# You'd think everyone would know about **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800 "2025-08-07T06:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/481 "2025-09-01T23:13:16Z")
My grandma too. It was still understood around 1984 (when I got mine as my first computer) why the Commodore C-64 was called breadbox. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Commodore-64-Computer-FL.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Commodore-64-Computer-FL.png) ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/482 "2025-09-02T01:59:39Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@Johanna](#): > > > > My parents had a breadbox when I was little. > > We had one too. We had one that had a total of five compartments. The bottom one was the biggest and ran the full width and length of the box, while there were four smaller compartments above the actual bread box part of the bread box that were marked for flour, sugar, coffee, and tea, IIRC. Oddly enough, I don’t think we ever kept bread in the bread box. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/483 "2025-09-02T04:04:03Z")
We ate cheap store-bought white bread, and the standard 1-pound loaf of sandwich bread was too long to fit in the breadbox… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/484 "2025-09-02T10:29:52Z")
> [@ricepad](#): > > Oddly enough, I don’t think we ever kept bread in the bread box. We have one. We keep tea and sugar in it. Bread goes in the pantry, never the refrigerator. Refers do weird things to bread. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/485 "2025-09-02T13:00:19Z")
We kept our bread in the microwave, otherwise the cat would eat it. 😺 ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/486 "2025-09-02T13:04:32Z")
We used our breadbox to take the cat to the vet. 1960s before pet carriers. I never owned one and think my mom got rid of hers in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/487 "2025-09-02T17:09:15Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Refers do weird things to bread. QFT. We still have a breadbox. It’s handy because it’s just a bin so all kinds of bread fit – not a baguette, though. It also keeps the bread better than anywhere else we’ve stored it. And, yeah, it’s kinda bulky but it fits into an overwise unaccessible corner where it’s not hard to pull it out. ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/488 "2025-09-23T20:56:10Z")
Back to the cursive writing, which I do sometimes but usually in some weird mixed-print-cursive hybrid. I just had to look up a cursive “z” and would never write it that way now. I still can’t recall ever writing it that way except (I guess) in the 5th grade (hand) writing classes, and that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/489 "2025-09-27T13:50:42Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It’s actually a cute thing he does (I think it’s cute anyway) where he often uses one word when he meant another, or unwittingly combines words and metaphors. When I was a student, there was a misspelled complaint posted on the back of the door of one of the labs. To which someone had graffitied a correction. To which someone had graffitied the note “pendantic prick”. To which someone had graffitied the correction: “pedantic prick” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/490 "2025-09-27T22:03:44Z")
That’s good! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/491 "2025-09-27T22:29:30Z")
The girl-child told someone everything was hunky-dory. They were perplexed. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/492 "2025-09-27T22:59:09Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > We still have a breadbox. It’s handy because it’s just a bin so all kinds of bread fit Our breadbox was originally to protect our bread from our cat, who helped himself to many a nibble before we locked up our bread. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/493 "2025-09-27T23:41:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The girl-child told someone everything was hunky-dory. They were perplexed. Of course the correct phrase is [‘honky donky’](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky_Donkey)or [‘hunky-dunky’](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037595/quotes/?item=qt2079415). [Related thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honky-donkey-or-hunky-dunky/975180) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/494 "2025-09-30T11:49:21Z")
Ours too. Then I ended up storing tea bags and sugar in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800.md?page=24)