# We have an heirloom!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-an-heirloom/775105>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-an-heirloom/775105 "2016-12-19T01:56:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-an-heirloom/775105/21 "2016-12-20T20:57:29Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> I remember finding boxes with the old K-Mart stickers on them, and the family prize was a can of Schilling paprika, the round red metal kind, with a sticker on the bottom from a grocery chain that closed in the 1960s. I don’t know how old it was, but I remember it being on the shelf when I was a wee one, several years before that. (My mother was raised as a Scandinavian farm cook; what she was doing with a can of paprika is a complete mystery.)
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> Fun to find this stuff.

A friend’s mother just died. His daughter inherited his Scandanvian mother’s “spice cabinet” - one can of ground pepper that was half used and at least 50 years old.

I had to go buy thread for a project I was doing - the thread I had kept breaking - it was from my grandmother’s sewing basket, was on a wooden spool and labeled 5¢.

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