Whenever they hear of a people's hardships, this group is especially kind in their comments. They know how hard life can be, and would not dare criticize someone's struggle meals.

“We do such cruel things with potatoes foreigners can’t even imagine” -hold my potato

I have the letters my husband's grandmother wrote during the depression. She was in Montana as was her sister who was not as well off! Grandmother canned peaches and sent them by train for her sister, when the canned peaches arrived the jars had broken. Her sister in the letter laments the loss of those peaches. Also, my husband's father was delaying going to university to raise pigs to pay for his schooling. The pig market crashed and he did not make the money he needed.

Yes, Mehboob. My parents were children during the depression, and we grew up hearing exactly that about appreciating what one had

As someone who grew up poor a lot of these dishes I am familiar with. I love to try foods born of necessity as this is how lobster was eaten before the early 20th century.things the rich enjoy now were once poor people food here in the states.

I love watching this. My Mothers parents who immigrated from Sicily to the USA as young children survived the great depression by eating food that is now considered gourmet to some. My grandpa also ran a hot dog stand to make extra money. Definitely was never told of any of the foods that were just tried.

Mustafa said that was the "burnt part of the pot" 🤣🤣 I love him so much!!❤ And I think he likes that Peanut Butter bread. He took two nibbles.

We're in a depression of plenty right now, as we speak. We have everything but it is too expensive to live.

My parents were children during the Depression. They spoke of havinvg bread in coffee, sprinkled with a little sugar, and if it was special occasion the coffee would have a little milk in.

My mother was born the last year of the Great Depression, my father was born a year earlier. My mother grew up in poverty, in the projects in San Francisco during WWII. Her father worked in the Navy Shipyards as a painter. I will never forget how my grandmother saved things like rubber bands, and was very frugal. My mother liked nice things as an adult, my father was a good provider. I had no idea how spoiled rotten I was until I moved out on my own at 17, a few years after my father died. The way these wise folks had nothing but kind things to say brought me to tears once again.

Watching this video really tugs my heart strings. Food has gotten so expensive recently and I’ve just been complaining and complaining about how I can’t afford what I’m used to. Watching this video and hearing the peoples humble comments about the food has made me think from a new perspective. I am still so blessed to have access to the foods I can afford. 🙏

I don't care if I can afford the finest of foods, I'll always love potato pancakes. My mother made them from leftover mashed potatoes, but I love the grated potato pancakes as well.

They should try "pouding chômeur" (unemployment pudding), which is a traditional French Canadian dessert made with ingredients that used to be cheap. Today the price of ingredients has gone up, though. Brown sugar, maple syrup and eggs are not cheap anymore.

I wish you guys would bring Kastoori and Parvati back. I miss them ❤️

They must be really thankful for the amount of information you provide these people 😍❤

I would suggest doing an episode of gross 1950s jello salads but NO I wouldn't want to see my beloved Reactistanis go through that!

I remember an elderly friend of mine who has since passed used to make Kasha Varniskes. She said it tasted good now that she could make it just because she wanted to, not because there wasn't anything else.

"We would think of the kids first." Sadly, many of the poorest families during the depression sold some of their children to feed the others or sold them all to wealthier homes so they would (hopefully) be better cared for. It brought shame upon them, but there wasn't much else they could do, as there was no work available for so, so many.

Thank you for creating videos like this. We're enjoying and at the same time learning. 💗

Let's make "Bismillah" happen 😃 Love this phrase

Wacky Cake is considered a ww2 cake since that is when it came out. Depression Cake came out in 1918 during the last year of ww1 was heavily eaten during the Great Depression.

Thanks for having them try potatoe pancake I remember recommending them I'm glad they liked them 😊

That where he said "we're both ruthless with potatoes" and the part after. I can co-sign that too. Lol.

When it comes to potatoes, Americans probably have as many methods of preparing them as y'all do! Let's see... Boiled, baked, twice baked, scalloped, au gratin, potato cakes or fritters, fried (such as French fries), home fries, tater tots, creamed, mashed (or "smashed"), potato soup, dumplings, bread and potato salad... Oh my goodness! It's getting difficult to think of everything I've either seen or made myself from or with potatoes. 😂 It's definitely a versatile root vegetable and to be honest, I don't know many people who don't like some type of potato dish. I have met a few, but it's VERY few... at least of the people that I know! Fun, informative and very entertaining video, as always! Thanks team! 😊💛

Potatoes are asking for it. Too tasty. Show no mercy 😂🍽️

Excellent video guys 👏 I always enjoy listening to Mr. Mustafa his whit and wisdom are a blessing.

most Great Depression era foods are not bad even to today's standards as they are all simple but filling. i say most cause there's the infamous dandelion salad. Also a trivia about Great Depression era food is that Kraft Mac and Cheese, a popular instant macaroni and cheese item to this day, was made and most available during the Great Depression

well done, thanks to this channel I've heard of peanut butter bread and I'll try that recipe at home.

