Betty: And then this part of it went in the kitchen.
NW: So what did you do for salad? Did you have a garden—you said it was hard to garden here, at this spot on the Medano?
Betty: We didn't eat salad.
NW: Okay.
Betty: (laughs) I never saw a tomato until I was. . . oh, I suppose in my teens.
NW: Okay.
Betty: We went. . . went with mom and dad to the stock show one year, and ordered a hamburger at a stand, and it had this weird looking stuff in it—we just didn't eat salad.
NW: Okay.
Betty: We had canned vegetables, baked our own bread, had meat every meal—ah. . . round steak and gravy and biscuits every morning for breakfast.
NW: Round steak for breakfast? Wow!
Betty: Um hum.
NW: Okay.
Betty: And then usually a roast for dinner and for supper you'd have cold roast, but you had three big meals a day for those men.
NW: And you were. . .
Betty: These are. . . you were working. . . pies, cakes. Yeah, it was. . . wasn't a picnic.
NW: Pies. Yeah. But you did make pickles. Did you make pickles?
Betty: I didn't. Some of the cooks did.
NW: Oh.
Betty: I never did like pickles, and I never made anything I didn't like.
NW: I noticed you didn't eat your pickles at lunch.
Betty: Huh huh. I just don't go for pickles. We ah. . . most of the stuff that we ate here was. . . was bought at the store. There was a little grocery store in Hooper, and we got all of our supplies there. Ah. . . like I said, there was. . . we didn't have a garden here. Ah. . . lack of water, lack of time. Probably could have raised one if we had water. But nobody had the time to do it, and so we didn't have fresh produce.
NW: Okay.
Betty: We had dried fruit—dried peaches, prunes, raisins. And always a ve. . . it used to come in big twenty-five pound wooden boxes. And we'd always have two or three boxes of each kind in that pantry.
NW: Oh!
Betty: Then we'd cook that for fruit.
NW: Um hum.
Betty: For dessert.
NW: Um hum. It's a great dessert.
Betty: Yeah. Makes a great dessert.
NW: So would you get fresh apples and peaches in the summer from the western slope, where people. . .
Betty: Yeah. About Christmas time, dad would buy oranges and apples, and that was our Christmas treat, and everybody looked forward to that cause that was the only time we had fresh. . . fresh fruit.