Grandmother Bica invited her sons and nephews to dinner on Wednesdays. Poverty forced her to skip breakfast and replace it with Thursday teas. Apart from sandwiches, Bica served "biscuits" at tea. She cut the rolls into thin slices, dipped them in the tea flavored with anise or caraway, baked them in the oven, got them out to cool and powdered them with sugar.

My aunt Marilena baked a dough filled with meat goods from the stale re-baked bread we used to eat. Something comestible came out from stale bread and salami. The "salam de vara" (summer salami) was smoked and dried on the balcony. It became a delicacy we also took to the country, to Cernica.

The yolks were pale, almost white. We kept them salty to grow yellow. There was no flour. Stale bread was turned into pulled bread. We used it for cake dough. We crushed the Russian fish cans with the fork, added crumb and onion and got fish paste. (7)

90 minutes Sony Cassettes-200 lei

Cinema Almanac- 25 lei

Loaf of bread, before the price increase- 3 lei, after the price increase- 2,75 lei

Dambovita (400 gr. bread)- 2,50 before the price increase, after the price increase-2,75

Ice-cream with chocolate icing- 2,75 lei

Big Ice-cream ? 4 lei

Small Ice-cream- 3 lei

Profiterol, at Bucuresti café- 20 lei

Fruit salad at Bucuresti café-17,50 lei

Mascota cake- 10 lei