Just a piece of bread and butter please
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325728)
Rockingham, Australia
May 16, 2017 2:28am CST
My sister and brother are twins and were born in 1938. My mother had no idea she was having twins until the first baby had been delivered and the doctor said ‘wait a minute, I think there's a second baby’. Things were a bit different in those days.
Every year the local community would organise a Christmas tree. Every family would make the effort to attend with their children. There would be a tree, some organised games, food to eat and eventually Father Christmas would give out the presents.
Many of these children rarely attended any social functions and my siblings were two that seldom ate anywhere but in the home. When they were five or six they attended one of these Christmas parties.
Faced with an array of fancy cakes and all sorts of goodies, my sister sat quietly, a bit bamboozled by it all. When one of the mothers asked her what she’d like to eat, she replied ‘Just a piece of bread and butter please’.
As I said earlier, things were a bit different back then.
The photo is of my siblings.
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
17 May 17
@workathomefan I was born February 24, same sign as your Mom.
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@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
17 May 17
My mother was born February 27,1951 like you born in 1951 lady duck.
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 May 17
What a nice story Judy! I love hearing about people's lives and stories of growing up. Are your siblings older or younger than you?
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@rebelann (111164)
• El Paso, Texas
16 May 17
I love butter especially if it's on a slice of bread fresh from the oven.
Oh wow, have any of your sisters had twins?
I did hear once that twins usually skipped a generation.
I can't imagine what those times would have been like in Australia, I know here in the US they were trying to recover from a major depression.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
18 May 17
@JudyEv Well I had developed a liking for Bread and Jam, apart from an Indian sweet food named "Halwa"(made from sweetened Indian Semolina)
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
16 May 17
can you imagine if they were triplets? would it be like, "could that be a third in there?"
are you the youngest then?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 May 17
What an adorable photo !!! Life was simple then and I often wish it was still that way.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
17 May 17
@JudyEv I would not want to go back and be young again - once was enough.
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@JudyEv (325728)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 May 17
I wouldn't want to be a young person nowadays but I guess in many ways it's just what you're used to. Simple is always good.
@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
18 May 17
@JudyEv Yes parents are so much worried and sometimes get so hyper too.
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@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
16 May 17
That's the same year my sister was born. My mother once made us cups of tea and then she presented bread with butter, topped with some sugar and cinnamon. I looked at it and asked, "What's this?" She told me to try it and it was SO good! Then she told me that growing up, her mother would make that for her and her brothers for dessert. It's all they could afford. I was truly amazed but I loved it! So simple, yet so good.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
16 May 17
Nice,beautiful photo.Very touching story too.
Simple and good days gone by.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
16 May 17
I'm told that I also was a modest child. Sometimes my mother was embarrassed when I declined a treat. The times were harsh in post-war GDR (German Democratic Republic). I should have been grateful to be offered a sweet or an apple or whatever it was.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
16 May 17
What cute kids! Wow, what a surprise for your parents. I suppose that today's imaging reveals twins before they are born.
That is cute.... just a piece of bread and butter. What a sweet and unselfish kid.
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