For some reason "soda" to me is like scraping fingernails down a chalkboard.

I don't know why......

It sounds kinda Yankee, doesn't it?

It sounds kinda Yankee, doesn't it? Yeah..my wife is from Jersey.

What were the "fruit loops" on the shirts really for? Why did we call them that?
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I don't know what they were actually for other than it was an easy way to hang your shirt (should've used a hangar) and it not wrinkle so you could wear it another day. Really made me mad when someone was stupid enough to "Jerk" that loop off and then the shirt would be torn.....Man, those shirts cost $2.95 to 4.95 each......

They'll never:

see their mother or grandmother kill Sunday dinner by walking into the chickenyard with a handful of feed, etc.,

Be sent outside to turn the 'aerial' so we could get KFSA out of Fort Smith, or on a good day, KTUL from Tulsa.

Watch a program on black and white TV, see the Wizard of Oz once a year as a 'family event' (the only time Mom allowed us to skip Sunday night services).

Shuck corn, shell peas, or snap beans with the neighbors on a summer evening.

Spend a summer "connected" to nothing but a bicycle seat.

pick poke salet (or blackberries, persimmons, muscadines, etc).

Phone exchanges. JAckson, VIctor, CEntral, MElrose, MUtual. Those are the only ones I can remember.

Rick

Oh my god...had forgotten those. "LOcust 7-2825."

And party lines. We were on one until 1972. We had 'ring tones' back then but they were to let you know whether or not the incoming call was for you or someone else on the line (ours was one long, one short).

They'll never:

see their mother or grandmother kill Sunday dinner by walking into the chickenyard with a handful of feed, etc.,

Be sent outside to turn the 'aerial' so we could get KFSA out of Fort Smith, or on a good day, KTUL from Tulsa.

Watch a program on black and white TV, see the Wizard of Oz once a year as a 'family event' (the only time Mom allowed us to skip Sunday night services).

Shuck corn, shell peas, or snap beans with the neighbors on a summer evening.

Spend a summer "connected" to nothing but a bicycle seat.

pick poke salet (or blackberries, persimmons, muscadines, etc).

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Been there, did it all....Still hate Poke Salad.....With or without the Bacon Grease and Hard Boiled Eggs......Would rather go hungry...

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Been there, did it all....Still hate Poke Salad.....With or without the Bacon Grease and Hard Boiled Eggs......Would rather go hungry...

I despised greens, and still do. The fun part of picking it was getting to go with my old Ozark-born grandmother, and the whole outside world was either an open air grocery store or pharmacy. She could tell you which plants you could eat, which ones would kill you, which ones would cure you, what times of year you could eat, etc, and she could always find sassafras for us to chew on. She was a walking set of Foxfire books.

Once we got the poke salet back to the house, I was done.

Anyone know what the correct "unit of measure" for poke salet is/was?

I despised greens, and still do. The fun part of picking it was getting to go with my old Ozark-born grandmother, and the whole outside world was either an open air grocery store or pharmacy. She could tell you which plants you could eat, which ones would kill you, which ones would cure you, what times of year you could eat, etc, and she could always find sassafras for us to chew on. She was a walking set of Foxfire books.

Once we got the poke salet back to the house, I was done.

Anyone know what the correct "unit of measure" for poke salet is/was?
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My Grandmother & Mother always said they was a gittin a "Passell" of Poke Sald fer the dinner table.....I always said..."I'm ain't hungry tonight".....Just whole milk (straight from the cow) and Cornbread would do me well....Hated that milk .... love the taste of 2% milk but not that stuff with the little bits of dirt and other particles floating around in it.....YUK.....

Watch a program on black and white TV, see the Wizard of Oz once a year as
a 'family event' (the only time Mom allowed us to skip Sunday night services).

I thought the Wizard of Oz was in black and white until the late 60's.

When the TV Guide announced if something was in color. Everything else was
in B&W!

'frinstance...

5:30pm Huntley & Brinkley Report
6:00pm News
6:30pm The Virginian - in color

I despised greens, and still do. The fun part of picking it was getting to go with my old Ozark-born grandmother, and the whole outside world was either an open air grocery store or pharmacy. She could tell you which plants you could eat, which ones would kill you, which ones would cure you, what times of year you could eat, etc, and she could always find sassafras for us to chew on. She was a walking set of Foxfire books.

