Close. Really it was mostly vegetables and starches, with regular meat in there too. Meat was expensive, that’s why the phrase “brings home the bacon” means someone who is financially successful. They can afford to eat meat with their breakfast.

Depending on the place and time, of course. But pre-WWII was the Depression, and money was tight for most folks. Before that, in the plains anyway, was the dustbowl.

Interestingly, pork was the most common meat. Chickens are too valuable because they keep producing eggs. Cows would rarely be slaughtered because they are an enormous investment of time and resources (plus they can make milk). Goats are good, but pigs put on a lot more meat much more quickly. As a result, pork (bacon, ham, sausage) were the regular go-to for most people.

And small regionals.

Anyway, your point stands. There were something like 30,000 banks in the US in 1980, 15,000 banks in 2008, and 4,000 banks today. Consolidation has been unreal.

Cahokia. It’s one hell of an interesting place. I used to go on elementary school field trips every year, so didn’t realize how special it was until I went back as an adult. But wow, it’s a cool place.

Going to Zion, Bryce, and Arches next month. I can’t tell you how hyped I am.

I’ll be there this summer. I can’t articulate how excited I am to experience it in person.

Web 1.0 was pretty decentralized.

I mean - everyone used Internet Explorer as their browser, but my point is that there really wasn’t the same big corporate feel to the web.

We had it, we liked it, and in the name of progress we lost it.

Yep, that’s Central Illinois levels of crazy. Although horseshoes are delicious. I’ve never understood why they didn’t take off in other parts of the country, other than maybe because no one else can get the cheese sauce right.

OP is somehow trolling himself, I think.

I always liked Fitz. It’s a shame he never found a real home, I’m convinced that he could’ve been up there with Brees and Rivers. Not Brady or Manning good, mind you, but good enough to be a franchise guy if he was in the right system.

The violent rape while she was passed out. It made her bleed.

A newt?

90’s IL represent! I grew up in Central IL back then, too. We had a tornado or two every year, it seemed. I also lived in Springfield when the tornadoes hit in 2006. Anyway, I moved away, but I never really hear about them anymore. And pretty much none here in Ohio.

That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.