I'm so old I Remember when:

[Canadian Wind]

Or Poutine (which I never did like).

I... I don't think I want to know you anymore...

((JOKING!))

 

[sdm111]

Do you have gravy on yours? Gets real messy

Then there are Newfoundland fries: fries covered in cooked ground beef and gravy.

Or Poutine (which I never did like).

Anyways all very messy eating with your fingers!

Sheesh now I am hungry!

French fry poboy sounds good! Steak fries and brown gravy, mmmmm. I remember when the French fry poboy was the cheap one. Not anymore

 

[Ponypoor]

I... I don't think I want to know you anymore...

((JOKING!))

Sorry I am not that in to cheese

 

[Ponypoor]

French fry poboy sounds good! Steak fries and brown gravy, mmmmm. I remember when the French fry poboy was the cheap one. Not anymore

What’s a poboy?

 

[Evadig]

What’s a poboy?

It’s a bit like a subway sandwich. It’s good !

 

[microchick]

I'm so old I remember going to the little mom and pop store after school and buying a half a small paper bag of 'penny candy' for a dime. You could pick what you wanted and many were 5 pieces for a penny. I still remember the elderly Italian couple who patiently doled out candy for us. Sweet patient people they were who loved kids.

 

[tripletfeb]

I'm so old I remember going to the little mom and pop store after school and buying a half a small paper bag of 'penny candy' for a dime. You could pick what you wanted and many were 5 pieces for a penny. I still remember the elderly Italian couple who patiently doled out candy for us. Sweet patient people they were who loved kids.

We had a small candy store in our town too. Blackwoods. We would spend all our babysitting money there. Aisles and aisles of candy. Tootsie Rolls were a penny

 

[EmmaDonovan]

There's a shop called the Candy Palace at Disneyland (Anaheim) that sold penny candy when I was a kid. My parents wisely made us wait until the end of the day to go in there, when we were all tuckered out and just wanted to get to the car so we could fall asleep on the ride home and didn't linger forever gazing at all the offerings.

The shop was themed as a turn-of-the-century general store. We walked around and picked our favorites from wooden bins with glass doors, big wood barrels, and so on. We collected it all in a small metal tray which we took to the cashier to ring up.

No computers back then. I always marveled that the cashiers had memorized the individual prices of dozens and dozens and dozens of types of candies that were anywhere from a penny to 25 cents - that was the cost of a small package of Disneyland divinity which is one of the most heavenly things I have ever tasted. No bar codes on the candies, and no high fructose corn syrup in them, either, sweets still tasted good!

 

[microchick]

Funny, there were about 4 of the little mom and pop stores close to where we lived when I was born but that one always is the one I remember the fondest. I don't think I ever heard that sweet couple ever lose their patience with the kids clustered around that candy counter.

I also remember the old A&P grocery store where my mother bought groceries. Can even remember riding in the kiddy seat in the cart and watching her get the coffee ground. Back in the day where groceries were priced with a sticker on top of each can. No scanners. Each item was separately entered into the cash register by a checker and the cash register was this huge thing with keys on it like an old adding machine.

So much of the charm of the gone by era that kids today can't understand.

I worked with my husband in his medical practice. We still used a typewriter to make labels for individual charts. Once had a mother ask me if she could bring her kiddo back to my office so he could see my typewriter. He had no idea what one looked like. He did. I set him down, gave him a piece of paper and let him pound away at it. He was grinning from ear to ear.

So yeah, I also remember REAL typewriters and taking typewriting in college.

 

[Alibreit]

I remember watching tv the morning the challenger exploded.