DeggestyIs where you took me for dinner? I remember as a good place to eat.
I believe so.
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tree68 Semper Vaporo It was always fun to take someone to a White Castle that knew nothing about them. Kinda like a diner I frequent when I'm staying over for the railroad. If someone orders a stack of pancakes, the usual reply is "are you suuuuuuure?" Regulars know better and will usually "correct" a newby. Each one is the size of a dinner plate. I've seen more that one person leave just one unfinished...
Semper Vaporo It was always fun to take someone to a White Castle that knew nothing about them.
Kinda like a diner I frequent when I'm staying over for the railroad. If someone orders a stack of pancakes, the usual reply is "are you suuuuuuure?" Regulars know better and will usually "correct" a newby.
Each one is the size of a dinner plate. I've seen more that one person leave just one unfinished...
Johnny
Semper VaporoIt was always fun to take someone to a White Castle that knew nothing about them.
I'll admit that like olives, they are an aquired taste.
It was always fun to take someone to a White Castle that knew nothing about them. Let them order first and they might order just 1 or 2, thinking they were the usual size of fastfood burgers. It would take a wink and a finger over my mouth (shhhh!) at the clerk to keep them from pointing out the size of the burgers. Then I'd order 12 (plenty for me and some more for my friend!) and get some strange looks from my friend. (Back then I could eat 2 big-macs for a meal, so 8 or 10 White Castles were about the same).
'TWELVE! You can't eat that many!"
Now-a-days, there are no White Castles near me, but the grocery store carries them in boxes of 6 (3 twin packs) and I have 1 or 2 packs every Wednesday for lunch! I add my own cheese!
A paper thin meat patty, boiled in onion juice! Yums!
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
54light15 Maybe so but there were none on Long Island in 1973. None in Canada, either which is probably good for my waist line.
Maybe so but there were none on Long Island in 1973. None in Canada, either which is probably good for my waist line.
You're lucky 54'. Back in the 80's some of the warehouse guys where I worked were going out for White Castles and asked if myself and another guy wanted some. "Sure!" we said, I'd never had any and he hadn't any any in years.
They were awful. I thought they tasted like poor-quality boullion cubes and my partner blurted out "What'd they do? They NEVER tasted like this years ago!"
I didn't hear any screams from the warehouse so I guess those guys liked 'em. I ran up the road to Callahan's hot dog stand and got Joe and myself some dogs. THOSE were great! I never tried another W-C.
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White Castle started in 1923, and started real expansion in 1959.
Yeah- no White Castles around in those days. Once, stoned on pot, I got pulled over by the cops with a quart of beer (65 cents in 1973!) in my jacket pocket. I was on a bicycle. Not to change the subject, which was I think, breakfast cereal.
54light15 I once smoke a joint and ate Special K right out of the box. Like eating ground up plywood.
I once smoke a joint and ate Special K right out of the box. Like eating ground up plywood.
Gave yourself a bad case of the "munchies" eh? Wacky-tabaccy'll do that. Serves ya right!
Yes, Grape Nuts was not an easy to eat cereal. Grape Nuts Flakes had no relation to Grape Nuts--there was a quite different composition to the flakes. I can understand using All-Bran as punishment; I have chewed grass stems, but eating hay is an entirely different matter.
My parents didn't like shredded wheat at all called being kids of the depression and WW2 was enough that they hated it. Their cereal of choice for no taste and punishment for us kids was Grape Nuts. Ever eaten roofing grit your pretty close in size and texture. My husband says his grandparents used All Bran or plain puffed rice or wheat to punish his family. They got Grape Nuts for being good. I asked what his grandparents used shredded wheat for. He said fire kindling to light the BBQ smoker.
I vaguely remember Shredded Wheat when it was BIG pillow shaped thingys (about the size of a kid's fist), then it became Mini-Wheats (the size of the end of an adult's thumb) and then those became Frosted Mini-Wheats when they added the powdered sugar coating. These days I mix Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios (2:1 ratio) to eat as late night snacks. Sometimes I can find Vanilla Chex to mix instead of the Honey Nut Cheerios, but I can only find them at Menards (a lumber/home store... why does a LUMBER YARD sell groceries?).