4:10 , " It looks like a burger to me", someone has some explaining to do giving that lovely woman triangle-shaped burgers

My grandmother used to make crazy cake for me when I was a kid . I loved it .

Great video!

I wasn’t born yet during that period and Thanks guys for doing this video. I have zero knowledge about this and let alone knowing what is Depression Era

Great video! Love the historic ones, very interesting to hear what they thought of hard ships. I'm sure there are examples of times like that all over the world, unfortunately.

Such truly wonderful human beings.

Let them try swedish food!! Or swedish candy

This reminds me a little of the time my family and I moved to a new state and barely made a living. Finding a new place to live and finding work for my dad was a blessing. As a child, I did not realize for a long time we were poor. For many years, we were given canned food and nonperishables and thought it was normal. I came to like chili con carne. We may not have been suffering from any Depression, but it did feel strange when we became financially stable enough to not require charity food any longer. Suddenly, we were buying fresh food. I found myself missing the canned food for a long time, ha ha.

Potato pancakes are still somewhat popular. I think they were very kind today because of the history.

I didn't know that Wacky Cake was a depression era food! My mom made it all the time and I still make it on occasion. It is mixed in the pan it bakes in and my family loves it. Simple, dense chocolate cake.

The one guy, when talking about potatoes, sounds like Bubba saying, "there's millions of ways you can make shrimp." 🍤🦐🥔🍟

Wait!!!! Did Mama like ALL OF THEM?!!!!!

I made cookies recently just peanut butter sugar and an egg real quick and good I’ve also made that peanut butter bread and it was pretty good too

My grandparents (mother’s parents) were young adults during the depression. They worked on a potato farm. They talked about only having potatoes to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Wacky cake sound like it has a certain herb in it.😉😁

yo, depression cake is my fave. i love it. And potato pancakes are still the best pancakes

Y'all eating my most favorite potato cake. My late grandma made this all the time. Because I begged her. We mixed it with, 2 eggs 1/2 or 2 cups of flour. And peel and shredded potatoes mixed well. My grandma used 4 potatoes because she knows how much I love leftovers. She put black pepper and salt and garlic seasoning. Yummy.

I just had potato pancakes three days ago. Still love them.

The Depression mainly effected the USA. In Britain and other countries; during and after WW2, there was food rationing. Maybe you could try out some of those recipes.

A popular Depression food my grandparents had as kids was cabbage and bacon. Bacon was cheap to get at the time, so they took some and cut it up in bite size pieces and cooked it, took some cabbage that was also cheaply available and sliced it up. Put the chopped cabbage in the pot that the bacon is cooking in and occasionally stir till the cabbage is fully cooked, and serve! My grandparents passed it down to my dad and siblings when they hit rough times in the 60’s, and my dad cooked it when we hit rough times when i was a kid. Nowadays, since bacon is now expensive, its a special treat.

We love the Tribal People Family! From the forests and oceans of California~

And within the last 25 years I’ve been through some hard periods and potato pancakes are pretty good just mash up potatoes and some onions garlic fry ‘em up don’t cost a lot

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches were another depression era food for children... My father grew up on them and loved them... He passed that love of them on to me...I know they sound weird but, they are delicious.

We make poor man’s meal. Hotdogs and potatoes. We add onions and cabbage sometimes. But it’s good and a filling frugal meal to feed a big or small family for breakfast or lunch

What lovely gracious people

Mama should be happy the food couldn't be more all natural 😊🤫😉

I still make a form of wacky cake that was taught to me.

Whoever picked the cast & concept did well. 🙏

I actually made a Wacky Cake with my kid a couple of days ago since they're learning about the Great Depression. It isn't a "delicious" cake, but it is surprisingly good for the ingredients

Extreme respect to you all. First world nations of today simply don’t know these hardships. You are intelligent to see what gifts of god can bring in hard times

..This was awesome and informative, but plz let's give Fam forks next time-it's easier! ❤️

Hi, everybody! 👋

As a kid my Mom still made depression food she ate as a kid and I still make. (1) diced potatoes and hotdogs fried. (2) 'Slop' elbow noodles w/ canned tomatoes, grnd. beef and canned sweet corn. Still taste awesome!

