It's My Party and I'll Complain If I Want To Complaint Thread
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...add to that Red Hot Dollars (2 for a penny), Smarties (1¢ a roll), and Candy Raisins (a local item made where I lived - 4 for a penny). Those 'Flying Saucers" were called Licorice Records where I lived (using a concentric wrap of black licorice with the hard candy bead in the middle). We also had Kits taffy (a pack of four small taffy squares). A box of Licorice Snaps (another local candy) was 2¢ as was a long strip of candy buttons (rows of hard candy beads of different colours on a strip of paper).
Not only Hershey, and Nestle Crunch, but Clark Bar, Pay Day, Mounds, Almond Joy, Bit o Honey Baby Ruth, and other candy bars only cost a nickel. We also had a large block chockie bar called Chunky (regular or with raisins), as well as a flat tan and white caramel bar called Snirkles (locally made).
Other nickel candy included Jujyfruits, Boston Baked Beans, JuJubes, Rasinets, M&Ms (the small packs you pay 50¢ today for), Atomic Fireballs, Life Savers, etc, as well as one I liked, Violet mints.
Oh and LIk M' AId came in a flat pack like a Kool Aid pouch. It was Pixie Stix that were the straws (though the same company made both back then - see pics below).
Bottled pop bought at a store was 12¢ for a 12 oz. and 15¢ for a 16 oz. (2¢ of he price was a bottle deposit, yeah, we had a "bottle bill" in Milwaukee long ago though it only applied to glass pop and beer bottles).
If you had a quarter or two in your pocket, you were in "sugar heaven".
Pics:
(Lik M Aid, Pixie Stix)
(Snirkles, Candy Basins, Violet mints)
Play that dog video...
..OK big plaint (and why I am so late getting onto the forums).
Turned the monitors on as usual after I got up (slept in a little today), opened FF, and went off to make brekkie.
When I sat down at the desk placing my morning tea and big bagel slathered in cream cheese on the desk, to begin slogging thought the morning's emails, there was a Timeout message on the screen where my Gmail inbox should have been. Checked the connection, everything was fine. Refreshed and it popped up again. Checked the physical connections everything was plugged in properly refreshed again and once more, "Timeout". Shut FF down but the image remained in memory (I always keep Task Manager open) and was not closing out (there were actually two instances of FF running for some reason). Tried to force a shutdown of both and got the message that I didn't have "permission" to do so. What? Wait this is my system, I am the "administrator", and I cannot close a programme out?
So, I did a reset figuring that some system command or process had hung up somewhere and was interfering with the connection. After everything was restarted, same situation. Did a full shutdown and restart still persisted. Checked all my Net connections again and everything was good. Checked system information and everything was working as it should be. Tried a couple other sites (like ESPN and the Forums) only to get the same results as with Gmail. Now was a little perturbed and wondered if something had blown up with either Google or FF but to be sure I decided to check with my service provider to see if they were not experiencing some kind of internal difficulty that wasn't showing up on my end. Well, with no phone service the only way to contact them was via the net, so gritting my teeth, I begrudgingly fired up that screen door equipped submarine called IE to see if that might work. It did, which only made me suspect Google or FF even more. I had to use chat as I had no access to my Gmail account (password is saved in FF and I don't remember it) or phone for them to call me back, to discover nothing was amiss on their end. That pretty much cinched who the likely suspects were. After that I fired up a fresh version FF (without the extra tabs I usually have up), and following a longer than usual start, Gmail finally came back up.
Not sure what the deal was, but more than two and a half hours of my day were now gone and I had 145 emails to deal with by then. Finally got through all of them all at around 16:45 local time (I hoped to use the afternoon to find and get into a more affordable phone plan, oh well).
