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What items do you recall that were once....but are no more?

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I just read an article about how Hershey's is cheapening all of it's products -
not using real chocolate,etc.A guy named Reese (son of the inventor of the
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup) said that the new ones don't taste like the older version.
We live in some sad times.
 
Another sad thing - younger folks think this is all the way it's always been. Only us older folks will remember the way it used to be.

Of course, my parents, born before WW1, thought things were going downhill in the 1930s, with the Depression, and the '40s, with WW2.

On a related tack - has anyone bought a pound of coffee in the last ten years? Unless you go "high end", coffee no longer comes in one pound bags or cans. And the big coffee grinders we used to see in just about every grocery store, have disappeared.

It's the end of the world as we know it!
TM
PS - and I feel fine ...
 
I have to admit, I never developed a taste for coffee, I think I was the only tech services computer guy in the room who didn't knock back several cups a day back when we were all in an office. They had 3 coffee makers and would go through 6-8 pots from each every day.

I hadn't noticed missing grinders since I wasn't buying coffee, but I'll not that the size of things like a gallon of ice cream aren't that big anymore, or the supposed half pound of sliced cheese packages.
 
NutmegCT said:
Another sad thing - younger folks think this is all the way it's always been. Only us older folks will remember the way it used to be.

Of course, my parents, born before WW1, thought things were going downhill in the 1930s, with the Depression, and the '40s, with WW2.

On a related tack - has anyone bought a pound of coffee in the last ten years? Unless you go "high end", coffee no longer comes in one pound bags or cans. And the big coffee grinders we used to see in just about every grocery store, have disappeared.

It's the end of the world as we know it!
TM
PS - and I feel fine ...
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Just last night my wife and I went to the supermarket. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a bag of potato chips. I held it up and asked my wife how much she thinks it cost? It was 5oz and cost $10.99…. Yes, eleven dollars for potato chips!
Ok, it was a “vanity” brand but still!!!
 
and jeez -caviar is so expensive now. I've had to economize and only buy a pound of Osetra instead of my traditional weekly purchase of Beluga. Man, life is tough. May have to sell one of my vacation homes.

:jester:
 
NutmegCT said:
and jeez -caviar is so expensive now. I've had to economize and only buy a pound of Osetra instead of my traditional weekly purchase of Beluga. Man, life is tough. May have to sell one of my vacation homes.

:jester:
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checking out your J.C. Whitney catalog...

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BobHaskell said:
I like the text for the XKE grill guards. Not $29.95 - Not $19.95 - But Only $14.98.

Any currently manufactured car use carburetors?
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hmmm - you could probably buy a 1970 *ad* for carbs - for around $50.00.
 
NutmegCT said:
Walt - ever hear of Rocky Mountain oysters?
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When I was a little feller, we lived in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, near the old Baca Grande ranch, which was a Spanish grant ranch that sat on about 300 sections. They ran a respectable herd and when it came time to cut calves and brand, the entire community went to work on the ranch for awhile. There was an old Mexican man who would bring his skillet with him and his lunch from the freshly 'shucked' 'oysters' each day were out there.

An interesting aside, because people don't associate CO with a large hispanic population, but in kindergarten we had to start learning Spanish because so much of the valley's population were Mexican that it was widely spoken, and many of those families had been in the valley since the 1700s.
 
Thanks Walt. When I was a kid in Texas, we learned Spanish beginning in fourth grade. Many Texans were of Mexican heritage. In the 1970s, I was a teacher in Edinburg TX (on the border with Tamaulipas). Some of my kids formed a mariachi called "Las Rancheritas", and sang "Las Mañanitas" for my birthday.
 
waltesefalcon said:
When I was a little feller, we lived in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, near the old Baca Grande ranch, which was a Spanish grant ranch that sat on about 300 sections. They ran a respectable herd and when it came time to cut calves and brand, the entire community went to work on the ranch for awhile. There was an old Mexican man who would bring his skillet with him and his lunch from the freshly 'shucked' 'oysters' each day were out there.

An interesting aside, because people don't associate CO with a large hispanic population, but in kindergarten we had to start learning Spanish because so much of the valley's population were Mexican that it was widely spoken, and many of those families had been in the valley since the 1700s.
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It's the air in the bag that makes chips so expensive! :encouragement:
 
Mike - we often called those "draftless ventilators", or "poor man's a/c".
 
PAUL161 said:
It's the air in the bag that makes chips so expensive! :encouragement:
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You may be closer to the truth than you think …….
crisp (chips) bags are filled with nitrogen gas,
not just air, to keep them fresh and prevent breaking. This process, called modified atmosphere packaging or MAP it replaces oxygen or air —which makes food go stale—with nitrogen, an inert gas that keeps crisps crunchy and fresher longer
 
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