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27 Mar 03 - 11:23 PM (#920217) Subject: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST,Jeep Man What things have you literally had around all your life and have become part of you? I will start with these..Coke, Dukes Mayonaise, Arm and Hammer baking soda,Calumet Baking powder,Case Knives, etc. Jeep |
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27 Mar 03 - 11:29 PM (#920222) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Padre White Lily flour Ramps Dr Pepper Moon Pies Valleydale Sausage (with the marching pigs) Carhartt Work clothes The 1928 Book of Common Prayer |
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27 Mar 03 - 11:37 PM (#920224) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: katlaughing Most of these I don't use anymore, but they are still around:-) Bic pens Chapstick Crisco oil Gleem toothpaste Jiffy cake, muffin, and cornbread mixes Nestles' chocolate milk powder Sugar babies Tootsie pops Swiss Army knives Walter Cronkite:-) |
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28 Mar 03 - 12:45 AM (#920241) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Metchosin Miracle Whip Fry's Cocoa Keen's Dry Mustard Quaker Oatmeal Arrid Deodorant 20 Mule Team Borax and a dinted brass and leather fireplace bellows with a ship on it. |
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28 Mar 03 - 01:39 AM (#920255) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Stilly River Sage Chevy Ford Chrysler ;-) |
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28 Mar 03 - 06:10 AM (#920341) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: AllisonA(Animaterra) King Arthur Flour Ovaltine milk in glass bottles (very hard to find but there's one local dairy that still has them!) |
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28 Mar 03 - 09:03 AM (#920440) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Allan C. Love |
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28 Mar 03 - 09:08 AM (#920442) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Alasdair Cups of tea McVite's chocolate digestives Robertson's jam Hot ribena when you have a cold A generally equable temperament with a tendendency to fly off the handle from time to time |
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28 Mar 03 - 09:16 AM (#920448) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: MMario happily - my parents. |
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28 Mar 03 - 10:35 AM (#920538) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Peg Teaberry gum; back after a long hiatus! Vinyl records, but maybe not for long. Wise potato chips Seventies fashions; not sure why they keep coming back, but it's kind of comforting that they do... |
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28 Mar 03 - 10:41 AM (#920549) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Kim C Reese's Cups (my favorite candy in the WHOLE world), Goody hairpins & ponytail holders, Lay's potato chips, Oscar Meyer bologna, Miracle Whip, Saturday morning cartoons (although the cartoons themselves have changed somewhat). |
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28 Mar 03 - 10:42 AM (#920550) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: MMario but the roadrunner's still around! |
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28 Mar 03 - 10:53 AM (#920566) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Mrrzy How about things you are old enough to remember them inventing, like silly string and silly putty? |
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28 Mar 03 - 10:57 AM (#920569) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: MMario 70's fashions? |
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28 Mar 03 - 11:24 AM (#920596) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: katlaughing Vicks vap-o-rub! |
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28 Mar 03 - 01:15 PM (#920605) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST my pee pee |
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28 Mar 03 - 01:24 PM (#920606) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Morticia Birds custard Lea and Perrins Marmite Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate Gentlemans Relish |
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28 Mar 03 - 01:33 PM (#920609) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: MMario And thanks to Two Fat Ladies I even know what Gentleman's Relish is! |
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28 Mar 03 - 03:13 PM (#920681) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Morticia it's yummy, thats what it is :) |
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28 Mar 03 - 03:20 PM (#920687) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Peg oh I was going to say Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce! You mind-reader! My favorite brand of this wonderful condiment... |
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28 Mar 03 - 03:43 PM (#920707) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Bee-dubya-ell Queen Elizabeth Fidel Castro Mickey Mouse (unfortunately) |
