# A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365 "2012-05-09T07:50:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/1 "2012-05-09T07:50:12Z")
Do you remember? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/2 "2012-05-09T09:22:40Z")
…a stick of butter. [spoiler]Sesame Street? I think it was a little kid who was trying to remember a shopping list for his mother, and kept repeating it to himself. It’s funny, I can remember his voice, intonation and accent clearly, but nothing else about the cartoon.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/3 "2012-05-09T10:28:39Z")
Yes, of course. Back then I always wondered where you could buy a stick of butter, but finally saw butter sold that way as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/4 "2012-05-09T10:56:23Z")
I always hear “stick of butter” in that voice. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/5 "2012-05-09T11:42:24Z")
It’s all about sending your four year old down the street alone, visibly clutching money. Also not dissimilar to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPcQeMEnFc). ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/6 "2012-05-09T12:02:29Z")
It was a little girl (a little Black girl IIRC). Love that bit. In fact, I just quoted it last weekend, as I left my husband waiting in the car while I ran into Walgreens for a few things. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/7 "2012-05-09T12:26:05Z")
French toast needs a stick of butter yes, did I remember? ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/8 "2012-05-09T12:46:12Z")
Onetwothreefourfive Sixseveneightnineten Eleventwelve! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/9 "2012-05-09T13:11:32Z")
I remember it as “a gallon of milk.” ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/10 "2012-05-09T13:11:45Z")
To this day I still wander down the dairy aisle at the grocery store thinking “A loaf of breay-ud, a container of mi-ulk, an’ a stick a buttah.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/11 "2012-05-09T13:35:37Z")
But how many ladybugs came to the ladybug picnic? ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/12 "2012-05-09T13:53:21Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > But how many ladybugs came to the ladybug picnic? Twelve. And they played jump rope, but the rope, it broke, So they just sat around telling Knock-Knock jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/13 "2012-05-09T13:55:26Z")
I remember. One time when I was a wee lad, I got lost in the woods and I tried to find where I was going by walking backwards like in the Sesame Street cartoon where the guy walks backwards to find his elephant. Needless to say, it didn’t work out too well for me. Don’t worry though, I’m much better now. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/14 "2012-05-09T14:00:19Z")
And they brought sack lunches so they had sack races, They fell on their backs and they fell on their faces, The ladybugs twelve at the ladybug picnic! I’ve still never seen only a stick of butter for sale. A big one pound block, yes, (not subdivided into sticks) which I guess could count as a stick, but sticks only come in foursomes as far as I’ve seen. Even the margarine, on the very rare occasion when I bought it (once), was packaged in sticks four-to-a box, as well as in the tubs. (Weirdly enough, the box was long and flat; the sticks weren’t piled atop each other into a cube like the butter packages. Instead, they were just in a row. Maybe it has something to do with the powerful butter lobby.) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/15 "2012-05-09T14:21:41Z")
[A Loaf of Bread…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C782-Xf4NPk&feature=related) [Ladybug Picnic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0) [The Best Damn Pinball Machine EVER! (and this is the Pointer Sisters singing…)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBWxX3713gc&feature=related) [Alligator King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg71djeZfos&feature=fvsr) [Fairy Alphabet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eLPPxSdwJw&feature=relmfu) [Capital I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=losBZCpzbi8&feature=related) [I Get Mad!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bOwDXAu4M&feature=related) From when Sesame Street was good (i.e., pre-Elmo)… ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/16 "2012-05-09T14:23:50Z")
It came right to me and made me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/17 "2012-05-09T14:47:27Z")
“Ten turtles talkin’ on the telephone, talkin’ to their grocerymen (lalalalaaa)”; I loved most of those, and watched Sesame Street for years with my kids (didn’t exist when I was a kid). ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/18 "2012-05-09T15:26:40Z")
…THOU! (I used to go for a jug of wine, but these days I have to settle for a container of milk) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/19 "2012-05-09T15:29:50Z")
Whenever a co-worker starts bitching about workload, or management, or office politics I start up with my singing: “It’s all right to cryyyyy Crying gets the sad out of you It’s all right to cryyyy It might make you feel better” Spoken: “It’s all right to cry, little boy I know some big boys that cry too” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/20 "2012-05-09T15:32:00Z")
_… what are you talking about?_ I never watched Sesame Street. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365.md?page=2)