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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #50 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 05:43 pm »


This was a very popular "Pop" back in the 50's...don't know if it was regional or national.   :shrug:
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #51 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 05:46 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 05:43 pm


This was a very popular "Pop" back in the 50's...don't know if it was regional or national.   :shrug:

Coca-Cola was my favorite, Squirt was #2.
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 06:34 pm »
This was better:

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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #53 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 06:35 pm »
Before microwave popcorn and air poppers, we had to risk starting a fire on the electric stove to make popcorn at home ...


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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #54 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 07:13 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 06:34 pm
This was better:



LOL!  To each their own!

IIRC, Squirt had a much more intense flavor than Upper 10. 
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #55 on: Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 08:27 pm »
Marathon Candy Bars .... Where a kid felt he was getting his money's worth. I felt rich if I had the blow-dough to by one before/after school.

Hawkin Snuff... as a kid you could run to the store at lunch break and buy a can and hustle back to class (and keep it hidden from certain teachers that gave a hoot).

Another vote for Squirt over Upper 10.
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #56 on: Today at 03:19 am »
Quote from: Sighlass on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 08:27 pm
Hawkin Snuff... as a kid you could run to the store at lunch break and buy a can and hustle back to class (and keep it hidden from certain teachers that gave a hoot).

I do not miss public school. The teachers always had to have a bug up their asses about something. There was always something they said you couldn't have or couldn't eat or couldn't say and the rules were always repressive and arbitrary. Much like the current UK government.
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #57 on: Today at 06:42 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 04:57 pm
Yep. There were 10 cent cokes and nickel Hershey bars, too. Even two for a penny candy.  Shows you what a nickel is worth now. Keep in mind the quarters were silver an so were the dimes, the silver quarters we also remember are worth $11.68 (melt value today), and the dimes are worth $4.67...and that buck twenty would have been worth $56.06 in today's money.
Showing my age, I recall using a nickel and a penny to buy a 6 oz coke in the machine. 
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« Reply #58 on: Today at 06:48 am »
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Showing my age, I recall using a nickel and a penny to buy a 6 oz coke in the machine.

I recall buying a 12oz Nehi and a Moon pie that was about 6" in diameter for a thin dime. Did that many times.
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #59 on: Today at 07:26 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on Today at 06:42 am
Showing my age, I recall using a nickel and a penny to buy a 6 oz coke in the machine.

It went up a penny? Don't remember that.
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Re: Foodstuffs and brands from your childhood
« Reply #60 on: Today at 08:09 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 05:43 pm
This was a very popular "Pop" back in the 50's...don't know if it was regional or national.   :shrug:

I drank Squirt for a while in my late teens - It was in a can by then, But I would recognize that bright yellow packaging anywhere. It might be around still :beer:
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« Reply #61 on: Today at 08:12 am »
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I drank Squirt for a while in my late teens - It was in a can by then, But I would recognize that bright yellow packaging anywhere. It might be around still :beer:

It is. I have a few cans in the fridge, but it is not the same as what it was back in the day.
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« Reply #62 on: Today at 08:17 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026 06:35 pm
Before microwave popcorn and air poppers, we had to risk starting a fire on the electric stove to make popcorn at home ...


Hah! JiffyPop is still around - It is a pretty common camp treat, shook over the fire... You'd be surprised at how many folks will pack that in - Space in a backpack is priceless, which should be an indication of how precious it is to backpackers... It takes a knack, btw, to do a perfect job with it over a fire..  happy77
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« Reply #63 on: Today at 08:21 am »
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It is. I have a few cans in the fridge, but it is not the same as what it was back in the day.

You could say that about dang near everything, and be right.  :beer:
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« Reply #64 on: Today at 08:26 am »
Quote from: Bigun on Today at 06:48 am
I recall buying a 12oz Nehi and a Moon pie that was about 6" in diameter for a thin dime. Did that many times.

One of my indelible memories is a hot Kansas day, sitting on the stoop of my uncle's general store in the shade of the porch, with all my cousins, with our feet in the gravel, eating Moon Pies and Yoohoos.  happy77 :beer:
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