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Women believed that meats, starches, sweets, and fats were the foods that best stoked the human furnace, the culinary antidote to drafty farmhouses in the winter cold. Preserved foods from the cellar helped round out the diet, but the cellar’s largess stretched only so far, and by late winter supplies were running alarmingly low. The result was “spring fever,” an annual affliction that came on just as the sap began to rise in the trees and that inspired a sprawling body of medical folklore. The ailment, it was thought, resided in the blood, which in spring grew thick with poisons, causing the pulse to slow. Its most telling symptoms were lethargy, muscular weakness, and a bad temper. ... They understood, however, that the best cure was the first crop of dandelions and spring onions, which were known to thin the blood and revitalize the body. Unknown to them, spring fever was in fact a vitamin deficiency, mostly likely scurvy, brought on by the winter diet.
From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
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Things sure don’t change, huh
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Both of them should not be taking care of growing kids I think
#Was thinking about Stan in a kiss the cook apron and started squeeing so I drew it...#Then I thought about the grunkles and their nutrition and the horror slowly set in#about 1. Stan's cholesterol and 2. Ford's attempt at fueling his meat body#Stan's three square meal of beef burger pancakes and bacon (I think he's a little allergic to vegetables)#and Ford I think stole like 1 metric tonne of stamina cubes from the “no time to eat” dimension and pops a cube and calls it a day#I think Mabel and Dipper don't like vegetables and they're so happy that Stan doesn't either (primary caretaker)#stan pines#stanley pines#ford pines#stanford pines#mabel pines#dipper pines
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I love how some players struggle to remember to feed Arthur and some players straight up don't feed him but man I have the opposite problem I keep accidentally overfeeding him lol
#I give that man three square meals a day and that's apparently too much#when my horse has a snack I give one to arthur too so nobody feels left out#wait that might be the problem#arthur isn't a horse#he does not need to eat horse portions#hmm#my bad#lol#mick squeaks#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#funnies#I love the duality in this fandom
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Local villain keeps corpse piece attached to his face and can't remember the last time he took a shower, more at 11
#bro he is so gross someone get this dude a competent parent#he needs a bath 3 square meals and a kiss on the forehead#shigaraki tomura#fanart#my art#bnha#bnha fanart#shiggy#dabishiga#tomura shiragaki#shigaraki
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An 18th C. sailors plate had a rim around called a fiddle. If you had dishonestly got more than your fair share the food would lap over the fiddle, hence the phrase ‘On the fiddle’ if you had enough, you’d had a ‘Square meal’ due to the shape used to stop your meal rolling around.
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Went to a food distribution center, and they gave us. A whole chicken. So i cooked it up, and i picked that shit as clean as i could (my favorite activity) and made chicken broth, but uh. We dont have a container for liquids, so uhmmm.
The chicken broth goes in the square container!
#the circle.... goes in the square hole.#anyways i ordered groceries i cannot wait to have milk and eggs and butter i can make MEALS. I CAN BAKE#god i want chickens. so i can never run out of eggs#polterghost#evp#what do i do with these bones now. i could just toss them but what if i can get more out of them#i would compost or something but unfortunately this is not my house and i dont know if the landlord would be chill with me mulching his yard
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Shiro redesign kinda sorta :)
#voltron#shiro#takashi shirogane#voltron shiro#sockdooe’s art#digital art#I love him a lot#he’s very important to me#I imagine this shiro is more like refined and healthy if that makes sense?#like this one eats 3 square meals a day and actually laughs#I feel like shiro straight out from galra is much more paler and essentially starved#like hes been drugged so much by the galra with quintessince that he had muscles but because of the lack of actual nutrition his body is#just crumbling without the constant quintessence#but in Voltron he actually eats#ignore his other arm I didn’t know what to do with it :/
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Like it or not the perfect malewife already exists, and his name is Senshi of Izganda
#delicious in dungeon#dungeon meshi#senshi#senshi of izganda#male wife#considered extremely fem for dwarves#turned mining tools and weapons into cooking instruments and utensils#cares a lot about others and making sure they eat three square meals a day and get good rest#obsessed about making sure the young-ins are taken care of#all he is missing is a frilly apron
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My wittle bebies
#anime#fanart#fairy tail#manga#lucy heartfilia#fairy tail lucy#nalu#natsu dragneel#fairy tail nalu#fairy tail natsu#natsu x lucy#every artist on here is so talented#it’s now a hobby of mine to stare at each square hourly#god tier artists#like seriously#I feel like I’ve been fed a 5 star meal when I see them all#nalu day 2023
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Ever hear about the WWI veterans that marched to DC for their promised bonus pay?
