ladytrentham
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Now tomorrow morning, I'll breakfast in bed, and then get straight up into the tweeds.
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Post by ladytrentham on Oct 23, 2012 12:43:44 GMT -4
When I was your age, ice cream came in rectangular boxes and my Mom learned to cook flank steak because it was the cheap cut.
And we had candy aspirin and candy cigarettes!
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Post by chonies on Oct 23, 2012 12:56:31 GMT -4
When I was your age, ice cream came in rectangular boxes and my Mom learned to cook flank steak because it was the cheap cut. And we had candy aspirin and candy cigarettes! I loved when I went to my friends' houses and their moms would flip the ice cream box over and slice it with a knife. Ice cream slabs for all!
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Post by tabby on Oct 23, 2012 13:04:05 GMT -4
I just saw this on a t-shirt: When I was your age, we had nine planets.
Oh, yes, candy aspirin and candy cigarettes. Also, children's aspirin intended for actual children, not for middle-aged adults trying to stave off heart attacks. "St. Joseph! St. Joseph! As-pir-in for chil-der-en!"
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Post by Neurochick on Oct 23, 2012 13:18:38 GMT -4
When I was your age, the only reality TV show that existed was "An American Family" on PBS.
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 23, 2012 14:20:34 GMT -4
When I was your age, a ten-cent bag of chips was more than enough for two people to share. We only bought the bigger 25-cent size if we were having company.
Penny candy was still a thing (we're talking early 70's here). I used to take my allowance down to the corner store and spend a happy 20 minutes choosing how to spend it. The owner didn't mind - he liked everyone and enjoyed talking to us kids.
(I visited that store again this summer. It's under different owners, of course, and it's completely changed. No more penny candy. Sigh.)
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Jul 5, 2024 20:36:44 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2012 14:27:13 GMT -4
Heh. We had penny candy at our local deli (mid-80s). It was fun at the time, of course, but when I think back to the employees rooting around in there, fishing out my 5 Swedish fish (or what have you)... ::shudder::
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Post by Peggy Lane on Oct 23, 2012 14:36:55 GMT -4
When I was your age, fewer groceries were packaged in plastic. Candy bars were wrapped in two layers of paper, cereal boxes were lined with waxed paper, peanut butter jars were glass. I have faded memories of yogurt coming in waxed cardboard containers. I'm not a total anti-plastic conspiracist, but I miss the variety of textures. This. Even Gatorade came in glass bottles! And Tylenol/asprin (I don't think Advil was a thing yet) came in little glass bottles, too.
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Post by Alexis Machine on Oct 23, 2012 15:16:06 GMT -4
And we had candy aspirin and candy cigarettes! When I was four-years-old my Mom used to send me to the corner store to buy her real cigarettes and candy cigarettes for me.
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 23, 2012 17:26:45 GMT -4
Yeah, I remember spending some time at my mum's office and being sent across the street to buy cigarettes for her co-workers (they were allowed to smoke in the office back then, of course). I was 10. Until one day when the clerk said "I can't sell these to you; you're under 18", and I gaped at her in astonishment. It had never occurred to me that she'd think they were for me!
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Post by chitowngirl on Oct 23, 2012 19:08:53 GMT -4
When I was your age, containers didn't have impossible-to-get-off seals on them. You just twisted the jar open and you were good to go!
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