[Sca-cooks] (OT) Space Food Sticks

[Elaine Koogler]

I guess that this may be a game of "one-upsmanship"....my memories include
the first time I saw television...aged 6!  I remember listening to my
favorite shows on radio, including Let's Pretend on Saturday mornings.  I
don't really remember a lot about WWII, though US involvement started about
a month and a half after I was born....so I'm your basic 1941 model...rather
creaky, finish beginning to crackle here and there, upholstery still intact
but a bit rumpled, lots of mileage, multiple owners but well-proven in
stressful situations.

Kiri
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> I actually remember most of this stuff. Like some truly atrocious dessert
> mixes. The layered jello parfait stuff that layered itself. Real Fresca.
> TAB. Walter Cronkite. Hats and things made of crochet and cut-up beer cans
> or plastic tubs. Ironed hair, knee socks, short skirts. Evel Kneviel.
Those
> snap-on straw-like things that you put on your spokes- they went
> clickety-clickety as you rode. Mad magazine. Percolated coffee, hearing it
> go blorp-blorp-blorp in the morning. Laugh-in. Quisp and Quake. The jars
of
> peanut butter and jelly, in stripes. All salad was iceberg lettuce,
> dressing was 1000 Island, bleu cheese, French, or Italian. Bread was brown
> or white. Tylenol was Rx only. My mom took Empirin for headaches. TP was
> colored and had little flowers on it. Juice came in orange and apple.
Prune
> for geezers. Pizza was exotic. Pee-Chees that had the same pictures on
them
> that our parents scribbled on when they were in school. (The tennis-player
> on the front always got it first.) Cragmont pop in all sorts of flavors.
> The glue that passed for oatmeal in camp. Grilled cheese sandwich made
with
> sliced American (don't forget to take off the plastic!) on Wonder bread,
> served with a mug of Campbell's Tomato...
>
> Enough. I feel old. (grump grump grump)
>
> 'Lainie