Did those of you who remembered him as a boy remember him wearing a red hoodie? Because I think I mixed this skit up with a picture book that features a little boy taking a similar walk.
Same here! 
I remember that too! I’m OLD!
What are you talking about? Everyone KNOWS it’s bread, milk and EGGS! 
and SQUICK!
Abra!
Cerrado!
ABIERTO!
Cerrado!
And yes, pretty much all the Spanish I know even now comes from Sesame Street…
Eh? Stick of butter? Not really a Sesame Street kind of reference . . .
The poll should have asked for our ages. Some of us were *Howdy Doody *kids.
The poll should have asked for our ages. Some of us were *Howdy Doody *kids.
Not really a “keeping your breakfast down” kind of reference either…
Another vote for “Thou”.
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. One of my favorites.
A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, a dozen eggs, and a paper of pins. The child gets to the store and asks for a loaf of pins, a quart of eggs, a dozen milk, and a paper of bread. The storekeeper gives the correct items, the child knows he messed up asking for them, and they discuss how the storekeeper knew what was meant.
I thought it was from a teaching story about how quantities of things are labelled differently. I remember it from an early reading book.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness–
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
I’m afraid stick of butter makes me think of Last Tango in Paris.