm that might not leave time for baking bread.

[katsy]

2. Confusing

Also, was it organic, whole wheat or gluten free?

I only dress my kids shoes in organic walnut and cranberry bread. The bags are wider and glide smoothly over their boots.

[jwirr]

3. Right after the depression you would have been right. But by the 1980s which is when Joni is talking

about many were buying their bread in stores.

[hollysmom]

4. was talking to a republican who claimed she wore plastic bags over her shoes - but had

to remind her that plastic bags did not appear until the 60's when she would have been older. I also mentioned the little red boots that everyone wore over the shoes that were pretty cheap, that is what I wore.She was a child in the 50's and claims her family could not afford red boots, My father worked in a factory her father was a doctor - republicans bull shit all the time.

[fredamae]

5. The "Ernst Farm Compost" has gotten

quite deep.
Even here, on the West Coast--us kids used bread bags to make it easier to don/remove Galoshes. I grew up on a farm where castration was a common thingy--no big deal, we butchered, milked, gardened. I had to go shovel cow manure from the barn Before school as did Most of my school mates..so WTF is the "big deal" over her experiences? I feel no "special gooey" kinship, empathy, compassion or connection to her for Any of that.
She's a US Senator-I'd advise her to rise to that honor and drop the rest of the silly nonsense.

[2naSalit]

6. And, plastic bags

are STILL used in the medical world for getting things like TEDS on the legs of patients and other hard to medical devices.

[jmowreader]

7. Expired bread is sold as animal feed

It might be a little crunchy, but your cattle and hogs really don't care - and it is a good source of nutrition. The Franz bakery thrift store down the street from my house will sell you a whole trolley cart of expired bread for twelve dollars. There are at least a hundred bread bags on one cart.