I refuse to source my rice products from India or Pakistan due to the number of deaths in those countries from starvation. They really need to be eating their own rice not selling it to rich Americans afraid of arsenic. I live in the Southern US. We don't grow rice, but our neighbors do. We have also grown cotton. This food scare, (and there is no research into the effects yet), I shall ignore. All I do know is we have already eaten it like this for many years before anyone decided to be alarmed. I think, if it is damaging, everyone is damaged already. You know, good and damaged. The chemical used to bleach flour has one medical use. To induce diabetes in lab animals so we can treat diabetes. Bleached flour is all that is offered in stores poor people shop at most like General Dollar, Family Dollar, convience stores. The poor have poor access to unbleached flour even. I eat more low carb than most low income diabetics and I have for years. I see diabetic cookbooks with Potatoes all over the cover. I was grain free at the time and quiet grumpy about some information handed out to diabetics about what to eat and how to eat. Diabetics in the lower income bracket still eat lots of bleached flour because its cheap, and their are programs that pay for their shots, but not a ribeye. I can't take what another country needs for their own people as far as the rice goes. I can rinse the walmartpar-broiled rice I have, and that I can do. We don't eat it often. I don't even bake often and the mix has potato and sorgrum as well, so I think that is the best I can do on that. Wheat crops up weird places. I've eaten Thanksgiving turkeys shot up wit wheat. I wanted that Butterball too! But many cheap ones are not shot up with the wheat baste. I have to switch my soy sauce as well.
It’s snowing....
Where?
On a brighter note Pamela's Products All-purpose Artisian Flour mix is so close to real flour, my family will eat it with me! That is good because I am not cooking food I can't eat for others. My kids are allowed to eat things I can't from the store. I just refuse to cook it. Mostly I stay well away from their junk food. They don't get much of it anyway. My oldest daughter was 6 when I switched to cooking whole foods for the most part. We tried coupon shopping for a couple of months about four years ago. It was horrible with bad food products that were premade. We gave that idea up years ago. If they will just wait for me to bake a cake to eat junk food, all will be fine. I look at everyone's waistline and decide if it is time for treats or not. But store bought bread, and crackers, and my monster drinks and their sodas have creeped in while I was busy not dieting. We hardly ever ate out anyway. My husband took the family to Ryan's buffet several years ago, and the family was upset because my food is much better. I was so sad. Sometimes I'll eat anything without complaint if it means I don't have to cook. But I end up cooking lots and lots. I like cooking. We have to spend lots of money to get a meal out we feel good about. So we mostly don't go out. When that flour arrived, I went to the store and got butter and chocolate chips and made Toll House Cookies. My husband said I should add a little more vanilla next time, otherwise they were great. I can't believe I cried about being allergic to wheat. Dominos even makes a Gluten free pizza, and I can eat salads lots of places. I can have a low-carb whopper meal even. Its not the same but its better than nothing. I only bake a little, but I really love it. I can still do that.
Calgary, Alberta.. not unusual for September.. last time we had snow was last May..
and we had to turn the heat on...
...brrr. I'll stick to the rain we have here.
Snow in September is not unusual here.. I have seen it snow in August..
...as much as I love Canada, don't think I could live there. I have parted ways with snow and Ice a long long time ago. I cannot afford to slip and fall at my age as most likely it would mean breaking something.
Not least of which would be your bank account.
First of all, if gluten itself is the problem, then you also need to give up rye and barley. A small percentage even need to give up oats
There are GF brands of pasta available. Some to look for are Tinkyada (there's over half a dozen kinds in the line), a GF line by American Beauty (there's three that I know of), a GF line by Barilla (5 or 6 in that line), Debolles (I think I got the spelling right). Most are expensive specialty lines but the AB and Barrila are national brands and closer to regular lines in price.
There's also a lot of bread mixes and such. Bob's Red Mill has quite a bit of GF bakinf items. A couple of other lines are Glutino and Pamelas. That's what I can think of off the top of my head before heading to work this morning.
I tried Pamela's All purpose flour mix and it is great! I am going to get the bread mix by Pamela's and make my own pasta. I have an old pasta machine that never saw much use. I am cleaning it and getting it ready to use today. I hope it still turns on. But if it doesn't I'll roll it out and get a cutter with 8 blades to speed things up. I can live with thicker cut pasta. I have been on GFCF, Atkins, extra lowcarb Atkins, modified fat fasts, etc. because of autism and weight. We eat a lot of whole foods and from scratch cooking. I got my teeth done about three years ago and it was hard to eat meat for one year and I started eating bad foods again. I curbed that kind of eating when I got meat and salads back but I still didn't want to diet for weightloss and I still wanted those crackers with my cheese and things. This is going to be a good thing for our family. When I am cooking real foods more, everyone is happier and I believe healthier.
I just figured out what this is all about. I'm too lazy to read much right now. Everytime I see the title of this thread, I can envision Lesley Gore singing: "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to!" I don't know how many of you are old enough that you might have played her records as a teenager.