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28 Mar 03 - 04:07 PM (#920731) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy Mackinaw Island Fudge Bazooka Joe gum Snyder's of Hanover Sourdough Pretzels Poland Seltzer Water (fruit flavors) Lipton Tea (made as sun tea) Downy Fabric Softener Maruchan Ramen Pasties (the Cornish- not breast- variety) Salt and Vinegar chips (or salt 'n vinnies, in the family lingo.) RC Cola and... my favorite... Vernor's Ginger Ale |
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28 Mar 03 - 04:16 PM (#920742) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: catspaw49 Ah yes.....the first pop I remember drinking.....Vernors Ginger Ale!! Krepples (aka Scrapple) Frog Eyes (large size tapioca pudding) Schwinn Bikes (just bought one for Tristan) Reese Cups (I'm with Kim) Baseball Cards (though sadly I had no idea they'd ever be worth anything) Spaw |
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28 Mar 03 - 04:31 PM (#920758) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Ely I love Vernors! It makes everyone else in my family choke. Valomilks (like Reese's peanut-butter cups but with marshmallow instead of peanut butter) Tak-A-Boost/Drink-A-Toast (a weird New Jersey drink--it comes as a concentrated syrup and tastes kind of like flat Dr. Pepper. You eat pretzels when you drink it. My mother is from New Jersey and she brings gallon jugs back whenever she visits her family.) Those little metal cap bombs--do kids play with caps any more? We had six-shooters, too. We've had Teaberry gum (and Black Jack, the licorice gum) as long as I can remember. We used to get it at REI before it went yuppie. Horehound candies |
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28 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM (#920775) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy The key with Vernor's is that you cannot inhale through your nose when taking a drink from the can. The ONLY way to drink it is from the can with the exception of Boston Coolers (which reminds me!!!) Boston Coolers (Vernor's G.A. mixed with vanilla ice cream. mmmmmm) Pork Rinds (what can I say- I grew up in MI *and* KY) Jello brand pudding (chocolate) Knox blocks (BIG YUM!!! Esp. when made with concord grape juice.) |
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28 Mar 03 - 05:41 PM (#920828) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Ebbie I have a l o n g memory- I was born in 1935. Practically the only thing that hasn't changed is drugstores. They smell just as they did when I was a kid. Then some time back I inadvertently bought Pepsodent tooth paste. Taste memory rushed in- it's the brand we used when I was little, although we used tooth powder, as opposed to paste. I don't know if they even make tooth powder any more. |
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28 Mar 03 - 06:00 PM (#920846) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Kim C What's a Boston Cooler and can I make one in Nashville? Tidy Cat clay cat litter. I never have been able to warm up to the scoopable kind. I just can't commit to making myself scoop poop out of the catbox every day. They still make Lite-Brites and Easy-Bake Ovens. I never had either one, although many's the time I've been sorely tempted to treat myself. Crayola Crayons in the big box of 64. I know they've changed up a few of the colors, but what the hey. Bonne Bell lip gloss in the glass bottle. That Maybelline mascara in the pink-and-green tube. Dreamsicles and Bomb-Pops. Nestle Quik. I got a chuckle out of Bee-dubya's answer, so I'll add one to it: Billy Graham. And another: Mike Wallace. The Tonight Show, although the host has changed. The Grand Ole Opry, again, the lineup has changed but the show must go on. Kraft cheese slices in the plastic wrap. Not real cheese in my estimation, but great for grilled cheese sammiches. Pall-Mall cigarettes. My dad used to smoke em. Chuck Berry. The Rolling Stones. Aerosmith. George Jones. |
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28 Mar 03 - 06:36 PM (#920865) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Burke Nabisco Fig Newtons Barqs' Rootbeer Velveeta Cheese Cheese Its Chex Mix Hellman's Mayonaise Cheese Curls Are Charles' Chips still around? The place that sold the big cans near here went out of business. |
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28 Mar 03 - 06:37 PM (#920866) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Ulysses 1874 Brands I use now that I also grew up with: Bird's Custard Tayto Crisps Jacobs Cream Crackers Fairy Liquid Imperial Leather Soap Marvel Dried Milk Chef Tomato Ketchup HP Brown Sauce Odlum's Flour Stork Margarine Royal Baking Powder Chivers Marmalade Batchelor's Baked Beans Campbell's Tinned Soup Lyons Green Label Tea 7-Up Saxa Salt Oxo Cubes |
