My late father, artist Tom Schenk, painted the image featured on this (undated) postcard; he did quite a few paintings for the Ford Times magazine at one point in his career. Strange to come across this cheerful image just when the the US auto industry is in such dire straits. He remembered fondly the Model T’s from his childhood on the farm in Ohio.
I didn’t imagine it…
June 5, 2008 at 4:03 pm (food, usa)
Have you ever been mid-story, and as you are speaking, the whole thing sounds so implausible that you begin to doubt that it ever occurred? This happened to me yesterday when I was telling two colleagues about the existence of a Mock Apple Pie in which the filling consists of Ritz crackers. As a dual-citizen, I have a good line in tales of “funny American customs”, but this threatened to veer into the realm of fantasy. Could there really have been such a recipe? Enter the ever-useful Internet with the answer: yes. I hasten to add that I only remember *reading* this recipe – this starch-meet-starch concoction never darkened our door. My mother made only lovely pies that contained actual fruit. Clearly just seeing the description was enough to etch it in my memory though.
photo of Ritz cracker by flickr user Velo Steve
