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A food/family history anecdote:
1. When I first started dating @ManCleves in the mid-90s he was living around the corner from Katz's deli in the Lower East Side of NYC, and when we went there I always cracked up at their "Send a Salami to your Boy in the Army" sign #foodhist
1. When I first started dating @ManCleves in the mid-90s he was living around the corner from Katz's deli in the Lower East Side of NYC, and when we went there I always cracked up at their "Send a Salami to your Boy in the Army" sign #foodhist
2. Yesterday, my father told me a story about how my grandmother sent a salami to my grandfather when he was serving in WW2. My grandma was living in the Bronx, so maybe she bought the salami at a deli there. The slogan was widespread in NYC at the time https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/merwin-pastrami-on-rye
3. Anyway, my GP was stationed in Iceland in 42/3. He was an officer (graduated West Point in 1938 after serving 2 years as an enlisted man). Maybe a battalion commander at that point? So he receives this salami in the mail and gives it to his mess sergeant. (pic of GP 
) #WW2
) #WW2
4. Late that night, working in his quonset hut, he called the mess sgt to ask for a salami sandwich. The mess sgt reported that the salami was “gone.” My grief-stricken GP busted him down to the rank of private (he suspected the sergeant of selling the salami).
5. In my GP’s defense he busted balls up the chain too. Once he was patrolling a road on a US base and a black limo sped past. He pulled the limo over, window rolled down, and Gen. Patton asked: do you know who I am? My GP said yes and handed him a ticket. He got a commendation!
6. Back to food history, I can’t close this thread without posting this link to Jerry Lewis singing “Send a salami to your boy in the army” from the 1950 movie “At War with the Army.”
