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... where "made from scratch" refers to the rough grains and cracked corn intended for chickens. If you further processed the chicken feed (scratch) you could
by tejtm 4y ago
... where "made from scratch" refers to the rough grains and cracked corn intended for chickens. If you further processed the chicken feed (scratch) you could make corn bread and what not for less money than people food
- nanomonkey 4y agoActually it refers to the scratch line of a foot race, the starting line. Some racers were allowed to start a little ahead as a handicap. So starting from scratch meant that you started at the beginning. Made from scratch came along later, picking up from the usage of this word. What I'd like to know is where "Old Scratch", aka the devil came from.
- tejtm 4y agoInteresting, I had heard the "chicken scratch" explanation pre-internet and assumed it was so. But looking now "primary starting line" makes better sense