I was thinking, how about some good old country food for them to try? You could start with Fried Green Tomatoes with Ranch dressing to dip in, then move on to maybe some Chicken Fried Steak, then finish it off with some Sugar Cream Pie. That would be fun! Or how about typical American cookout food? Throw down on some BBQ Beef Short Ribs, Potatoe Salad, some Grilled Green Beans, Cole Slaw, and some grilled Pineapple slices coated in brown sugar so they caramelize and then throw a sccop of vanilla ice cream on top! Good stuff!

Haven't seen lady VIP for a while

1:56 Mama is talking about Maple tree.

My great grandparents lived on opossum and potatoes.

the depression is a history lesson for most people. My mother lived in Eastern Montan, ate bacon grease on toast sandwiches, radish and butter sandwiches, and lots and lots of eggs because they had their own chickens............ potatoes 7 days a week, meat once a week........she wore hand-me-down shoes with cardboard to fill the holes, and hand-me-down clothes....... and ate asparagus they picked out of the local slough. For Christmas, the big treat in their stocking was......... an orange. My mother always put an orange in our stockings at Christmas as homage to the Depression and her own upbringing, hoping we'd understand where our family started and where we ended up. And we did, and still put an orange in our stockings, understanding that these people sacrificed so much for an orange for each child. The United States in 1929-1939 was a 3rd world country with millions of people eeking out a miserable existence in their little towns all over America. So when you hear whining 20 year olds complaining about 1st world technology problems......... I know from the source what actual hardships are.

Mehboob and manzoor's duo is the duo we all needed 👏

My father went through the depression but fortunately he was in a foreign with his grandparents so they had milk from the cows grade from the fields and a basic diet the war was on and they needed oil for the war so they didn’t have a lot of oil

We eat potatoes pancakes hot with sour cream and chives but the potatoes are shredded with carrots & cabbage if you like.

another depression era thing was using dandelion - leaves, flowers and everything for salads and other things. and very healthy.

Italian American stuff back then was pea and pasta lentils and pasta ,potatoes and eggs peppers and eggs

My grandparents suffered during the Great Depression. The era was so saddening that they rarely spoke of it, because they wanted to enjoy their lives without reliving the bad memories. Thank you so much for making this video. This keeps the memory of my grandparents' strength and fortitude alive. 😊🤗

hi reactistan

Shoofly pie is a good one, and tasty!

There are other more common depression era foods that have lingered with Americans all this time. There are Pies made out of wild fruits, casseroles, macaroni and cheese, salads made with foraged greens like dandelions, Hoover Stews, Egg Drop Soup, Chocolate Creme Pie and Rice Pudding.

7:19 was my favorite part of this episode 😆😆

admin plsssss try them filipino food..

That potato pancake looks good😋

Love seeing that the people on this channel are more excepting of trying untraditional foods 😂

Water pie makes me cry. Kind of.

Hold on - peanut butter bread?? I need to look that up, right freaking now.

2:55 "Ssssssssss" translates to: "Bismillah" lol

My father and aunt were born shortly before the GD and that time was their early childhood. They were very fortunate and always had food. My dad told me Grandmother would make big ham sandwiches for the men who came to the kitchen door asking for food and they would eat them in four or five giant bites. They also did yard work and other heavier work for a nickel, about the cost of a loaf of bread at the time.

Tomato soup=ketchup packets and hot water. Maybe if you were lucky some free crackers. That was more of a city thing.

Peanut butter bread is my common breakfast food

Maybe show them how to make a water pie

OMG! What a mean trick! 🤣😂🤣😂 How could you give these people Depression era foods to try? Their nice comments are just to be polite. 🤣😂🤣😂

and they thank Allah .... I ❤️ that 🥳🥳

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Don't hurt Mehboob, he is a good man! I love you all, and thank you, I think I will make some potato pancakes now!

Please try jollibee

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"We do such cruel things to potatoes!" 😀🤣🥔

I'm from the American Midwest, and we are similarly harsh on our potatoes.

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All uncle thinks about is bread $$$ lol

Happy to see you guys but in the context of the current events thus is a bad omen 😂😂😂

The story of Stone Soup is the story of the depression

They should try MREs from America, that would be a great cultural shock

"When depressed, we add too much salt to the curry." Similar saying in my country "When you fall in love and wants to get married so bad, your cooking will be more salty"