Congrats on the spirit, and logevity of this thread! I may pop in again later. But I want to be careful not to spoil the mood.
I heard that song recently AKA when I was at the outdoor pool at the YMCA. Today is not a good day to go to the pool here. Mainly because the outdoor pool is closed for the season and another thing I think the YMCA is closed for the day due to some weather issues.
Well, my husband and I are going to have to have a talk. I ordered my bread flour and a vittals vault early. This really is a household item and not the kind of thing my allowance is for. I understand sticking me for dumpling makers and pasta thingies and all that stuff. But the soy sauce and my flour is not going to fall on my allowance. I have stuck the household with some other charges lately which I really should pay the household back for so this is why I am getting billed for the food stuffs. But some of those things are going to xmas gifts, so really not much extra has hit the household. He is a little upset about the extras I bought to go with the icecream maker I got him. I got good storage containers and the most expensive ice cream scoop I have ever seen. Its called the Midnight Scoop and it was $35. Its a great guy gift. We mess up and forget father's day every year. He needed it, though he doesn't know it and is stubbornly trying to use spoons to prove he can. We are having a talk and the house is buying the food I need to be eating. I still may need some things like dumpling makers because I usually have not been making pasta. I'll buy that stuff, no problem. But flour and soy sauce, no, just no.
Apparently no one told me that I am not allowed a single package ever. I brought in a package today and the staff of the home made a big deal out of it.
We are out in this horrible weather to order Chinese food. It is the fact we are out for something trivial and not life threatening.
Miss Bad Wolf, what kind of place is that? Sounds like they think its a group home for drug rehab people only. The only reason they think anything of a person getting a package is because they think friends are sending them drugs and stuff. That is not normal. That does not sound like a place that just has seniors staying there. People get packages and rent to own in government housing. I'd think in assisted living a person could order a blanket without having their package searched or refused. I hope you find a way to get out of there soon.
MissBadWolf, I'd say hop on bus to here but our local resources are probably even worse. We are very rural and the only way the poor make it through it is with the help of their families. Our housing situation for assisted apartments is over-loaded and backlisted into next week. We have hardly any appartments. Jobs are few and far between. I know families who had leave years ago we are so lacking in programs and resources. One family moved to Michigan so they wouldn't die of diabetes, couldn't get meds and shots or afford more to eat than a sack of bleached white flour. I am sorry to say, this place would likely be worse. The halfway house here is not all that safe. People get beaten and robbed in it. I am not sure how so many people afford to stay during hard times.
I feel less bloated and swollen. I ate not one thing with wheat today. The scales say I weigh the same but I see some wrinkles on my toes and my hands don't feel like stuffed sausages. Actually I was getting use to feeling like one big over-stuffed sausage. But my face doesn't feel as puffy under the neck is a little loose. The fat under my arms jiggles. I have not had enough skin to feel anything jiggle for awhile. Yesterday the skin was so tight on my lower legs it seemed like it could just split. I dream of doing this and the swelling going down and 20 pounds suddenly being flushed down the toilet. I don't understand the difference in the swelling that is not traveling to the scales at all. But I could actually go bead today, my hands feel so good. I might have to move furniture tomorrow. My hands being good matters. One day my hands were swollen and I lost my grip on a sofa. So embarrasing.
..I still remember it.
...where I live, low income apartments often have wait lists measured in years. Section 8 applications were closed two years ago. I was fortunate enough to get into my place after about five months (being on SS Disability did help). All the new places being built are expensive upscale units.
I remember some of those things, but some were before my time. And I only ever lived in Massachusetts, so those out of state things never were in my "view". Hood milk delivered to my mom, yes. They put it in these boxes, looked like galvanized sheet metal on the outside and inside, but they were very heavy. Dogs running loose, yes. I had a friend who had a BB gun...unsupervised. I watched them building Rte. 195, including the Braga Bridge that spans Fall River and Somerset and goes to Providence, RI at one end and Cape Cod on the other end. Rt. 6 is still the only way to get all the way to Provincetown, as far as I know. My '66 and '69 Chrysler Newports had the high beam switch on the floor. And Brylcream. Most of my friends didn't use it. That was more a '50s kind of "cool" thing. The Beatles were our big thing. Although, I had a friend who still liked Elvis. Maybe he used Brylcream. The bowling alley I went to when I was young was reset by someone back there, not automated. My mom's Magnavox console stereo had reall wood, and the record player had 78 as one of the selectable speeds. I only had 45s at the time, later 33.3 LPs. And different diners and restaurants had those juke box things on the wall in the boohts. I don't remember 4 digit phone numbers, they were 5 then 7 when I was young. But they still had party lines. Despite their name, they were not fun. My grandma was on a party line. If one of the other parties was on the line, we couldn't call her. Oh, yeah, the dots on the paper candy! They stole that idea for LSD for a while.
