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- Pass to the right
- Two ears, etc.
- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
- Did Mrs. Landis
- Wait. a. minute. here --
- Mrs. Landis
- Shades of Belushi
- Cranberry ... the condiment and the color
- The old man
- Plumbing?
- Contemporary Report
- After Grace ...
- Reservation, please.
- Deliver Us From Shrinkflation, Amen
- No crying over spilled milk.
- Who Is Missing?
- I remember the glasses
- Just down the street from the Dome bar
- A Woman's Work is Never Done.
- Table manners
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Nulaidies: 1942
January 1942. "Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Packing eggs into cartons." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Egg Carton a Canadian Invention
In 1911 Joseph Coyle, a newspaper editor in Smithers, British Columbia invented the egg carton. Crack open this link for the full story.
Likely some double yolkers there
Those Large Specials look like really big eggs. Nothing in the large category is that size anymore. Today's jumbos might match them.
Germs
No gloves, no hair nets. People were tougher back then. I guess they had to be, riddled with food-borne diseases as they were.
To be on the safe side
Better walk on eggshells with those two.
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