Life Before Plastic
From Karen
My husband and I are trying to live simply and get back to old ways. After breakfast I was packing his lunch and wondered how foods were packed before plastic wrap and containers.
Could anyone pass on how this was handled?
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Life Before Plastic Reply
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
I can remember my mother using wax paper to wrap my sandwiches, then placing them into a brown paper bag. We were taught to fold up and save the wax paper and bag, so they could be used again, but sometimes I would end up using the old wax paper at the school playground. We would sit on them and then slide down the "slides." The wax off the paper would make the slides slippery so that we could go faster.
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Life Before Plastic Reply
From William H. Gieske, Jr.
That’s how I remember it. Wax paper was all we had and brown paper bags. You reused them as much as you could. The only plastic stuff was Bakelite which was brittle and not near like today's plastic. I remember chicken feed coming in print bags that could be used to make dresses. Ice boxes not refrigerators that did not keep food as long as now and the food did not have near as much in preservatives in it.