Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I still eat several per week.
The 1966 Batman TV show…for completely different reasons.
I’d swear that she’s just lip-synching and that Barry Gibb is doing the actual vocals.
Funny you mention M&M’s, I was going to bring those candies up on the companion thread to this one. M&Ms were certainly never high quality chocolate, but they were acceptable. I’ve tried them a few times in recent years and found they seem to have declined. One, they are damnably expensive, two they have strange notions on what “Family Size” ought to mean. And they aren’t very tasty, which isn’t saying much.
The preferred method of consumption when I was a kid was to ingest a large handful and patiently wait until they were just ready to melt completely, and then enjoy chewing an improbably large amount of molten chocolatey chocolate goodness.
Looney Tunes.
Slurpees…Even though they don’t come in superhero collector cups anymore.
Nestle’s Quik (or Nesquik as it’s now labelled). I have always loved that stuff (in its powdered form)
Motorcycles. My mom was a hippie, and I knew I wanted to hang with the rednecks on dirt bikes in the gravel pit from the get go. I forged her signature on my MC learner’s permit. I bought a sport bike (GPZ750) in 1988 and did 12,000 miles around the US, much like our Thule. Now I stick to dirt because you WILL get hurt, but you’re unlikely to die.
Cats.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Seventies music.
Hostess snack cakes (though I don’t eat them often these days)
Stephen King books.
M&Ms.
Not sure which thread was the first one, but only noticed this one today. When people in the other one kept going on about crap cartoons that their young self loved but adult self hated, this was the first counter-example that came to my mind.
Even as a youngster I noticed that LT was distinctly different from all other cartoons on the TV at the time (60’s-70’s, what TV Tropes calls the Dork Age of Animation). Characters were vividly animated with tons of distinct facial expressions and bodily contortions. The humor could be surprisingly deep, the gags genuinely hilarious, the characters very well drawn (in both senses of the term). So when Scooby Doo or the Flintstones then came on, the difference was often very stark.
Of course, I now know why; Warner Brothers pretty much gave the gang at Termite Terrace carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. The humor was often more geared towards adults since the shorts were originally shown before full length theater films.
I still watch a few per week-the best remain highly entertaining even if I have memorized every gag and twist since I was 10 years old.
“Don’t you worry
Never fear
Robin Hood will
Soon be here.”
I share a lot of what has already been mentioned; this thread is bringing on the nostalgia, big time.
I don’t think I saw anyone mention amusement park rides and especially roller coasters. I LIVED for the family’s annual visit to Disneyland and when I got older I gravitated to the more thrill ride kind of parks, like Magic Mountain (six flags). Now that I’m returning to CA, one of the first things I want to do is go to Knott’s Berry Farm. To me, there is still nothing better than a roller coaster.
Or, in other words…
Hang on, Tom! I thought it was faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money.
I was a big fan as a kid but tried one recently. It was marginal. I also loved Chef Boyardee pizza mix and tried one of those recently. That’s still pretty dang good. About the same price as a (blah) cheap frozen pizza but with a little more work.
When I was in 5th grade, my favorite movie was Clue.
It’s still amazing, though not my favorite anymore. Clue is, however, an amazing comedy and one of the best of all time.
It is a fantastic movie - I worked at a video store and we rotated between Clue & The Princess Bride (with an occasional Better off Dead break) almost every night. My favorite part is when Madeline Kahn described about how much she hated her dead husband …“Flames!..on the side of my face…”
Yes! And if you’re flying at sunrise or sunset, or a night with a moon, a window seat is a joy. I remember being 5 years old and seeing sunrise over Hawaii from a plane window. Glorious!
I’ve also seen Fuji, Mt Rainier, the coast of Ireland, the Chilean Andes and Yosemite from airplane windows.
Pizza.
Fart jokes.
Laughing at fart jokes while eating pizza.
Looking through binoculars or a telescope. When i was very young, CrackerJack had plastic toys as prizes. One time I got a little telescope with two plastic lenses. Looking through it seemed like seeing a different world. I would often lie on my back with my dad’s binoculars on summer nights, peering into the dark sky. Magical.