Have you ever eaten one?
What is a bacon grease sandwich, you ask? First, I should say that a bacon grease sandwich has no bacon on it. It only has bacon fat. When I was a kid a hundred years ago my mother used to make bacon grease sandwiches occasionally. Whenever she cooked bacon she would pour all the fat into a glass jar and put it into the refrigerator to congeal. To make a sandwich she would take one slice of light rye bread and then with a butter knife she would thickly spread congealed bacon fat over the bread then douse it with salt.
That is an open-faced bacon grease sandwich.
Were you nauseated by that description? Did you clutch your chest in anticipation of coronary problems? Or did you get hungry?
My mother was a child during the Great Depression. She experienced the horrors of World War II as a teenager. While she and her family celebrated when Hitler invaded her homeland of Czechoslovakia (they were German, not Czech) things got ever worse as the war progressed. Life became brutal. It was not long before food became very scarce — especially meat. Farmland turned into battlefields and everyone was fighting instead of tending the crops and farm animals.
My mother’s family was forced to scavenge for food — any food. On a few rare occasions they were able to procure some…
