Story time...

Here's something I learned from my mother...the beauty of a Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich!  I've had them with both dill and sweet pickles, and they're good both ways.  But you can't beat a thick swath of peanut butter with good quality Bread & Butter pickle slices piled on.

Here's something else I learned from Mom.  When you put the sandwich fixins on one side of a slice of bread, and fold it in half, it's called a Zeecher.  LOL  At least in my family.

When my mother was growing up on her grandparents' farm in the 1920s and '30s, they would have men who came by in search of work and/or a meal.  One fella, who stayed and worked for awhile before moving on, would come in for meals, and before leaving the table would grab a single slice of bread and slap some of whatever was left from the meal on the bread and fold it in half.  He would then put it in his pocket for later in the day.  

The story goes that nobody in the family had seen this done before.  And that from that day forward the family called folded-over half sandwiches Zeechers, after the first fella they had seen make them: Mr. Zeecher.  We definitely called them that at our house while I was growing up.  Even my dad had started calling them that.  :)

My parents were both in their forties when I was born.  My mother being raised by her grandparents with aunts and uncles still at home, and her grandparents' siblings living nearby, means that I was lucky enough to hear stories of family history that went further back than that of the families of a lot of kids my age.