Well, going back to what you raised and what you had to buy to eat. You
had your chicken, you had your corn, you had your hogs, you had your
milk, so what you . . . and you had your garden and your raised
everything that your could. And the main things that you bought from the
store was like flour, not meal because you took your corn to the mill
and they grinded it and you put it in a can and you take a big sack,
maybe two and they grinded it and you put in a tin can and that would
keep weevils and things out of it. So, you bough—.you didn't have to buy
your eggs, 'cause you had your eggs from your chickens, you had ducks,
so you didn't have to anything about gettin duck eggs or anything. We
had ducks. We had geese and we bought cereal sometimes, but back then
you only had Corn Flakes and what was the other un daddy? (J. T., her husband, had just walked into the room) (It sounds
like he says Cream of Wheat, but Geraldine answers Shredded
Wheat) and grits . . . (J.T. corrects her "Cream of Wheat") Cream of Wheat and Grits. And see you bought rice if you wanted
any, you bought rice. Well, and see you made biscuits and you made
cornbread, so you didn't buy bread at all. You didn't buy bread.