In 1924, Congress had voted (over Coolidge’s veto) for the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, which was meant to make up the difference between a soldier’s pay during wartime and what he would have made in civilian life. The maximum a veteran could hope to receive was $625. The catch, however, was that this bonus was not scheduled to be paid until 1945. For men hunkered down in the trenches of the Great Depression, that seemed a long time to wait; $600 could make a huge difference to the life of a hungry and jobless veteran. Some Democratic politicians agreed.
Since 1929, Congressman Wright Patman of Texas had campaigned for a bill to amend the Compensation Act to pay out the bonuses immediately. By early 1932, it looked like the bill might finally come up for a vote, against the strenuous opposition of the president, almost all Republicans, and even many Democrats (including Governor Roosevelt). Portland’s veterans’ association asked all its members to sign petitions and write to politicians to help secure the vote. Walter Waters was a little more canny about the ways of Washington: “Our only hope was in following the successful tactics of Big Business; when its representatives wanted something from Congress, they went to it personally and said so.” He stood up in veterans’ meetings and suggested that Portland veterans send a delegation to Washington to directly lobby senators and congressmen. Initially, the men were unconvinced and trusted their government to do the right thing. But in Washington, politicians from both parties saw the bonus bill as a license to print money without the backing of gold or bond issues. On May 6, 1932, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to permanently shelve the bonus bill. Four days later, Portland’s veterans agreed to send a delegation of 250 men under strict military discipline to the nation’s capital. That same day, they headed down to the rail yards to embark on their journey across the United States. ...
Meanwhile, in Texas, Florida, Maine, Michigan, California, and dozens of other states, thousands of veterans suffering through hard times had read about the Oregon marchers, and they, too, hit the road for the nation’s capital. By May 29, when Walter Waters and his men finally made it to Washington, more contingents were on their way, some as large as 1,500 men, with a few wives and children in tow as well.
From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
#bonus marchers#veterans#wwi#wwi veterans#jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe#a square meal#great depression#us history
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This is a very interesting thing to read about America in the 1930s, because definitely nowadays we wouldn’t ask police to do this work (nor would we want/trust them too, maybe). There are civic employees for that, and definitely places other than police stations. I could even imagine using a fire station maybe? Not police.
And obviously back in the day there was probably a lot more trust in the police (at least with white people). This was before the 60s and all that. But I’m wondering if at least some amount of trust is tied intrinsically to things like these civic duty type activities, instead of just a singular focus on law enforcement. And, as an extension of that, when did the role of the police shift hard into fully law enforcement? And when did trust start falling? Maybe that also goes towards the 60s, when they were used to suppress civil unrest. And probably it’s tied a lot to trust in government as well, regarding things like the Vietnam war.
This maybe is a weird turn in subject for me to think on while reading a book about food in America around the Great Depression.
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friendly fire on @divorcedwife of her dark urge em, most tormented girl on the beach
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That TikTok that’s like “I could have raised him right, I could have loved him.” that’s how I feel about Audrey Horne.
#tp rewatch#which like I’m a 23 year old man but still Jesus Christ somebody needs to feed that girl 3 square meals a day#help her with her math homework pack her lunch tuck her into bed etc
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The clans are enormous!! what the hell are they eating?!
Funny Answer: if they can catch it. they will eat it. this includes seagulls. The only exceptions are animals that are actively poisonous/venomous like Jellyfish or Sea Urchins, but honestly they still might try.
#pkm mer au#there is a less funny answer and thats sometimes they dont get three square meals if you catch my drift#especially now that they have to 'share' with Jubilife
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Only Friends Episode 8 | Sand as Freddie Mercury
Christ alive the combination of Sand in this outfit and his I've-had-enough-of-all-this-shit aura he was channelling this episode was deadly. Can they please put him in wifebeaters more often?
#only friends#only friends the series#ofts#sand#first kanaphan#first looking like a 3 course meal#HELP#no wonder ray couldn't help but grab his face and kiss him square on the mouth as soon as he laid eyes on him that night#that effing arm band has me under arrest#THE ARM BAND
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