[lit-ideas] Re: Leftovers
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:25:22 +0000 (GMT)
I'm a woman who went through an anti-leftover phase. Leftovers = having no
money + postwar austerity. Pre-phase, though, I'd loved bubble and squeak, and
I still do.
to recycle roast
> meat into stews and curries, to stuff last night's veggies
> into a tortilla, add hot sauce and call it good.
leftover veg fryups/"frittata"/"Spanish omelettes" are great (some of my
concoctions are pretty gruesome, actually... but I still eat them). I've never
really taken to (shades of childhood ugh) leftover English Curry, roast meat,
bright yellow curry powder, onions, cubed apples... .
Wartime was worse, though, surely? Woolton Pie, e.g.. I'd expect a rather
younger group -- Eighties on -- to be the most anti-leftover.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Wed, 3/11/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Leftovers
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 3 November, 2010, 17:08
> We are all of us judged sooner or
> later. Yesterday I learned a new measure of man.
> Two ladies of a certain age, by which I mean of course a
> deal older than I, were discussing husbands in terms
> generally of approval. (It was clear, however, that
> the bar had been set low on account of the flawed nature of
> the raw material.) By one measure both husbands
> failed: they could not be induced to eat "leftovers."
> Now I'm wondering how the husbands' aversion
> developed. To me it's second nature to recycle roast
> meat into stews and curries, to stuff last night's veggies
> into a tortilla, add hot sauce and call it good. Are
> there people on this list who have a philosophical objection
> to leftovers? Am I right in thinking that the Second
> World War's care and thrift re. feeding may be at the back
> of this...that men of the war generation associated
> "leftovers" with emergency, and so viewed fresh food as an
> indicator of freedom from want? I realize now...flawed
> being that I am...that I should have inquired at the source,
> but that option is not open, so I appeal to your wisdom and
> knowledge.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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