Mothers should be happy, too; consumption of canned green peas rose 5 percent over the year.

It consists of boiled and cubed vegetables (potatoes, carrots, parsley and celery root), finely chopped onions and pickles in mayo dressing, often with diced hard-boiled eggs, some kind of soft salami or canned green peas.

For dinner, the blue plate was sliced roast beef and mashed potatoes, both with thick gravy, and your choice of a vegeta- -as long as it was canned green peas or diced carrots, breakfast, you could get ham and eggs, bacon and or sausage and eggs, and they all came with hash s.