From: Ronald Gillen (gillen@nconnect.net)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 09:14:34 PST
Only during WWII was the sale of horse meat legal in New Jersey. Meat in the US was strictly rationed and the better cuts were scarce or non existant for the working class although they were available on the black market. As an adventurous young school child I was incredulous and I saved up my money to travel from New York City to Newark via the 'Hudson Tubes' train to see for myself. There I found the open air market with butchers cutting steaks from the hugh haunches of horse meat. I vividly remember the lines of people waiting and the purple colored meat, the butcher told me it tasted 'good' and he ate it himself. When I returned home I told no one, my grandmother would have had a fit if she knew that I would even consider eating horse meat. I do remembet craving red meat and it was not available, greasy rationed canned Spam was and it smelled bad and tasted horrible, God knows what parts of animals went into it. At the end of WWII the sale of horse meat was again prohibited. Regards, Ron Gillen Rg ========================== ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/rIBVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: timewitnesses-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/