[Sca-cooks] (OT) Space Food Sticks

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Soon, their journey to the south side shall be complete . . . today, the
moon pies, tomorrow the boiled peanuts, sometime next week, grits! (though
it shall be disguised as polenta so as to fool the effete, pretentious
nor'eastern snobs . . .)


    Sieggy, der Sudenmensch

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>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