Once we got the poke salet back to the house, I was done.

Anyone know what the correct "unit of measure" for poke salet is/was?

I am 100% confident in this: a "mess" of poke.

I am 100% confident in this: a "mess" of poke.
Funny you say that. We just introduced our grand daughter to a mess of
collards & blackeyed peas! The produce didn't have poke. That get's planted
in a couple of weeks!

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My Grandmother & Mother always said they was a gittin a "Passell" of Poke Sald fer the dinner table.....I always said..."I'm ain't hungry tonight".....Just whole milk (straight from the cow) and Cornbread would do me well....Hated that milk .... love the taste of 2% milk but not that stuff with the little bits of dirt and other particles floating around in it.....YUK.....


Well, the unit I grew up with was a 'mess' and it applied to any sort of (vile) greens: turnip, collard, poke, spinach. Come to think of it, I never heard them refer to any other vegetable quantity as a mess. Maybe squash, which, where I was raised, was pronounced "skworsh."

As for the milk, we sometimes got 'fresh squeezed', but grandma and mom would skim the cream off for butter and called what was left "blue john."

Pretty thin.

Yeah..my wife is from Jersey.

One of my favorite Archie Bunker/Meathead arguments on "All in the Family":

Michael and Gloria were looking for a place of their own with no luck. Archie inquires as to his progress.

Michael Stivic: I can't find anything, Arch! I looked in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx! I even look in Staten Island!

Archie Bunker: Did you look in Jersey?

MS: I don't wanna live in Jersey!

AB: No one wants to live in Jersey! But somebody has to!

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Edit: the one time Archie was right and Meathead was wrong: the toilet paper goes over the TOP of the roll, not under!

Oh my god...had forgotten those. "LOcust 7-2825."

And party lines. We were on one until 1972. We had 'ring tones' back then but they were to let you know whether or not the incoming call was for you or someone else on the line (ours was one long, one short).
Hated it in '77 or '78 when the the upgrade conversions started and we phone guys and by then gals had to go about rewiring telephone sets when everybody began to be mandated private line service. Took a lot of the fun out of the job..took away a lot of the need to be somewhat technically proficient, too. Lots of pride in one's handiwork went by the wayside.
How 'bout this one.......having to wait for the long distance operator to call you back when a circuit became open to the coast when you called relatives to wish them Merry Christmas. Heck it didn't have to be to the coast. Just state to state on Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter. Soooo.......they'll never know the joy of being interrupted from playing with this year's new cap gun or baby doll or from hunting Easter eggs to talk to "the folks in........... when the operator finally called back

One of my favorite Archie Bunker/Meathead arguments on "All in the Family":

Michael and Gloria were looking for a place of their own with no luck. Archie inquires as to his progress.

Michael Stivic: I can't find anything, Arch! I looked in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx! I even look in Staten Island!

Archie Bunker: Did you look in Jersey?

MS: I don't wanna live in Jersey!

AB: No one wants to live in Jersey! But somebody has to!

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Edit: the one time Archie was right and Meathead was wrong: the toilet paper goes over the TOP of the roll, not under! I loved that show back in the day.

Oh my god...had forgotten those. "LOcust 7-2825."
Where was the LOcust prefix? Locust Grove?

I loved that show back in the day.

Me too!

I thought the Wizard of Oz was in black and white until the late 60's.

After I quit doing acid and like chemicals, the Wizard of Oz was never the same...:Smiley026

After I quit doing acid and like chemicals, the Wizard of Oz was never the
same...:Smiley026
You quit?

You quit?

Actually, I feel sometimes like I never returned from a trip......:sofa:

I thought the Wizard of Oz was in black and white until the late 60's.

The original was black and white up to the point Dorothy landed in Oz. Then it went to color. Each frame of the film was hand painted from that point forward.

The original was black and white up to the point Dorothy landed in Oz. Then it went to color. Each frame of the film was hand painted from that point forward.

actually, it was filmed in brown-tinted sepia film up to the transition point.. the transition sequence was hand-painted frame-by-frame and the remainder was filmed in 3-strip technicolor film.

