Dandylion Salad Anyone?

This is a little different from my normal content but it gives you a good idea of what people will do when they are hungry, human beings are very resourceful and can survive through the most extreme times. This is what people ate when they were desperate during the Great Depression in America. Remember, of course, that the country at this time was overflowing with surplus food, John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath writes about orchards and orangeries being patrolled by armed guards to stop the hungry from stealing fruit while it sat, unpicked on the trees.

The great depression was an example of capitalism failing as a means of efficiently allocating resources (in this instance, food) to people. Watch this video and see