My “daily drivers,” in order of which I owned/drove them:
Only missing the 1970s; I drove my parents’ 1977 Cadillac Sedan DeVille when I was in high school (and a bit while I was in college), but my mom was always that car’s primary driver.
In the automobile poll I checked every box from 1950 to 2000 except for 1970. I’ve been driving a long time.
My first car was my grandfather’s 1951 Chrysler Windsor. The first (and only) brand-new one was a 1968 VW bug. The latest year is a 2001 Accord bought to replace the 1999 Accord that got smashed by a sleeping driver.
I got my first drivers license in 1996, which probably makes me one of the younger posters here. My daily drivers, in the order in in which I drove them:
I object. I don’t like them cut at all, except if I am eating it with a fork and knife. If so, I’ll cut as I eat.
Which triangles? Single cut or X cut?
The “something” that makes me think I should wash a new garment is “it is underwear or sheets”
I suppose I would wash anything that smelled funny (if I bought it at all) but I can’t recall that ever happening.
Oh, and I sometimes buy used stuff on ebay. I wash those, too.
In the car poll, I am also missing the 1970’s.
1967 Ford Mustang - One of my Dad’s cars that became “mine” when I got my license. I used it through college and did not appreciate it nearly as much as I should have.
1980 Chevy Citation - A craptastic little box I bought from my Mom when I moved out of the house. But it was the first car I ever owned so it keeps a special place in my heart.
1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass - When I started working and banking some money I bought this new and drove it to death. 140,000-plus miles later I replaced it with:
1981 Ford Mustang - Because I was having some money problems I couldn’t afford much. The ‘81 was a pale imitation of the ‘Stang’s heyday, but it was a cheap used car that ran.
1996 Mercury Sable - When I got back on my feet I bought a one-year-old low mileage sedan that served me well for a few years.
2001 Chrysler Sebring convertible - I loved that car, but after six digits on the odometer it starting having too many problems and I found a relatively low cost replacement.
200…7, maybe? Dodge Caliber - A decent enough ride to and from work, if by no means inspiring to drive. I bought it from a Carmax and sold it back to them when I moved out of state.
2013 Toyota Prius - Bought new when I got to San Francisco, before realizing I didn’t really need a car. Just two days ago I rolled the odometer to 10,000 miles after 10 years. This car may last me the rest of my life.
As for the “Kool-Aid” question - I drink bottled water in class on a regular basis. To the bottle I add a flavor packet (no sugar.) The last few weeks it has been Wyler’s Light Arnold Palmer, which makes the water tea-colored (Duh.)
I think I drank Kool-Aid or something similar occasionally as a child. So something over 50 years ago and maybe over 60.
I no longer remember the circumstances, but it was probably more than once, and the circumstances may well have varied.
– what was that stuff where you dropped colored tablets into a glass and watched them fizz before drinking? (No, not an antacid; a kids’ drink.) It may have actually been called Fizzies – yes, google tells me there was such a thing under that name.
I usually wash things before wearing, not only if they smell weird; but occasionally I don’t, so the always choice is wrong too.
By “smells funny” I was thinking of that “new clothes smell.” I’m not sure how to describe it, but it’s that sort of chemically smell that new clothes sometimes have, which I assume comes maybe from the dye or something else from the manufacturing process. I just got some new jeans recently, and I was struck by the fact that they didn’t have that smell. Which made me go “oh, I guess I don’t need to wash these first.” Which prompted the poll.
Need an option for “I possibly had one of those drinks at some kid’s house when I was a child.”
Since the Kool-Aid poll seems to be targeted at those who drink drinks marketed toward kids, I didn’t know if my daily Crystal Lite intake would qualify, so I did not vote.
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We drank Hawaiian Punch. It came in a big can (1/2 gallon?) that you had to open with the old type of can opener.
like this, for you younger folks
We drank that all the time when we were kids, too; my mom called it “Hulie Punch.”
They made fun of that can in a scene in Top Secret!, when the bad guys try to kill Omar Sharif’s character by locking him in a car, then running it through a compactor:
I voted that I had red drink from powder within the last decade because I retired from the army less than ten years ago. When you get chow in the field your choices are the water you drink all day, coffee or some sort of colored drink that comes from a powder. I don’t drink coffee.
Wow. That’s it! I shudder at the thought now, but we drank a lot of that in the 60s.
I had a Chinese friend who called the heel the “skin” of the bread. I don’t like crusts (too dry and tasteless as mentioned), so I eat them first, then go on to the good part of the sandwich. The only bread whose crust I’ll eat happily is the rye bread at Langer’s Deli (on the #19, natch). It’s crisp, but not dry, and you can bite through it without pulling inches of more crust off…I hate that.
I only did not see three of those movies. I’m impressed by those who have seen more than that. But I know all about the ones I haven’t seen.
We had one of those when I was a kid. We called it a trundle bed.
“My” first car was a Plymouth Valiant. The one with the push button gear shift.
That’s usually an electrolyte drink like Gatorade.
I grew up drinking Kool-aid. Instead of adding the full cup of sugar to it, Mom would empty the packet of powder and then fill it up with sugar, so we probably only got 1/4 cup of sugar in the drinks when she made it. I understand, she had been a chubby kid, and it affected many of her food choices for us, but when we discovered how much better the neighbors’ versions of Kool-aid tasted, we went on strike until she doubled her usual amount.
I didn’t like sandwiches when I was a kid, so the crust made no difference. I’m sure if I asked mom to cut the crust off, I would have gotten The Look
Self checkout is great.
Though for some people it’s not the best option. If you have a lot of produce, or if you have little patience for technology, you should probably just go through the regular checkout line.
People who hate it will still try to use it because the line is almost always shorter and/or moving faster, but once they’re at the machine and struggling with it, getting pissed off, then yelling at the poor store employee who has to deal with them now, it’s really not saving them any time.
Back to the “cooking with alcohol” poll:
Vanilla extract: French toast, and baking, if baking counts as cooking.
Wine: Various pasta sauces, chicken marsala, the beef stroganoff I made the other night had a splash of white wine in it. And on my birthday I like to make filet mignon with a red wine and mushroom sauce.
Beer: Bratwurst, beer battered fish, corned been with Guinness.
Hard liquor: There’s a beef stew recipe I make that has brandy in it. And a coconut mango chicken dish with rum in it I’ve made a few times. And that candied sweet potato recipe I mentioned last Thanksgiving. It came out really well using brandy instead of bourbon, BTW.
Sherry: My chicken marsala has sherry in it, too. And chicken tetrazzini.
Liqueur: As mentioned before, try a splash of Grand Mariner in French Toast
Sake/mirin: It’s been a long time since I’ve cooked with those, but I had a bunch of Japanese recipes that used them that I haven’t made in ages.