The original was black and white up to the point Dorothy landed in Oz. Then it went to color. Each frame of the film was hand painted from that point forward.

You mean it was not all in color? I thought there was a point where the colors came alive when she landed in OZ?

MAN! That stuff was better than I thought....:Smiley026

anyone remember making a pizza from a Chef Boyardee mix? We lived in Harrah in the early 60's and that is all there was.

or the la choy chinese food mixes? still hate chow mein. That was dads favorite and we had it often.

I would say Jiffy Pop but some stores carry it.

anyone remember making a pizza from a Chef Boyardee mix? We lived in Harrah in the early 60's and that is all there was.

or the la choy chinese food mixes? still hate chow mein. That was dads favorite and we had it often.

I would say Jiffy Pop but some stores carry it.

Oh you bet, I remember those. I still like fennel seed on my pizza...

Oh you bet, I remember those. I still like fennel seed on my pizza...

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Easy Young Lady;..........what are you talking about?????

anyone remember making a pizza from a Chef Boyardee mix? We lived in Harrah in the early 60's and that is all there was.
Yep, my mother loved that stuff....I remember the dough rising with the towel over the bowl.

They are still available: Chef Boyardee Pizza & Dinner Kits (http://www.chefboyardee.com/tasteefood/kits.jsp)

Yep, my mother loved that stuff....I remember the dough rising with the towel over the bowl.

They are still available: Chef Boyardee Pizza & Dinner Kits (http://www.chefboyardee.com/tasteefood/kits.jsp)

Thanks. But I think I will just keep it as a memory:tiphat:

Thanks. But I think I will just keep it as a memory:tiphat:
Me too.....I just thought I had seen it at a grocery store recently.

One of my brothers made a Chef Boyardee pizza one time with pot in the dough and as one of the toppings and it destroyed everyone who ate it.

One of my brothers made a Chef Boyardee pizza one time with pot in the dough and as one of the toppings and it destroyed everyone who ate it.

He thought it was fennel seed.

You mean it was not all in color? I thought there was a point where the colors came alive when she landed in OZ?

MAN! That stuff was better than I thought....:Smiley026

Must have been... Happened to see "Up In Smoke" again last week on one of the movie channels late at night. That movie is funny as all ----. Wasn't it the flowers that the Munchkins came from? Kinda like that big lizard that Stacy Keech turned into? now that was some good stuff.

Must have been... Happened to see "Up In Smoke" again last week on one of the movie channels late at night. That movie is funny as all ----. Wasn't it the flowers that the Munchkins came from? Kinda like that big lizard that Stacy Keech turned into? now that was some good stuff. Classic cinema..I hear there will be a new Chech and Chong movie made. Can't hardly wait.

Classic cinema..I hear there will be a new Chech and Chong movie made. Can't hardly wait.

Did you happen to see the interview with Cheech a few years back where ther interviewer asked him if he and Tommy were really that high? Cheech did that grin of his and giggled "I can't remember"............. Classic Marin

Did you happen to see the interview with Cheech a few years back where ther interviewer asked him if he and Tommy were really that high? Cheech did that grin of his and giggled "I can't remember"............. Classic Marin Yes I did..

You mean it was not all in color? I thought there was a point where the colors came alive when she landed in OZ?

MAN! That stuff was better than I thought....:Smiley026

Am I the only one that noticed that when they were approaching Oz through a field of poppies they all got sleepy and nodded off? Then some white powder called "snow" fell from the sky and got them "up" again.

Am I the only one that noticed that when they were approaching Oz through a field of poppies they all got sleepy and nodded off? Then some white powder called "snow" fell from the sky and got them "up" again.

B&W in Kansas, landed in colorful Oz, yes, the snow (power? - my goodness, of course not!) fell and they woke up. And the Good Witch apparently sent the snow.

Here's a question for you on this subject....How many of your kids know how to "Shine" a pair of shoes???? or, how to tuck in their shirts????

Here's a question for you on this subject... How many of your kids know how
to "Shine" a pair of shoes? or, how to tuck in their shirts?
That's a good one!

B&W in Kansas, landed in colorful Oz, yes, the snow (power? - my goodness, of course not!) fell and they woke up. And the Good Witch apparently sent the snow.

