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From: Jim Fergus <>
Subject: Re: [NEBRHeritage-L] nother hint hint
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 14:38:00 -0600
In-Reply-To: <200012241551.IAA08563@aztec2.asu.edu>


At 08:51 AM 12/24/2000 -0700, you wrote:


> What do the following names represent?
> Little Hatchet and Golden Thistle;
> Dictator, and Nickel Plate
>
> These names are brands of WHAT_______?
> edible product for human consumption made in Ne.
>
>
>Sunflowers??
>NO!!!
> sunflowers were not considered edible till about
>the 1960's I think.
>
>These brand names for the product were produced during
>the period of 1913, a few years before and after and
>a daily life product. It may even be availble now.
>Not sure because of not living in Ne.
>
>Fred


I don't know about sunflowers as such but I do know that sunflower seeds
were very popular much earlier than the 1960's As I was growing up, and
in grade school, about the 1920's we all, well a lot of us, ate
toasted-salted sunflower seeds. the school system in Hastings had to ban
eating sunflower seeds in and during school. The floors of the schools
back in those days were wooden and the sunflower husks when spit out on the
floor would stick like glue!! The janitors complained because the husks
had to be scraped from the floor with a putty knife. Also, every Saturday
night, when the farmers came to town for their weekly shopping spree the
farmers, and the city folk, spent the evenings on the street corners
(usually in from of such places as F.W.Woolworth) carrying on their
discussions about the weather, crop potential, the economy, etc., all the
time eating sunflower seeds and expectorating the husks on the
sidewalks. Among the regulars on Saturday night was Edmund "Cy" Nuss a
County Judge, later to become District Judge.
Sunflower seeds were never known as sunflower seeds....they were
Rooshan (Russian) Peanuts.



Jim Fergus




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