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28 Mar 03 - 07:26 PM (#920891) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy Kim C- I figure if we could make Boston Coolers in Northern Michigan, Southern Kentucky, and now in Western New York, I figure you're safe making one in Nashville. Take a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream and add it to a great deal of Vernor's Ginger Ale in a blender. Whir it up a couple times so that you still have some nice chunks of ice cream. Pour into a tall glass. Serve with a straw and an iced tea spoon. ...And I say GO FOR THE LITE BRITE. It was my favorite toy as a kid and it is my favorite toy to use with my kids. It's actually a venue for artistic expression. You don't HAVE to use the templates they give you. You can use the back of the black sheets or use the blank ones. It's really, really fun and it's a cheap thrill for $10. Do it- be a kid again!!!!!! Beccy |
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28 Mar 03 - 07:29 PM (#920893) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy One more thing- Star Kist Tuna and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (although my parents never let me eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese- God Bless 'em- they made mac and cheese from scratch.) Beccy |
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28 Mar 03 - 09:27 PM (#920958) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Sam L A&W root beer. Pixie sticks--still have to teach lids how to manage them. Balsa wood planes. Cracker Jack. Grape jelly of the Concord grape developed by Ephram Bull whose gravestone reads He sowed, Others Reaped. But not sissy bars, bananna seats, clackers, periscope sets. And yet--lawn darts. |
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28 Mar 03 - 09:34 PM (#920968) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: mack/misophist Sometines it seems the things I prized the most are all gone. |
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28 Mar 03 - 11:52 PM (#921043) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST I love it. These are things we take for granted, like Hershey's, Milk Duds, and let's don't forget Hot Dogs. Jim |
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29 Mar 03 - 12:24 AM (#921052) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Ely The only toy I ever wanted that I didn't get was a Radio Flyer wagon--one of the really big ones you can haul your friends around in. I still swear I'm going to get one some day just for the Hell of it. Do they still make the sleds with the metal runners? I've got my dad's Yankee Clipper--I can't use it here in Texas, but I nearly killed myself on it a few times when we lived in Colorado and could get good ice tracks on the hills in the winter. My mother pines for Red Hot Dollars (which are actually fruit-flavored, go figure). They still make them but a lot of places don't carry them. I almost forgot Necco wafers. You can't roof a gingerbread house without them! |
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29 Mar 03 - 12:38 AM (#921056) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Sam L Necco wafers? All I know is nabisco wafers. "Nabisco corners" is sometimes a term for a mistake in design classes. Twister, a game for drunk adults which was foisted on kids (too easy, like hunting cows) is still around. Hot wheels technology has come a long way. 3-D cards, as in cracker jack prizes, have added layers. |
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29 Mar 03 - 01:51 AM (#921072) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: catspaw49 Oh yeah.....Necco Wafers are still around. NECCO stands for New England Confectionary Company and they are now owned by UIS, a Fortune 500. Oddly enough, UIS owns 5 other companies which are all automotive related (Airtex, Wells, REM, Luberfiner, Master). This piece of worthless trivia is brought to by yours truly, a former rep for Airtex. Spaw |
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29 Mar 03 - 02:06 AM (#921076) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Mudlark Juicyfruit gum (ack) Bosco (double ack) Jujubes (often equalled trip to the dentist but they lasted thru/movie Breck Shampoo Tootsie Pops Ajax (so use Ajax...boom boom...the foaming cleanser...floats the dirt right down the drain) and Dutch is still around too Lava and that long bar of grayish-green "laundry" soap that is good for poison oak Kools A Detroit shortcut to a Boston Cooler...6 oz of Vernors, 2-3 oz of cream. |
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29 Mar 03 - 06:28 AM (#921125) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: harvey andrews Second hand bookshops Shropshire Birmingham City football club The BBC War (born1943) |
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29 Mar 03 - 06:43 AM (#921132) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: AllisonA(Animaterra) ...can you still smell Necco wafers in the air as you walk down Mass. Ave. past MIT? |
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29 Mar 03 - 10:14 AM (#921183) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: JennyO Vegemite Weetbix Fountain tomato sauce Cadbury cocoa Sorbent toilet paper Mortein fly spray Pez Streets icecream Santa Claus Bryants Pies (the local pie shop, in Goulburn where I grew up. It's still there! Gary Bryant was in my class - he used to serenade me by singing "Tutti Frutti" - ah memories!) |
