What a Family Really Ate in One Day During the Great Depression

In 1933, millions of American kids went to school with an empty lunch pail. One in four workers had no job, banks were failing and breadlines stretched around the block. Spend one whole day with an ordinary family in an Ohio factory town during the Great Depression, from the frozen kitchen at dawn to the radio at night, and see exactly what they ate, how they made a few pennies feed six people, and the tricks Americans used to survive the hardest years in the country's history. Old Silas, the grocer who kept their names in his credit book, tells the story. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 The empty lunch pail 0:24 5:30 AM: The Cold Kitchen 2:02 6:30 AM: Breakfast 3:29 7:30 AM: Looking for Work 6:02 9:00 AM: The Kids 8:02 11:00 AM: Stretching Every Penny 10:27 12:00 PM: Dinner 12:30 2:00 PM: The Knock at the Back Door 14:36 4:00 PM: Something Sweet 16:10 6:00 PM: Supper 17:36 8:00 PM: The Radio 19:46 Why grandma saved aluminum foil In this video: • Milk toast, lard sandwiches, Hoover stew and ketchup soup • Breadlines, apple sellers and Al Capone's soup kitchen • The Bonus Army, failing banks and the Dust Bowl • Feed-sack dresses, rent parties and "use it up, wear it out" • Wacky cake, vinegar pie and mock apple pie with no apples • Why the government destroyed six million pigs while people went hungry • FDR's fireside chats and the worst food in the White House Subscribe for more stories about how Americans really lived in the 1700s–1930s. #history #greatdepression #americanhistory