Soup during the War (WWII)

Funny stories from WWII

My boss told a story that cracks me up.

We were discussing a home that is being remodeled on Hamilton Ave, which by the way, is going to be made a Historical site. He said that the two women that lived in this particular house never married and were busy bodies. They kept up with the funerals and carried food to all the families.

There was a death in my bosses family during WWII. The sisters bring their mama's famous white bean soup and this was when the beans were not sold in a bag, you bought them by the pound. Everyone starts to eat their soup and cornbread. Someone had a penny in their soup, another had a quarter, someone found three nickles and last...someone had the receipt from the store in their beans. He said that the money added up to the change on the receipt. A phone call to the sisters proved that one sister had just dumped the contents of the sack in the pot.