# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/21 "2012-05-09T17:45:59Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > [A Loaf of Bread…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C782-Xf4NPk&feature=related) Interesting. I knew immediately what the OP meant and remember seeing it a lot as a kid, but didn’t remember the little girl being black. Guess it was from before I learned to see color. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/22 "2012-05-09T17:50:52Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > 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. At least you didn’t try to retrace your steps by looking for freaked-out psychedelic Yellow-Submarine-esque landmarks, like in that other Sesame Street cartoon! ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/23 "2012-05-09T17:57:25Z")
I got it. I could have sworn it had been carton instead of container though. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/24 "2012-05-09T18:00:07Z")
Anyone remember this one: it was a mini documentary about a girl who goes to visit her grandma on a farm and she picks (maybe) corn on the cob, tomatoes…and it ends up with her cooking and eating the veggies she pics. No songs, no animation. But I remember it and I’d love to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/25 "2012-05-09T18:01:23Z")
To this day, I can recite “Wanda the Witch” by heart. My favorite, aside from the Ladybug Picnic, is [My Martian Cutie.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOAthOufeIU) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/26 "2012-05-09T18:04:30Z")
ME, Claudius! One Two Three Four Five SixSEVENeight NIIIIIIINNNNNNE TENNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!\* - Trivia - the “singer” for that bit was Grace Slick. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/27 "2012-05-09T18:17:24Z")
Coincidence! I was talking about this particular little story this past weekend. I would be afraid to count the number of times I said, “And a stick of BUTTAH!” It was… more than once. ---
**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, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/28 "2012-05-09T18:46:10Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > ME, Claudius! > > One Two Three Four Five SixSEVENeight NIIIIIIINNNNNNE TENNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!\* > > - Trivia - the “singer” for that bit was Grace Slick. Ha! I had no idea that was her! Interestingly, besides Grace Slick in those toons and the Pointer Sisters in the pinball toons, CTW also got Tom Lehrer (“Silent E” and “-LY”), Mel Brooks (various voicework in animated shorts), Joan Rivers (the narrator of “Letterman”) and Gene Wilder (Letterman himself) to do voices/songs on The Electric Company, too. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/29 "2012-05-09T18:54:46Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > 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” It is certainly all right to cry. That’s \*Free to Be You and Me \*(Rosey Grier, specifically), though, not _Sesame Street_. Same 70s hip-and-happy-kids vibe, though. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/30 "2012-05-09T20:57:11Z")
Chef: Seven Root beer Flooooats! (proceeds to fall down the stairs) ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/31 "2012-05-09T20:58:33Z")
How about [Fat Cat Sat Hat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei1DvIgW_PU)? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/32 "2012-05-09T23:22:20Z")
[One bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmgOrhELXs) ---
**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, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/33 "2012-05-09T23:45:41Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Interesting. I knew immediately what the OP meant and remember seeing it a lot as a kid, but didn’t remember the little girl being black. Guess it was from before I learned to see color. I remembered the character as a boy, but had the ethnicity right. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/34 "2012-05-10T01:06:52Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I remembered the character as a boy, but had the ethnicity right. Same here. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/35 "2012-05-10T04:03:01Z")
“Thank you, Mommy.” I drive Mr. S nuts sometimes repeating this little ditty. He never watched Sesame Street, as it was after his time as a kid. I always felt bad – really bad – for the chef falling down the stairs. And I still do. He was always so proud of his creations, and they always ended up ruined. ☹ ---
**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 10, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/36 "2012-05-10T05:43:24Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I remembered the character as a boy. There is a version with a boy, where he gets distracted by seeing other things on the way to the store. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/37 "2012-05-10T06:21:30Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > …THOU! (I used to go for a jug of wine, but these days I have to settle for a container of milk) Aha, I’m not the only one who thought it some kind of non-alcoholic version of Omar Khayyam. 🙂 (Never seen “Sesame Street” either). ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/38 "2012-05-10T14:44:04Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I remembered the character as a boy, but had the ethnicity right. > [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > Same here. Weird. Me three. When someone mentioned that the character was a girl up top, I was all, “It was a girl?” I totally remember it as a little boy. ---
**Author:** ![BillDozer74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BillDozer74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillDozer74)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/39 "2012-05-10T19:56:26Z")
[Won’t you listen to me, please?](http://youtu.be/Tvv5gL1pGb0) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-of-bread-a-container-of-milk-and/621365/40 "2012-05-10T21:29:02Z")
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