There's a great book about Tom called, "Tom Mix Died For Your Sins" by Darryl Ponicsan who wrote "The Last Detail" and "Cinderella Liberty" that I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with.
54light15I once had a bowl of Cocoa Puffs with chocolate milk. Not recommended. But I do have a picture of Tom Mix, a premium? from Ralston Purina cereal. "To my straight shooter pal," it's "autographed" on the front. It hangs in my living room. By the way, the car he died in (1937 Cord 812 convertible) has been restored.
WikipediaOn October 12, 1940, after visiting Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols in Tucson, Arizona,[4] Mix headed north towards Phoenix on U.S. Highway 80 (now Arizona State Route 79), driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton. He stopped to call his agent at the Oracle Junction Inn, a popular gambling and drinking establishment, then continued toward Phoenix. About eighteen miles south of Florence, Mix came upon construction barriers at a bridge washed away by a flash flood. Unable to stop in time, his car swerved twice, then overturned in a gully. A large aluminum suitcase containing money, traveler's checks, and jewels, situated on the package shelf behind his head, hurtled forward and struck him, breaking his neck.[4] He was 60 years old.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I well remember taking the inserts out--but I do not remeber cut-out projects on them; perhaps after my mother no longer bought the product. I do remember something about or by Tony Sarg on them.
I would eat shredded wheat if it were served here; the only shredded wheat served is the little pieces with powdered sugar on them, and I do not need the sugar though I do need fiber, so I eat raisin bran.
I once had a bowl of Cocoa Puffs with chocolate milk. Not recommended. But I do have a picture of Tom Mix, a premium? from Ralston Purina cereal. "To my straight shooter pal," it's "autographed" on the front. It hangs in my living room. By the way, the car he died in (1937 Cord 812 convertible) has been restored.
Shredded wheat wasn't a big thing in our house growing up, but I do vaugely remember the interiors of some cereal boxes being printed with various project outlines, like little houses and such. Long time ago.
Anyway, discussing Nabisco shredded wheat's a lot better than a dog fight over gun laws. That would bring the moderators running, let me tell you!
By the way, my favorite cereal now is "Apple Cinnimon Cheerios." Yum!
Does anyone else remember when the cereal boxes had cardboard sheets in between the layers of biscuits that had printed structures to cut out?
DeggestyI had never thought about why the picture of Niagara Falls was on the NaBisCo box--did the Natural Food Company become NaBisCo?
There's a long history, but basically, the Natural Food Company of Niagara Falls became the Shredded Wheat Company in 1908, and sold to Nabisco in 1928. In 1992, all shredded wheat production ended in Niagara Falls, and in 2000, Kraft bought Nabisco.
Now you know probably more than you ever wanted about shredded wheat.
And, the moderator is sure to remind us that shredded wheat is quite a bit off the topic of "Classy move, Cryo-Trains.
York1 John
Miningman Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix? A. None of the above ...Here is your answer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFwQoh7n Also a spiffy ad with a steam locomotive theme
Who was in the western comic book? Gene? Roy? Hopalong? Maybe Lash Larue, surely not Tom Mix?
tree68 .....During one of the seminars I attended today at the NYS Fire Chief's Expo, the speaker spoke of new fire recruits who have never heard the word "no." They don't know how to react - "no" is a totally foreign concept to them.
.....During one of the seminars I attended today at the NYS Fire Chief's Expo, the speaker spoke of new fire recruits who have never heard the word "no." They don't know how to react - "no" is a totally foreign concept to them.
I haven't noticed those cars yet, but now that I know they exist, I can start looking for them.
Deggesty When I was in college, there was an NBC in Roanoke, Virginia--National Business College. Their basketball team was not the best, whether they played us in Roanoke or Bristol.
When I was in college, there was an NBC in Roanoke, Virginia--National Business College. Their basketball team was not the best, whether they played us in Roanoke or Bristol.
A TV commercial, probably early 1950s.
https://youtu.be/0EcLIPiLtrs
York1 When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:
When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:
As it says, right on the box pictured above. My sister liked them crumbled with (brown) sugar and milk. I did not.
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