Thursday Postcard Hunt - Food and Drink
Food and Drink is October's theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt.
This first week will be Fruits and Vegetables.
1945 linen
1941
Aroostook is a county in Maine. It produces about 90% of Maine's potato crop, much of it "new" potatoes.
Cabbages sure grow big in Alaska! The only thing I like cabbage in is potstickers.
Passion fruit on a Postcrossing card from Brazil. The sender included a recipe for, not passion fruit, a "famous" drink made with Brazilian rum!
Next week: Sweets and/or Desserts
Yes, there are so many Florida oranges postcards! The Brazilian card is so pretty. I recently tried passionfruit juice and discovered I don't like it very much.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had an opportunity to try passionfruit or the juice. The fruit looks kind of... well, icky!
DeleteI am afraid there is not any vegetable I don't like to eat!
ReplyDeleteRegarding postcards, those vintage orange postcards are gorgeous. But the potatoes (so many!) and the cabbage (so big!) are really impressive.
Really! There are quite a few vegetables and fruit I won't eat!
DeleteWe used to have some old orange crates with the farm labels on them. When I was a kid. From back when the area I live in was more agricultural (which was before we moved to the area, way before I was born).
ReplyDeletePeople really like those crated now. But, you can't really keep everything in hopes it will become popular!
DeleteBeautiful cards. That cabbage is huge!
ReplyDeleteI found a lot of postcards from Alaska at the thrift store, and thought that was a funny one. Just worked for the theme!
DeleteI love these old postcards. We have a rich history where I live (Orange County) with all the orange and avocado crate labels. They've become very collectable.
ReplyDeleteI collect labels. Many of mine are local to here, pears. Harry and David is based here, and there are lots of pear orchards.
DeleteWow that potato field seem to go into infinity. Love new potatoes and indeed cabbage although I couldn't handle that giant.
ReplyDeleteI like new potatoes too. I wonder if a cabbage that large would even taste good. Sometimes overgrown vegetables don't.
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ReplyDeleteI grew up on stuffed cabbage, cole slaw, and health salad (a type of New York City style cole slaw dressed with vinegar, oil and sugar, made with shredded cabbage. Some people add cucumbers, green pepper and red onion, and you can buy it at deli counters. So that huge cabbage would have been most welcome in my house. You have to think that the souvenir from Florida would have been lighter than bringing back a crate of fruit! (Now, I'm craving some health salad...)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you know your cabbages! I don't recall my mother fixing cabbage at all. Her mother had a great garden (in Salinas, where anything grows), and she didn't grow cabbage. Maybe it's not as popular out here, or at least in my family!
DeleteI buy the bagged mix of cabbage and carrots already shredded up to make chicken potstickers once in a while. Other than that... no.
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