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Another breakfast grain, Germade

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  • Rocky Raab
    I live here, as you know, DP but I've never heard of it. I wonder if it's a "church" thing like Sanka.
    Edit to add: Ah, yup. Lehi Mills. It's a sort of "Mormon Cream of Wheat."
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  • dpmule
    Yep Rocky, that's it, but the coffee thing in Mormon families up here is "Postum or Pero".
    That big grain mill south of you, just off I-15 on the west side of the road used to produce a several grain breakfast cereal, but I can't remember the name of it, but it was good, and like Germade, it was a real heat producer.

    Mule
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  • SCOUT5
    When I was a kid our neighbors on our road were hardcore Mormons (like really hardcore), and that's where I heard of Germade.  I was good friends with one of their boys (when they would let him out).  He would always talk about foods his mom and sister made.  Everything they ever ate was made from scratch...including all their clothes.  (well, they didn't eat their clothes...at least I don't think they did!).  I never got to try any of this stuff (I wasn't allowed inside their house).  LIke I said..."hardcore".
    Something funny going on with that family.   Most Mormons are fairly friendly people and are glad to share what they believe in.   So shutting out the neighbors isn't normal behavior.      
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  • dpmule
    SCOUT5 said:
    When I was a kid our neighbors on our road were hardcore Mormons (like really hardcore), and that's where I heard of Germade.  I was good friends with one of their boys (when they would let him out).  He would always talk about foods his mom and sister made.  Everything they ever ate was made from scratch...including all their clothes.  (well, they didn't eat their clothes...at least I don't think they did!).  I never got to try any of this stuff (I wasn't allowed inside their house).  LIke I said..."hardcore".
    Something funny going on with that family.   Most Mormons are fairly friendly people and are glad to share what they believe in.   So shutting out the neighbors isn't normal behavior.      
    Might have been "Polegs" a polygamy family?
    We have a family of them up here, been here for years and as far as anyone is allowed to go is the barn yard or spud cellars. I do not know anyone who has been inside their house.

    Mule
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  • Rocky Raab
    Yes. Postum, not Sanka. Thanks, mule. Senile: it's not just a trip to Egypt.
    Polygamy is not nearly as common as some internet wits seem to think, but it does exist. There are a few such families near us - a more than usual concentration of "single moms" often in duplexes or triplexes. It isn't just for the sex; they rake in public assistance money hand over fist and know every dodge to work the system. The slang term is "Pligs."
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