Middle Aged Memories
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We did the neighbourhood bbq's, pool parties and games, too. So many good memories!
Meece, we played all those same games here in Canada when I was a kid. I just polled my 10-year-old daughter to see if she has ever played any of these games with her friends and she hadn't heard of any of them other than hopscotch. I think we need to get out in the yard and play Kick the Can today and get her off MSN!
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There you go!
I was remembering today when zip loc first came out. Before then, we had fold-lock tops which were supposed to be so good. I remember the gallon bags that you had to use the twist ties, jsut like at the grocery produce dept.
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DH and I went to help some friends today and they were watching their 10-yr old grand daughter. I asked her to help me, and she willingly did. When we were finished she said she liked to color and asked if I did. I said I sure did. So she ran inside and brought back two coloring books. We colored a picture, and when we were finished, she stated "I'm glad you came today so I could have a playmate."
I felt very young again.
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That is too cute! I love to color. My husband and I took his grandson out to dinner one evening and his place mat came with crayons to keep him busy. I was the one doing the coloring!
I remember wax paper bags before plastic sandwich bags. And school lunch boxes with warm milk in your Thermos...gag! And Scooter-pies!
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Oh yes, I remember the waxed paper bags, too. We rarely used our Thermases, we bought a carton of cold milk for 5 cents.
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The kids at my school went home for lunch everyday. My mom used to make me Mrs. Grass chicken noodle soup with the golden egg. They didn't sell that soup in Canada so we used to buy it in Michigan (we lived on the border). My brother had a grilled cheese every day. We always wanted the same lunch every day...how boring!
My mom also used to make us something called Junket. I don't think it was available in the US. It was sort of like a flavoured pudding (rennet) thing. Hard to describe and kind of a texture like creme brule but not near as tasty.
Sherri
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The golden egg! Yes, I remember. The soup was o.k., but it was fun to watch that egg disolve.
Now more memories of sweets...those differednt caramel suckers:
Sugar Daddy - still out there, slightly different. Still able to pull out fillings!
Slo-Poke (mmm, my favorite!) - still there, but drastically changed into something with inferior** flavor that is flexible from the get-go, unlike the "real" ones that you had to suck on for at least five minutes before it would become flexible.
Black Cow (Purple Cow, too) - both gone. The black cow was kind of like the Suggar Daddy, but with a chocolate-like coating.
**I made a little footnote because they made the same change to the Squirrel candy. Those used to be hard as a rock, tasty, and would pull the fillings right out of your teeth. Now they are soft, dentally safe, and have an awful generic taste.
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I used to love Sweet Tarts. They are still available but are now different. When I was a kid, each tablet had either an "S" (meaning that one was harder and indended to be sucked) or "bite em" (meaning it was softer intended to be bit). The ones my daughter buys now only have the "S" on them. I suppose there were either complaints or fear of kids biting an hurting their teeth. It takes away some of the fun it it!
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I remember Junket, thay had it here in CA.
Do you remember the Giant SweetTarts that you were supposed to suck, and how you could make your tongue raw on them?
Do you think they still have Charlston Chews? The chocolate covered caramel made me think of them.
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Mmmm! Toasted Almond Bar -- the way it tasted when I was a kid. My neighborhood had the truck and driver instead, but the guy did have to wear the uniform and the coin dispenser.
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I was luckiy enough (and my neighborhood was hungry enough) that we also had Mister Softee. I never liked soft serve ice cream, but could manage to force some down on a hot summer day.
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I remember Junket, had it quite a lot growing up here in Maine. And putting Charleston Chews in the freezer and then smacking them on the table or floor to break them up into smaller pieces. Up here "Purple Cow" is the name of a chain of pancake restaraunts where you could get a great breakfast for very little cost. There are still a few around, all independantly run now. Never heard of the golden egg soup, but it sounds like fun!
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When we were in elementary school, my brother and I used to get allergy shots regularly. On the days we went, my mother would pick us up from school and we'd stop at The Red Barn for lunch as it was on the way. I think that chain was in the US, too. The restaurant was built to resemble the shape of a red barn. I used to like the Big Barney sandwiches, which were somewhat comparable to Big Macs from McDonalds. Does anybody else remember The Red Barn?
