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                          “Two handles to serve soup.”
                                        
Next on the tour was a duplex built in the early 1800s. The ground floor had
four rooms total, two for each family living in the building. Both rooms
weren't much larger than 15' by 15' and both rooms were more or less used for
bedrooms (remember, all the cooking was done outside in Florida).

He also showed us the bathroom. A small stand in the corner with a pitcher, a
bowl and a chamber pot. “One tourist told me,” he said, “that his grandmother
used to serve soup in such a pot. I told him he should ask his grandmother
how many handles were on the pot. Two handles to serve soup.”

He then showed us a bar of soap. “Made of ash and animal fat. And smells just
as good too.” He handed it around the room and everybody took a whiff. Yup,
smells about as good as you would think it would.

It's amazing how far we've progressed in the past two hundred years.
Especially in waffle iron technology.


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