Not power....powder! opiates from poppy's and coke powder:fighting2

Here's a question for you on this subject....How many of your kids know how to "Shine" a pair of shoes???? or, how to tuck in their shirts????

Usually I still don't tuck in my shirt. Have always been that way.

How many kids today have shoes that need to be polished?

Get with it ole' man

My kids barely know what to do with a clothes pin and have never seen a clothes line and don't understand sprinkling bottles, but before I had a sprinkling bottle top to put on a coke bottle, I sprinkled the clothes with my fingers from a bowl of water. They don't know what bluing is or boiling up the starch.

My aunt was really uptown with her wringer washing machine. I loved being there when she was doing laundry - playing in the tubs of water.

And I remember being there when my granny had a fire going under that big old black kettle, help me out, I can't think of what it is called, made of cast iron, wanting to call it a kettle, but that don't seem right.

My kids barely know what to do with a clothes pin and have never seen a clothes line and don't understand sprinkling bottles, but before I had a sprinkling bottle top to put on a coke bottle, I sprinkled the clothes with my fingers from a bowl of water. They don't know what bluing is or boiling up the starch.

My aunt was really uptown with her wringer washing machine. I loved being there when she was doing laundry - playing in the tubs of water.

And I remember being there when my granny had a fire going under that big old black kettle, help me out, I can't think of what it is called, made of cast iron, wanting to call it a kettle, but that don't seem right.
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An Iron Kettle is what we always called it....They used that kettle for numerous reasons.....Hot water to do the laundry.....Rendering the Fat from a hog to make Lye Soap.....Rendering the fat from the Hog to make Kracklins...those were good......Making up a witches brew for one of my aunts....I know she knew what she was doing......Then Water the Horses when not in use.....Those things are getting harder to find now...

It should have been against the law for kids (girls) to witness the slaughter of a hog!!!!!!!!

I think I need counceling!!

My kids barely know what to do with a clothes pin and have never seen a
clothes line and don't understand sprinkling bottles, but before I had a
sprinkling bottle top to put on a coke bottle, I sprinkled the clothes with
my fingers from a bowl of water. They don't know what bluing is or boiling
up the starch.

My aunt was really uptown with her wringer washing machine. I loved being
there when she was doing laundry - playing in the tubs of water.

And I remember being there when my granny had a fire going under that
big old black kettle, help me out, I can't think of what it is called, made of
cast iron, wanting to call it a kettle, but that don't seem right.
Those are a bunch of good memories.

The kettle is correct. We have the one that was my Granny's. 3 short legs.

My kids barely know what to do with a clothes pin and have never seen a clothes line and don't understand sprinkling bottles, but before I had a sprinkling bottle top to put on a coke bottle, I sprinkled the clothes with my fingers from a bowl of water. They don't know what bluing is or boiling up the starch.

My aunt was really uptown with her wringer washing machine. I loved being there when she was doing laundry - playing in the tubs of water.

And I remember being there when my granny had a fire going under that big old black kettle, help me out, I can't think of what it is called, made of cast iron, wanting to call it a kettle, but that don't seem right.

When we got a washing machine it was a white maytag ringer washer. We pulled it outside to do the laundry once a week. The same water washed several loads of laundry. Wash, run through the ringer so that the water goes back into the washer and the clothes go into the next tub to rinse. Then to the next tub and the next tub. Then dump the tubs out in the flower beds or into the vegetable garden. Then pump out the "gray" water from the washing machine onto the grass. At my house, growing up, that's all the watering the grass got, especially since I had to do the mowing.

I had the job of cleaing the bird crap off the clotheslines, then help hang out the laundry. There is a right way and a hundred wrong ways to hang out the laundry, but when you brought it in, there is nothing that smells better than air-dried laundry. In the winter our clothes would freeze dry. Remember blue jeans stretchers?

When we got a washing machine it was a white maytag ringer washer. We pulled it outside to do the laundry once a week. The same water washed several loads of laundry. Wash, run through the ringer so that the water goes back into the washer and the clothes go into the next tub to rinse. Then to the next tub and the next tub. Then dump the tubs out in the flower beds or into the vegetable garden. Then pump out the "gray" water from the washing machine onto the grass. At my house, growing up, that's all the watering the grass got, especially since I had to do the mowing.