Sherri
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My oldest sister use to work at one of The Red Barn's in California. Yep, it looked like a big red barn! Remember Sambo's restaurant? I was a small child then and I loved the pictures of the tiger wearing the clothes. There was a hamburger place in the Bay Area when I was a kid called Hokies (sp?). It had an outdoor seating area that was surrounded in dark blue glass. It was a special treat when we got to go there.
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Yep. I remember Red Barn. Also, Roy Rogers restaurants (roast beef competitor of Arby's)
Now they are auctioning off Trigger (Cowboy Roy's taxidermied horse) at Christie's in NYC this week. That's pretty weird. I saw a bronze statue of the real taxidermied Trigger once, a stallion rearing up on his back legs. Not only weird, but also anatomically correct.
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Can you imagine a stuffed horse that's over 4 decades old. Think of the dust and possible bugs. Ewwwwwwwww.
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Old Trigger went for over $200,000. Roy Rogers famously made a statement that when he died he wanted to be stuffed and be put on his horse. Wonder how much he's fetch at auction????
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Long time ago, in grade school, the teacher's had a device that could hold 5-6 sticks of chalk in it, and it was used to simultaneously draw even lines on the board, like on paper...so the kids could practice their penmanship on the balckboard. Ever see those?
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I wasn't into comic books like some kids were, certainly not a collector, but I bought them now and then. The prices were 10, then 12 cents when I bought my first ones. I liked Casper and Wendy comics, Richie Rich, and Archie (and especially the spin-off one just called Betty and Veronica) and maybe Superman, Supergirl, or Green Lantern once in a while. Come to think of it, I really loved the Superman comics with Bizarro Superman in Bizarro World!
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I remember the chalk holder thingy. We had a pharmacy by our home that sold comic books. I loved Archie. Betty and Veronica had the bodies I wanted, cute clothes and cool friends!
Memories...I just want another day of those care-free summer evenings, playing kickball or headlight tag on the street with the neighbors. The adults hanging out at Pauls house with his keg-erator and Harley with his paper grocery bag full of popcorn...neighborhood bar-b-ques and catching pollywogs in the creek...
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I remember the chalk holder. I don't even think classrooms use chalk boards now. I think they've all gone to white boards.
How about hand cranking the icecream freezer and then getting to "lick the beater" before the icecream was packed to harden.
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I remember helping my Grandmother to separate the milk after she had milked her cow Daisy. I also remember the jam tarts she made in her wood stove and serving it with the scalded cream that she had made the day before.............my mouth is salivating just remembering the flavour.
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Oh, grandma's kitchen! My grandmother had left the farm by the time I came along, but I do have a strange memory.
Grandma had a couple of "food tins" that fruit cakes had come in. When she baked Tollhouse cookies, she would fill these containers with cookies and place them in the freezer. When we go visit we'd ask if she had a cookie, and inevitably she would go and get a tin from the freezer, There is not a cookie that can compare with a Tollhouse cookie that is just warming to room temp. There is just something about thinking about it that brings back the smell when you popped open the tin.
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I actually found a hand cranked ice cream maker at LL Bean's a few years back--got it for my folks for Christmas! Still using it, and still fighting over who gets the dasher!
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dasher...I couldn't think f the word.
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I remember cranking the ice cream, for what seemed like hours, while visiting my grandma in Mississippi. It was so hot that the minute it was done, it would melt!
And I love Toll House cookies! I made them one day and then my daughter wanted a chocolate chip cookie from a cookie shop down town. Their's weren't even close to the home made taste of the Toll House ones. Remember the Tupperware popsicle molds and Kool-Pops?
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Yes, I remember the home-made popsicles. I recall my mom used jello to make them. They were yummy. She also used to make some kind of jello moulded salad, of which I wasn't too fond.
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I still have a set of "Ice-Tup" molds. I plan on getting them back out when I get to be a gramma. They were the ones my mom used for us, and I used for my boys.
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GAG! Jello salads. My mom would make lime Jello with mandarin oranges, black cherry Jello with canned fruit cocktail and cherry Jello with sliced apples and celery. What was she thinking??? I avoid Jello at all costs!
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My mom put fruit cocktail and bananas in her jello, no matter what flavor.
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At least your mothers didn't put cottage cheese in the jello--that's the worst!
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