[Sca-cooks] (OT) Space Food Sticks

[Elaine Koogler]

Yup...here in the south, the snack of choice was "RC and a Moon Pie".  I've
discovered that there is a web site where you can purchase RC
(http://www.boiledpeanuts.com/), and I'm seeing Moon Pies in all sorts of
places...like the Shell Station fast food shop in our town!  Talk about
Retro!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----

> Oh shades of misspent youth, we used to do this in Mobile in 1966.  You
take
> a bottle (cans suck, you can't see the effect) of your favorite soda,
> usually a cola, tear open a pack of peanuts (vending machine pack), and
> coiling your thumb and forefinger around the lip of the bottle for a
funnel,
> you pour the peanuts into the coal.  It fizzes up real neat.  Then you
drink
> your cola and crunch up your peanuts right out of the bottle.  It was
> supposed to give an extra kick (like aspirin in cola), but that was bull.
>
> The "in" drink that year was Tab.  RC was the common cola of the South.
> Pepsi is favored where there is a sweet-tooth.
>
> Bear
>