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29 Mar 03 - 10:18 AM (#921185) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: *daylia* Dr. Seuss Dear Abby Hippies Dairy Queen ice cream cones (tho they've gone from a nickel to about $1.50!) Dubble Bubble bubble gum Mars bars Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and the Rolling Stones Angels Volkswagen bugs Scooters Roller skates Stupidity Brilliance Kraft caramels Star Trek! daylia |
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30 Mar 03 - 10:29 AM (#921738) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST,The Banjoest Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs and Gibson Mastertones. |
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30 Mar 03 - 10:39 AM (#921745) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Peter T. Yankee arrogance. yours, Peter T. |
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30 Mar 03 - 12:22 PM (#921828) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy Boy, Peter T., aren't you a charmer? |
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30 Mar 03 - 05:20 PM (#922004) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Sam L Hippies, Daylia, ha. Hippie girls with that perpetually startled look in their eyes like they were thrown from a horse when they were kids. I don't know if they still make those girls, or if people restore them in the garage like vintage cars. In my short film, Youbetchurrassic Park, a crazed businessman finds some old hippie DNA in a petulie bottle in the pocket of a mohair jacket, and clones them on an island, for tourists. When scientists arrive to study them it kind of gets Hair-y--they turn on, and begin to question basic tenets of scientific method, chemistry and physics. |
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30 Mar 03 - 07:38 PM (#922106) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: RangerSteve Oreos, Hydrox, fig Newtons, Keeblers Pecan Sandies, Lorna Doones, GirlScout thin mint cookies. Clark Bars, Sky Bars, Chunky (getting harder to find, though.). Yoo Hoo. Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray (who would have thought that celery soda would work? It does, but only the bottled kind, the canned version is awful). Speaking of Oreos, It's hard to believe that you could improve on perfection, but they came out with a version called Double Stuff Oreos, half chocolate cream, half peanut butter cream. God was with them when they thought that one up. |
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30 Mar 03 - 08:15 PM (#922129) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: CraigS I can't consider Yoo-Hoo or Cel-Ray without thinking of Kaylan and Volman's "Do You Like My New Car?" on the Frank Zappa Fillmore Live album, but it's strange to find some brands in this list that have died in GB, and some GB brands surviving in the US. And no-one said Pepsi! How about comics - Dandy, Beano, Superman, Spiderman? Liquifruta cough mixture with garlic, so everyone knows you are suffering. McGowan's Highland toffee, with the hairy cow on the packet - Macaroon and Raspberry Ripple bars - there's a lot to be found in a corner shop in Glasgow, behind the Brasso, DuraGlit and Dreft. |
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30 Mar 03 - 10:10 PM (#922195) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Troll Nehi Grape soda. Also Orange and Strawberry. Take an Orange Nehi and dump in a package of Planters Salted Peanuts. Ahhhhh. troll |
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31 Mar 03 - 10:44 AM (#922541) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST,James Players cigarettes,Lyon Brand corn syrup, Big 8 Gingerale,Tancook sauerkrat, Drum shag tobacco,Fray Bentos. |
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31 Mar 03 - 10:47 AM (#922548) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie I forgot to mention, the classic Disney animated films. Beccy, I am going to try that! It sounds great! And I love ginger ale, although nowadays I buy the diet kind. Think I will buy myself a Lite-Brite for my next birthday. :-) And let's not forget the good ol' Etch-a-Sketch. One of my favorite toys when I was a wee lassie. |
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31 Mar 03 - 10:48 AM (#922550) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: GUEST Coronation Bloody Street |
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31 Mar 03 - 10:59 AM (#922566) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Beccy I think I keep having kids 'cause they play with all my favorite toys:-) BTW, KimC- can you get Vernor's in TN? When we lived in KY we had to have people ship it to us. Beccy |
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31 Mar 03 - 01:24 PM (#922715) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Blues=Life Kareem's Sky Hook. Well, I may be the only guy using it, but I put it up last night playing high school kids, and they had no idea what it was, or how to defend against it. I'm only 42, that's not old, is it? Hook....Swish! Blues |
