My grandfather used to eat toast dipped in tea for breakfast. He had no teeth.
Today I dipped my buttered toast in coffee. I have all my teeth.
Speaking of my grandfather, who’s dead but was a memorable character:
- He had no teeth and didn’t wear dentures.
- He was missing 3 or 4 fingers.
- He often ate food straight from the can, unheated.
- He used to work in the lumber industry in the middle of Newfoundland, which accounts for his missing fingers and liking of cold food.
- His remaining fingers were stained puke yellow from smoking all his life, but he stopped cold-turkey a few years before he died.
- He could drink a bottle of beer in one swig.
- He was a phenomenal spoon player (from what I remember as a kid).
- He wore 1-piece long johns (union suit) as underwear – the kind that cover you from the neck down to your ankles and had a flap covering your ass.
- He was incredibly strong.
mine dipped bread in bacon grease….and ate with gusto
had all of his digits…coal mining…but spotty lungs
since dad was a denturist in the military and had a booming sideline business at home all my relatives had dentures or partials or whatever…and there was never a meal or gathering where someone did not choke gag or spew out some form of dental appliance
the rest pretty much similar….
Mine dipped his biscuits in coffee then ate a bite of fresh sliced onion. He ate onions 3 times a day.
He ate onions 3 times a day.
Why?