The other day, I realized how much I miss paper wrappers on straws that were loose enough that you could shoot them across the table at your brother. The wrappers are so tight nowadays, it actually takes effort to extract your sipping utensil.
What other minor things out of the past do people miss?
The 7up ads with the little red dots wearing sunglasses. Especially the Christmas ones.
Paper straws you could unwind.
A simple pleasure.
I remember the gas heater at the top of the stairs in the old cold house. I used to perch there and read for many, many hours. I used to make toast holding it against the burner with a fork. I spent quite a lot of time living in Tolkien’s world there.
I miss those little candy dots (“buttons”) that were stuck on to rolls of paper. I haven’t seen those since I was a little kid on New York.
Plastic spoons that you could stomp on and produce a satisfying BANG with little shards shooting across the floor. The ones they have now just bend no matter how hard you step on them.
Being able to turn the pop tab around on a can of soda and flicking it so it pops off and flies across the room.
Well, if you were on New York, you must not have been that little. Har!
The key on the Spam cans that you would use to open them. I had quite the collection.
Years before the internet, there was a flavored peanut butter called “Google”; it came in flavors like chocolate, cinnamon, banana, etc.
God, I loved that stuff! My fave after-school snack when I was in middle school (circa '74) was a piece of bread spread heavily with Google!
Oh, my! I could spend all freakin’ day and half of a paycheck on that website, and not eat ‘real’ food for about two weeks after my shipment arrived!
I came in here to mention those, how random is that? Also, the candy that was essentially powdered sugar and a candy tongue depressor that you licked and dipped in the sugar.
pssst! ‘Koogle’
Koogle, and the flavors were chocolate, cinnamon, banana and vanilla. The plastic lids were dark brown, tan, yellow and blue respectically.
I loved that stuff.
They still sell those at the convenience store near my kids’ school.
Fun Dip!! They still sell those, too!
Apparently, I had the name slightly wrong. :o
It was still a jar full of awesome, though!
I just got a fun dip from the ice cream man this past summer. They’re certainly not gone. And the buttons might be called something else now, but I’ve had those as recently as 5 years ago, at least. I’m sure you could find them in a regular store if you looked hard enough.
I remember the commercial for Koogle went: (singing) “Here comes Koogle with the Koo Koo Koogley eyes!”
I remember there was a set of eyes on the label.
