I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 11:59am

what i mean, barry, was that i remember when the country called pasta spaghetti. my house called it pasta, because we had a big italian part of the family. so we knew the differences. but most americans did not. so that's what i'm remembering. ......robert, you didn't!!! GASP!!!!

Comment by Barry Parsons on July 13, 2011 at 11:57am

"i'm old enough to remember when pasta was called spaghetti"

 

Are you talking about all pasta?  I can't say I remember that.  Spaghetti was spaghetti, macaroni was macaroni, rigatoni was rigatoni.  Maybe that was just my family though.

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 11:53am

I'm old enough to remember my brother and I hiding within a wooden tressel bridge over the railroad tracks when a coal operated steam engine "Choo-choo!" to us, came under us covering us with soot. I thought mom was going to kill us but instead she laughed so hard she was crying.

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 12, 2011 at 11:21pm

I have one in the medicine cabinet still...loved to play with the mercury when the blood pressure cuffs broke back in student days..yes we knew better so most of the time we used a test tube to catch it in....just took it out to play with it for a few now and then...

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 12, 2011 at 10:59pm

we probably poisoned ourselves with all that mercury :-)

 

Comment by wiffledust on July 12, 2011 at 10:51pm

i still like the glass ones and want to know where you can find them!!! i just broke my last one and had mercury all over the place! maryanne, pixie stix are worth getting yelled at by nuns! :-)

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 12, 2011 at 10:49pm

I remember breaking thermometers for the mercury and smearing it on coins and also have mercury ball races ... trying to see who could get their mercury balls to become one big ball first. And Pixie Stix remind me of the nuns .. I would always stop and buy an orange Pixie Stix on the way to catechism and trying to eat it during class :-( getting caught and surrendering my treat! but I would do it again and again and again!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 12, 2011 at 8:12pm

How about breaking thermometers and putting mercury on dimes....or jusr breaking the mercury in little balls. Were we nuts?

 

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 12, 2011 at 7:56pm

pixi stix came after the lickamade in little packs I think they were so messy...............and yep pure flavored sugar...you could make sort of cool ade out of them but of course we never did.....

Comment by wiffledust on July 12, 2011 at 7:29pm

i'm old enough to remember when pasta was called spaghetti

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