Baws born before 1985; what uses did your family have for paper sacks?

Koozie

To wear on their heads at a Saint's game.

When I was a wee lad, I didn’t think I could stand up without holding onto something. My Grandfather would stand me up in a paper sack and I would hold the edge and stand there. Apparently I was easily fooled as a child.

We used and still use them for battering fried chicken

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As a shaker to batter fish..

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Mom battered hundreds of pounds of crappie in a paper bag.

Whole foods bags are my cooking trash bags. It's so much easier to set one on the counter and drop in stuff as I chop as opposed to lugging over the trash can.

Frying fish. Used them to put corn meal/fish fry in and shook the fish to coat them before dropping into the oil.
Worked great for chicken/etc with flour, also.

I would slide a pan of fried seafood into a large one to keep it warm and non-soggy.

We wore them as clothes