Where I live in Illinois at one time there was a custom to set unwanted/surplus produce along the edge of the road along the fence line and anyone wanting it could pick it up and go.
That practice started in the 1930’s maybe late 1920’s and carried through around the 1950’s early 1960’s
One day in the early 1980’s my mother set out some tomatoes out to sun ripen.
A car load of old ladies going to the local church quilting held each week pulled up got out with their little buckets and sorted through the tomatos picked what they wanted and left.
When I had heard what happened, I remember saying to my mother why didn’t you say something to them?
She told me about the custom of setting out surplus produce/furniture/cloths/etc… she then went on to say she didn’t want to old women to die from embarrassment.
My mother continued to sun ripen tomatoes for the rest of that year.
She never said if she had any takers.
P.S. The story about setting out unwanted items is a true story I confirmed it through general conversations with some other people.
It seems that at one time in our little part of the woods there was a couple of families where the mother had died leaving a grief stricken father and some hungry children.
The idea was hatched that the children and anyone in need could have the food or what ever for the taking as a way to not shame them for taking charity.
I know this isn’t the jest behind the original post but a reminder of another time in our nations history where people took care of each other without the asking.
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