# Awfully old for your first time! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707 "2020-06-15T16:12:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/1 "2020-06-15T16:12:29Z")
Over the weekend, we were at some friends’ house. They had a fire, and we made s’mores. Their 90 year old mother is staying with them, and asked if we would make her a s’more, since she’d never had one. Struck me as odd that someone in her/our “group” would have never had a s’more, especially since they owned a vacation home in Wisconsin, at which they often had campfires w/ their kids. Wondering about any similar experiences, when someone was older than you would have expected before experiencing something for the first time. And, while we’re at it, have you never had a s’more? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/2 "2020-06-15T16:17:35Z")
Had my first one when I was about 49 years old. Kind of odd since campfires are common on my property and well, Colorado and camping. I actually did not like it and threw half of it in the fire. They sound fantastic, as I like all the ingredients, but didn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/3 "2020-06-15T16:23:16Z")
I was 23 the first time I traveled by plane. It seems like most people people of my age group and socio-economic status took a least a couple of trips by plane as children, but my family always traveled by car for vacations. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/4 "2020-06-15T16:23:18Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Had my first one when I was about 49 years old. Kind of odd since campfires are common on my property and well, Colorado and camping. I actually did not like it and threw half of it in the fire. They sound fantastic, as I like all the ingredients, but didn’t work for me. Just about the same for me too. I didn’t like them either. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/5 "2020-06-15T16:29:22Z")
I was 47 before I’d even heard of a “smore” and that was from our son’s then fiance (since divorced) who was from Wisconsin (ironically enough). Anyway, once I heard melted marshmallows were involved, I realized I hadn’t missed much.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/6 "2020-06-15T16:40:24Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Had my first one when I was about 49 years old. Kind of odd since campfires are common on my property and well, Colorado and camping. I actually did not like it and threw half of it in the fire. They sound fantastic, as I like all the ingredients, but didn’t work for me. This almost exactly, (I might have been a little younger! And not in Colorado!) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/7 "2020-06-15T16:42:11Z")
Never had one, because they sound like a good way to ruin perfectly delectable toasted marshmallows with icky melted chocolate. I was 20 before I had black pepper. We only had white, growing up. I had it on my first proper pizza, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/8 "2020-06-15T16:43:31Z")
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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/9 "2020-06-15T16:44:47Z")
I’m over 60 and I’ve never had a smore. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/10 "2020-06-15T16:46:33Z")
I’ve still never lived in a house with central air conditioning, at 63. And I live south of the Mason-Dixon. Smores seem to be to be one of those things kids would invent for themselves the first time they’re left alone in the house. You’d come home and they’d be sick. I’ve had them, and they are tasty and novel up to about halfway through chewing the first bite. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/11 "2020-06-15T16:49:41Z")
I’m not a big fan myself (I like them MUCH better w/ a smear of crunchy PB), but as a middle class white kid from Chicago who was in boy scouts and whose sisters were in girl scouts, I was at least aware they existed, and had the opportunity to taste one. And in the movie The Sandlot, there is an extended scene about one kid who never heard of them. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/12 "2020-06-15T16:50:45Z")
Over 60 and never heard of them until maybe the late 80s. We roasted marshmallows over fires, and that seemed like something everyone did. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/13 "2020-06-15T17:00:21Z")
I didn’t hear about them until I was in my 20s living in Colorado. We used to toast marshmallows, but the melted chocolate thing was new to me. I didn’t learn to ride a bicycle until my mid 20s either. (I had a tricycle when I was small.) Growing up in New York City the Subway took me anywhere I cared to go. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/14 "2020-06-15T17:03:22Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I was 23 the first time I traveled by plane. It seems like most people people of my age group and socio-economic status took a least a couple of trips by plane as children, but my family always traveled by car for vacations. Yeah, I was about that sort of age as well. Similar experience. In fact, the first time I flew was actually in a helicopter, in Arromanches, France, viewing the remains of the Mulberry harbour. j ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/15 "2020-06-15T17:10:35Z")
I’m 69, and if i’ve ever had one I don’t remember it. They look like a mess. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/16 "2020-06-15T17:18:31Z")
Not to be a dick, but lots of 90 year olds are trying something for the first time, as far as they remember at least. My father, while quite compos mentis when he was 90, had forgotten many of the stories we would tell about our own childhoods 40+ years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/17 "2020-06-15T17:24:52Z")
I was in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Went camping several times in the Boy Scouts because our troop had its own camp (a pretty sweet deal). Growing up with my family, we went trailer camping all across the USA. My parents are from the Philippines, and I was born there, but still they researched and fed to us a lot of American foods. Still, with all of that I didn’t have my first smore until I was in my 30s. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/18 "2020-06-15T17:30:30Z")
Randomly sitting around with Grandma one Easter and the family decided to watch _The Wizard of Oz_ because it was on TV. Grandma (at least in her late 70s by that time) was super pumped because she’d never seen it! To be fair to Grandma she was raised Amish, and Oz came out when she was 9. But she still managed to miss the movie in the 60-some years she was a car-driving, electricity-using Mennonite. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/19 "2020-06-15T17:30:54Z")
Never had a smore in my life. Hate marshmallows. I even make my Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter instead of the squishy abominations. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707/20 "2020-06-15T17:32:06Z")
We never made s’mores in Cub Scouts or in Boy Scouts. I think I was in my 20s when I first had one. Not a big fan, but it’s something to do over a fire. We had some earlier this year. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awfully-old-for-your-first-time/855707.md?page=2)