Glass bottles for soda. There was a place we would get soda from delivered in a rack, quart bottles maybe (not sure), glass...all different flavors. It was bottled locally...White Eagle brand. They'd pick it up and leave another when you were ready. The racks or crates were wooden. We only had a B&W TV, and mom didn't buy it, it was a gift from grandma...after the gift from her aunt died. I never had a color TV until I was married, and that one was used when I bought it. Those dial telephones were deadly weapons! 
There was a candy bar that is extinct. Walleeco. It was coconut with dark chocolate, but the coconut was more chewy than Mounds. I liked it a lot. I guess they're very long gone. Necco is on the way out, too. they were right here in Massachusetts. Some company bought them a couple months ago. But it's unlikely they'll keep it going.
Dana
...what really bothers me about special dietary needs is the fact such foods are often more expensive and for many (like myself), just not affordable.
There was a time when produce was not "bioengineered" or covered in chemical pesticides and herbicides, livestock grazed in pastures and chickens spent time outside instead of being crammed together in large windowless factory warehouses from birth to death where they are fed formulated feeds as well as injected with growth hormones and antibiotics. Yes it may have lowered prices a bit, but at what expense to our health?
I do my best to purchase naturally grown, raised, and produced foods but it is taxing on the budget (I usually run my ever declining monthly SNAP allotment out in around three weeks). I just can't think of eating what I consider "rubbish foods" anymore. I did so for many years in the past and paid the price for it. Crikey my mainstay in college was Mac and Orange Powder in a box (the "Top Ramen" of our day). For 1.50$ I could get eight boxes, a stick of butter, and quart of milk which would last a week (when I was "flush" with cash, I'd get a couple tins of tuna). Since moving more to natural/organic foods, I find I feel much better, have far fewer digestive issues, and am able to better maintain my blood glucose level while still enjoying foods I like. So much of the cheap over processed food on store shelves have high amounts of sugar (primarily HFCS which has been to make the body crave even more compared to cane sugar), sodium, along with other disagreeable (often artificial) ingredients, as well as being very high in carbs.
I also avoid fast food places (apologies LG, but the thought of going to McDonalds is just not appealing to me anymore), and rarely go out to eat at all (just too bloody expensive these days, particularly to get something good, as well as in light of the fact I'm actually a pretty good cook [just can't do it for 100s of people everyday]).
...double post due to Cloudlflare glitch.
No, we had those licorice "records" too...these were called UFOs or Satellites. They were two convex wafers with flatt edges, stuck together, with little candy beads inside. They looked like UFOs. And the outside tasted like the "Host", and seemed almost like styrofoam. They have them at that Zeb's General Store. You're right about the Lik-m-aid and Pixie sticks...same thing in both, really. Mom's just loved them.
I loved the Boston Baked Beans. And yes, many of those other bars you mentioned we had...all for $.05 each. You can still get Zagnut here and there...mostly there. Zeb's has them. I bought one to take home with me...eating it a little at a time. 
Chunky was good too...I liked the one with raisins in it. The candy neclaces and bracelets. Recently I've seen another variety advertised somewhere...candy bras and panties. 
Same stuff on elestic strings. Good for some adult games, I suppose. 
The Atomic Fireballs were great! Several years ago I found a whole bin of them at BJ's and bought them. I never finished the whole thing. Forgot about them and they got buried...threw them away when I found them when looking through some things. Same for the glass soda bottles...$.02 for the 10 and 12 oz bottles, $.05 for the quart bottles (I think they were quarts).
Dana
Is Florence bearing down on you there?
Dana
I'm in Lucama NC ,which is a bit south/east of Raliegh ,finally the winds are dying down here a bit been blowing good since yesterday ,headr from my brother who is closer to Raliegh that the winds are picking up for them and it's still raining ,there are also alot of power outages