I Remember When...

[Digging4Truth]

I am starting this thread for us to list all of the things we remember from way back when.

Nothing that berates anyone else.... regular stuff...

I'll start out with a few...

I remember when...

Soft drinks were opened with a pull tab that you threw away because it detached from the can.

You could walk into store and fill out the counter checks from the local bank and they would accept that because people trusted each other.

Kids would sometimes wander miles from home during a days play and their parents didn't have to worry if they did.

[Ferd]

I remember when kids played outside all day every day during the summer.

I remember when pork fat wasnt considered toxic waste.

[berkeley]

We'd take glass Coke bottles to the convenient store for credit toward the purchase of another 6 pack of Coke...

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Ferd

I remember when kids played outside all day every day during the summer.

I remember when pork fat wasnt considered toxic waste.

LOL... good ones.

Yes sir... everybody used to keep a "bacon grease jar" on the stove where you kept the prized commodity of bacon grease to flavor everything from mustard greens to cornbread.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

We'd take glass Coke bottles to the convenient store for credit toward the purchase of another 6 pack of Coke...

Ahhhh... every summer was funded by gathering up every glass coke bottle we could and take it up to the grocery store.

After that we were "loaded" for quite a while.

Sometimes even buy a coke and drink it there so you could go ahead and get your nickel back.

[Margies3]

When we butchered hogs in the fall, my mom would render the fat out to make lard. She'd fill 5 gallon Cain's Potato Chip cans with it and store it out in the utility room. We'd use that all winter long anytime we needed grease for anything. It made the BEST popcorn you have ever tasted!

oh and the cracklin's that came up when she was rendering. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[berkeley]

I'm only 26, I don't have any more "old" memories.

[Scott Hutchinson]

I remember listening to vinyl record albums.
I remember Sony Walkman Cassette players.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

I'm only 26, I don't have any more "old" memories.

LOL...

Well how about this.... I remember when I was 26. I married my lovely bride when I was 26.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

LOL... good ones.

Yes sir... everybody used to keep a "bacon grease jar" on the stove where you kept the prized commodity of bacon grease to flavor everything from mustard greens to cornbread.

my maw maw lived past 80 and put bacon grease in every thing.


there has never been a better tasting green bean than what she cooked!