What nasty sandwich did kids eat during the depression?

Question

It could later on make you drop dead of a heart attack, my father was served up those sandwiches.

Answer 1

My mother grew up here in Canada in Northern Ontario during the Depression, she said she ate sugar sandwiches, mustard only, and because they were a rural family alot of rabbit, as a chef, that was one thing along with mutton (were Irish, she was born there came here at 3 yrs old) that I could never cook, did slip some goat meat into her once, she also said when the cow was shy of milk, my late grandmother made barley water, by boiling barley with water and mixing it with sugar to drink as a milk replacement.

Answer 2

My dear mother told us how her parents served onion sandwiches with butter.

With six kids her parents would cook one chicken for the whole family and she being younger was given the wing, "the best part!"

Answer 3

I think some people used to make lard sandwiches back then.

They used to sell lard in a big can for cooking.  

Answer 4

Dripping

Answer 5

Deviled ham??

Answer 6

Spam?  

My grandparents ate Spam a lot and still do... smells like wet cat food to me.