I had the job of cleaing the bird crap off the clotheslines, then help hang out the laundry. There is a right way and a hundred wrong ways to hang out the laundry, but when you brought it in, there is nothing that smells better than air-dried laundry. In the winter our clothes would freeze dry. Remember blue jeans stretchers?

And you had to wash the lights first then the darks, because the soapy water was used over and over and those round house bib overalls were the last (dirtiest) load.

I remember when my granny finally got electricity and got a Philco refrigerator with 2 ice trays and a AM radio.


AND THOSE OUTHOUSES & SEARS MAGAZINES & LIME???

When I was a kid we had one of those big cast iron kettles and my dad attached some flanges on the bottom to attach legs to it which brought it up to about waist high. Turned it into the best bar-b-que grill ever.

When we got a washing machine it was a white maytag ringer washer. We pulled it outside to do the laundry once a week. The same water washed several loads of laundry. Wash, run through the ringer so that the water goes back into the washer and the clothes go into the next tub to rinse. Then to the next tub and the next tub. Then dump the tubs out in the flower beds or into the vegetable garden. Then pump out the "gray" water from the washing machine onto the grass. At my house, growing up, that's all the watering the grass got, especially since I had to do the mowing.

I had the job of cleaing the bird crap off the clotheslines, then help hang out the laundry. There is a right way and a hundred wrong ways to hang out the laundry, but when you brought it in, there is nothing that smells better than air-dried laundry. In the winter our clothes would freeze dry. Remember blue jeans stretchers?

You can find stretchers for sale on ebay.

How about messing with the clothes line poles and learning the hard way that wasps had built a nest inside>>>>>

You can find stretchers for sale on ebay.

How about messing with the clothes line poles and learning the hard way that wasps had built a nest inside>>>>> Know all about the wasps in the clothesline poles.

Know all about the wasps in the clothesline poles.

Every time I think about clothesline poles, wasps are the first thing that come to mind.

Every time I think about clothesline poles, wasps are the first thing that come to mind. I remember get'n stung about 8 times at once and my mother putting a poltus of flour and what ever that took the sing out. My dad burned the wasp out of the pole.

How about running around the yard at night and the wire catches you right in the throat? I only had it happen once but know many that did the same thing!!

I remember when my granny finally got electricity and got a Philco refrigerator with 2 ice trays and a AM radio.


AND THOSE OUTHOUSES & SEARS MAGAZINES & LIME???

Quick lime wasn't it? There may be some grandkids looking over somebody's shoulder and be thinking of the green fruit.

I remember get'n stung about 8 times at once and my mother putting a poltus of flour and what ever that took the sing out. My dad burned the wasp out of the pole.

Might have been ammonia. Water and baking soda worked real well too. Both of them still do as a matter of fact. Old phone man trick,you see. Baking soda's easier to carry in a bin of the phone truck. Smells better , too

How about running around the yard at night and the wire catches you right in the throat? I only had it happen once but know many that did the same thing!!

Wasn't usually in my own back yard though. Usually in some unfamiliar neighborhood, running away form whoever just turned the porch light on at 1:30 or so in the morning
Damn, shoulda multi quoted. I'll figure out these new fangled gadgets one of these days.

I remember when my granny finally got electricity and got a Philco refrigerator
with 2 ice trays and a AM radio.

AND THOSE OUTHOUSES & SEARS MAGAZINES & LIME?
My Granny never had indoor plumbing. The outhouse was moved every few
months. I don't know that lime was for but the Sears Catalog and anything
else that had paper was obvious! But my Dad would make sure we had TP.
Oh! Remember the slop jar?

A Philco refrigerator? Did the fridge have an AM radio? We have a Philco
AM/FM! If only we could OKC Talk on it. Granny never had such a thing!
She could cook on a Royal wood stove!

Every time I think about clothesline poles, wasps are the first thing that come
to mind.
In North Carolina it was Yellow Jackets! It'd take an hour to climb a side of a
mountain, discover a Yellow Jacket nest and 30 seconds to descent the
mountain! Can't tell you how many onions were cut and placed on the stings.