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To: cosmicforce who wrote (54648)	8/16/2000 4:10:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

My mother ate "mock apple pie", too. She also grew up in the Depression. Throughout our childhood, we always got a navel orange and a big Delicious apple in our Christmas stockings, along with toys and candy, because these were such treats when she was growing up. When it came time to stuff my own kids' stockings, she was a little shocked that I did not follow the tradition. I had to point out that there was a bowl full of navel oranges and different kinds of apples always available in the kitchen, so it just wouldn't have the same impact. Martin Amis, the son of Kingsley Amis, describes in his autobiography the time that the family was given four bananas during World War II, and how his father ate all four of them, and did not offer any of them to the children, who sat there watching him savor every bite. Since then I've never read anything Kingsley Amis wrote. My mother remembers putting yellow dye into margerine during World War II, you couldn't buy butter and the margerine companies were not allowed to color the margerine so it was white but they could give you a capsule of yellow dye to mix in it yourself.