Remember These???

[unreal]

Remember this????

I wonder why they never triple or quadrupled the mint, in later years. My theory was that they were already flirting with a mint density that approached the mint event horizon. The danger of crossing that threshold is that the entire universe disappears in a puff of fresh breath. O.O

Minty fresh breath probably gets a soul kicked from hell. And heaven has better standards, so it would make for a very nice smelling purgatory. If you're a reincarnation person and not done so well this go round, maybe a fresh smelling worm. If atheist, then your fresh breath doesn't matter. Maybe juicy-fruit is the gum for *you*.

I suppose a person might go to heaven. Which could be fun or not, I suppose. Depending on your brand.

 

[unreal]

Remember this????

Remember when they were service stations? A bunch of well dressed guys hoped out and "indy 500 pit stopped" your car. fluids checked and topped, tires checked and pressurized, all windows cleaned. The soda machine had fancy 8oz glass bottles of real sugar coca cola (with an on the spot 5 cent deposit). And the bathroom was clean and worked.

 

[unreal]

Remember when Coke and Pepsi were in 10oz. bottles and cost 10 or 12 cents? For the record, I do know that a few years before it was only a nickle.
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i liked 8oz better. 10oz was quite the commitment to the brown fizzy sugar-acid (and it was real sugar).

We still have them here (AU). Real sugar. 250ml glass bottles. Ice friggin' cold. I swear, it tastes better. But it's 7.50 for a 6 pack.

 

[eclark1894]

i liked 8oz better. 10oz was quite the commitment to the brown fizzy sugar-acid (and it was real sugar).

We still have them here (AU). Real sugar. 250ml glass bottles. Ice friggin' cold. I swear, it tastes better. But it's 7.50 for a 6 pack.

I've seen them here in the states. Usually bottled in Mexico and sitting on a Mexican food aisle in the Supermarket.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember when they were service stations? A bunch of well dressed guys hoped out and "indy 500 pit stopped" your car. fluids checked and topped, tires checked and pressurized, all windows cleaned. The soda machine had fancy 8oz glass bottles of real sugar coca cola (with an on the spot 5 cent deposit). And the bathroom was clean and worked.

I remember, but never actually experienced it. By the time I had started driving, everything was self service.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember this????

 

[eclark1894]

Remember when you were a kid and could fit under your bed???? I can't even get on my knees now without fear of not
being able to get back up.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember blanket forts????

 

[eclark1894]

Remember when you used to see these in commercials and magazines?????

 

[eclark1894]

Remember Life Magazine??????

 

[eclark1894]

Remember this?????

 

[Miss B]

Yes we had Dairy Queen here, but I never saw lines like that to get in.

 

[unreal]

I remember, but never actually experienced it. By the time I had started driving, everything was self service.

I learned to drive in a US State that even today has what they call "full service". It means you can't pump your own; some kid has to do it for you. Which, when you're headed out to eat is preferable. I think this is a "make job" regulation posing as a safety thing.

It's been long since I lived there. But I remember going off to uni and NOT knowing how to pump my own gasoline. I felt pretty stupid having to ask how.

I'm looking forward to having an electric car and leaving internal combustion engines in the same past as illnesses caused by evil spirits and a flat earth.

Hey, remember when the earth was flat?

 

[unreal]

Remember blanket forts????
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Yes. I remember last night.

 

[unreal]

Remember when you were a kid and could fit under your bed???? I can't even get on my knees now without fear of not
being able to get back up.
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No lie. It's possible that someone could slide my prone body under the bed. But not likely I could get up without help.

 

[unreal]

I've seen them here in the states. Usually bottled in Mexico and sitting on a Mexican food aisle in the Supermarket.

Yes. I think the Mexican bottles are 10oz, like you said.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember this????I had a lot of favorite tv shows while growing up. Daniel Boone was probably the first. I lived near a lot of woods and water too, so between Daniel Boone and Tarzan I spent the first ten years of my life in the woods.

 

[McGyver]

Remember this?????
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I used to hate Dairy Queen for cruelly tormenting small children… they would have commercials for it in NYC, but there were no Dairy Queens anywhere in the area… “Try this tasty ice cream treat!… HA-HA sucker! There ain’t none where you live! Haaahaaahaaahaaa!”
I don’t even think I’d have believed they were real if I didn’t go to one in Connecticut once.
In NYC and Long Island we had/have a chain called Carvel… it’s is mostly soft serve and ice cream cake based… when I was a kid they used to have TV commercials featuring the owner of the company touting their novelty ice cream cakes “Cookie Puss“ (which a local store once misspelled as “Cookie Pus”) and “Fudgie The Whale”… Tom Carvel was like 915 years old at the time and was more scary a spokesman than if they’d have chosen an actual brain eating zombie… to make matters worse, for two years after he died they kept airing the commercials with him.

 

[eclark1894]

I used to hate Dairy Queen for cruelly tormenting small children… they would have commercials for it in NYC, but there were no Dairy Queens anywhere in the area… “Try this tasty ice cream treat!… HA-HA sucker! There ain’t none where you live! Haaahaaahaaahaaa!”
I don’t even think I’d have believed they were real if I didn’t go to one in Connecticut once.
In NYC and Long Island we had/have a chain called Carvel… it’s is mostly soft serve and ice cream cake based… when I was a kid they used to have TV commercials featuring the owner of the company touting their novelty ice cream cakes “Cookie Puss“ (which a local store once misspelled as “Cookie Pus”) and “Fudgie The Whale”… Tom Carvel was like 915 years old at the time and was more scary a spokesman than if they’d have chosen an actual brain eating zombie… to make matters worse, for two years after he died they kept airing the commercials with him.

OOOhh, I remember "Fudgie the Whale"!

 

[eclark1894]

As long as we're doing commercial characters... Remember him?????