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31 Mar 03 - 01:30 PM (#922725) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Stilly River Sage Ipana toothpaste |
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31 Mar 03 - 01:35 PM (#922731) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Kim C Yes! Vernor's is everywhere. I must admit, however, I lean toward Canada Dry, or whatever happens to be on sale for 99 cents. More things I grew up with: Oreos!!!!! Krispy Kreme doughnuts, although they are smaller now. Likewise GooGoo clusters. |
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31 Mar 03 - 07:13 PM (#923006) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Jim Dixon Ivory Soap Dial Soap Lipton Tea Coca-Cola Pepsi-Cola Popsicles Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum – though I don't think you can buy the pieces singly any more – wait! Is that the brand of gum, or just the name of the comic that came in it? Budweiser – well, it was the first beer I ever drank, and it's still here Donald Duck comic books J. C. Penney Dixon pencils – they're still the best brand, if you like wooden ones Bayer aspirin – but now I buy generic Hostess Twinkies Premium Saltines Ritz crackers Marshmallows – well, they're pretty much the same no matter what brand you buy Graham crackers - ditto Nabisco vanilla wafers Animal crackers – is that a brand name? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Time magazine National Geographic The Reader's Digest TV Guide Monopoly Scrabble Tootsie Rolls Campbell's tomato soup, also chicken noodle soup |
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31 Mar 03 - 08:31 PM (#923038) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Mark Clark Well, I was going to say Meigs Field. - Mark |
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31 Mar 03 - 10:25 PM (#923100) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: jets If you want something thats delicious, you know well enough,you will find your wishes with MARSHMELLOW FLUFF. I believe that the above, was the first singing commercial. The fluff is still with us and my wife is still with me. |
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31 Mar 03 - 11:24 PM (#923132) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Alba Milk of Magnesia Irn bru (soda) Imperial leather soap Branston Pickles Nice people not so nice people Scott's Porridge oats |
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01 Apr 03 - 06:59 AM (#923308) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: RangerSteve Ivory Soap. canvas sneakers - Converse still makes them. |
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01 Apr 03 - 09:27 AM (#923447) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: Sandra in Sydney Lots I remember from Vicks vapa rub (got a jar in the kitchen) to various yummy sweet things & savoury stuff & household products. I didn't remember crayons - I had Derwent pencils. Eventually I had 72 full length pencils (they're on the bookshelf beside me). But only 6 or maybe 12 half length ones when I was at school. Wagon wheels (mashmallow filled biscuits in case they were only a local treat). In my day in an open waxed paper bag, now hermatically sealed in foily/plasticy stuff. Half the fun is gone. Fantales (my colleagues were sharing a bag & the wrappers yesterday). Minties, like Fantales a threat to teeth, we used to tear the wrappings around & around & around & try to make the longest trail. Skateboards - a 45 year old friend got on his nephew's skateboard recently & fell on his bum, bruising it very badly. But he still remembered how to fall, even to he had forgotten to practice a bit before trying something elaborate, BP Petrol - my parents had a garage with a shop where our dog Lassie used to eat Wagon Wheels unless Dad put the box on the counter. How many kids ate what would be called contaminated food today? And we all grew up healthy. And of course, neighbourhood singalongs where everyone entertained themselves (now we call them singing sessions) sandra |
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01 Apr 03 - 09:31 AM (#923454) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: DMcG Scott's Porage Oats - and even the packet is (more or less) unchanged! |
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01 Apr 03 - 09:44 AM (#923479) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: JennyO Arnotts biscuits - Monte Carlos, Scotch Fingers - yum! Icecreams in cones (but more flavours now) - I still like vanilla The family piano, and other items of furniture My grandmother's house, and lots of other lovely old Federation style houses Frangipanis Oh dear, I am really going on a trip down memory lane, here! |
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01 Apr 03 - 06:30 PM (#923964) Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around From: vindelis Mother's Flatley. (For those who don't know what I mean - everyone these days has a tumble dryer to do the same thing). |