I do think that NaBisCo was named after tea biscuits--and when they began making the shredded wheat they decided "biscuit" was the best description.
Perhaps mixing All Bran with shredded wheat makes the All Bran palatable. To me the pure stuff was like hay.
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.
Johnny
Ever hear of "ghost signs," those old advertisements painted on the sides of buildings that re-materialise, for lack of a better term, when an adjacent building's torn down?
There's a Nabisco, actually National Biscuit Company, sign on an old building in Richmond advertising a new product called "Oreos." That means the sign was painted in 1912, the year of the "Titanic."
The sign's in a lot better shape than the ship is.
York1When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:
Seems like we called them that, too. I always crushed mine before adding milk.
My maternal grandfather liked to mix shredded wheat with All Bran. It was actually quite tasty.
On a slightly different tack - anyone remember "Krumbles?"
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When I was growing up, the individual items of shredded wheat were called biscuits:
York1 John
OvermodNever heard of Nabisco Shredded Wheat as called anything but that
I think it may have been on the box itself, but somewhere I remember seeing the individual units of Shredded Wheat referred to as biscuits.
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The Skipper asked Gilligan what he thought of the grass skirt that the Skipper was wearing. Gilligan said, "You look like a bowl of soggy shredded wheat."
DeggestyBiscuits? Shredded wheat biscuits--you know, the large biscuits that made a breakfast meal.. As I recall, that is what they were called.
I think the NAtional BIScuit COmpany was named using the older (and still British) definition of biscuit as in 'tea biscuit', aka what a Social Tea, one of my favorite childhood cookies, was).
Never heard of Nabisco Shredded Wheat as called anything but that (it was, in fact, the basis of the secret occult password of at least one college society, backward; takes practice to say it correctly so it 'plays forward' right: Taehw Dedderhs Ocsiban.
Biscuits? Shredded wheat biscuits--you know, the large biscuits that made a breakfast meal.. As I recall, that is what they were called.
"Buscuit"? Is that like a really, really large cookie? Or something served by a Pickwick steward?
Flintlock76A former Nabisco plant?
You know when I first saw the large stencil on the building I was like......."National Buscuit Company" what did they used to make there? Then it clicked "National Buscuit Company" = "Nabisco". At least I think it said National Buscuit it could have said another Buscuit and I had to Google. Someday I will look again to refresh my memory BUT definitely a former Nabisco plant.
I was really fortunate to be part of an exceptional class in 6th grade with our teacher, Mr. Larson. Best teacher I ever had. We took a field trip to Washington, DC. Rode the Capital Limited from Chicago. Sure wish they hadn’t torn down Grand Central. Exceptional place. The Limited had 20 plus cars. Remember being in the bubble top in the evening watching the signals turn red from green as we advanced. Then Mr. Larson having us wake up to see the glowing blast furnaces of Pittsburgh in the middle of the night as we passed them. Watching the front end of the train from our car’s window as it would bend through the curves as we traversed the route through the mountains the next morning.
As we were about to leave Washington Union on our way back, Mr. Larson and I sneaked off up the platform to see the engines of our train. I remember seeing a GG1 on an adjacent track. And then Mr. Larson asked the engineer and fireman of our train if we could get up into the cab of the E unit. They said yes, and helped us up the ladder. I can still see being in that cab. What an exhilarating experience for a kid like me. Mr. Larson had me promise to not tell my classmates what we did. It was so hard to contain my enthusiasm about it.
In 1961 in first grade we took a class trip on the LIRR into Penn Station. It might have been doomed, railroads were in decline but that was a busy place! I asked a guy driving a forklift in the freight room what was in his odd-shaped box- He yelled, "It's a harp!" We were all weighed on the scale and a bunch of 6 year olds weighed a ton! We walked along a platform and there was a streamlined train that was just gleaming- it was leaving for Florida later that day. It was all white inside as I recall. An ACL train? that trip has always stuck with me, obviously.
Later we walked to the Empire State Building and a group picture of us was taken on the 86th floor. What a day that was!
Back in class Mrs. Simmons, our teacher had us paint a mural of train tracks and when we painted the green grass, things got a little out of hand- Chip Geraghty had paint all over his clothes and even on his teeth! Somehow that became my fault and I got yelled at. Jeez!
My husband had a few fun field trips in his school days according to his mom who normally drove the bus. They got to go to thru a glass plant then a steel mill then the best one was due to his success in 8th grade on the acedemic team. His coach pulled a couple of strings and along with her husband got the whole team passes to the local nuclear power plant. This was way before 9/11 and security concerns were way less than what they're now.
CMStPnP Flintlock76 Nabisco LMAO. less than a mile from the former Nabisco plant in the major city I work, so your getting warmer.
Flintlock76 Nabisco
LMAO. less than a mile from the former Nabisco plant in the major city I work, so your getting warmer.
A former Nabisco plant? You poor people, no Nabisco cookie smell!
However, your avatar block says "From Dallas TX," so I suppose there's some good Texas barbecue smells wafting around!
Hmm, you're in Dallas and work in a place guarded by people with M-4's. Wild guess time, is it the Comanche Peak Power Plant? PM me if I'm correct, if I'm not just say so.
I used to service the copiers at Dominion Va's North Anna Power plant from time to time, the armament of the guards there sounds just like yours.
Flintlock76 54light15 CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work? We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade. We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great! Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution. There were guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in. Cool! A couple of cannons too! That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way. If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!
54light15 CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work? We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade. We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great! Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution. There were guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in. Cool! A couple of cannons too! That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way. If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!
CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work?
54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work?
We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present.
The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade.
We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great! Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution.
There were guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in. Cool! A couple of cannons too!
That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way. If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!
The field trips that I remember were the tour of Washington, DC, the various government buildings and several hours to view whatever we wanted in The Smithsonian - including the art gallery. Another trip was to Spring Grove, PA and the Glatfelter Paper Company - talk about SMELL, you didn't want to smell that smell. Another Pennsylvania trip was to Gettysburg to tour the battlefield areas - to envision that battle in those heavy uniforms after having marched miles and miles to get there in the Mid-Atlantic Summertime......
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Flintlock76 54light15 CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work? I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour. So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour. Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade. We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great! Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution. There were guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in. Cool! A couple of cannons too! That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way. If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!
54light15 CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work? I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour. So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour. Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards We took a class trip to the Pan Am terminal at Idlewild Airport in 1962. I lost my junior pilot's wings, damn it, but I still have the coloring book they gave us. I did a nice job with the Boeing 707 if I do say so myself! No machine guns were present. The two best field trips I went on in school were when I was in the fifth grade. We went to the Nabisco works in Fair Lawn NJ, wow did that place smell great! Came home with a box of chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Then there was a field trip to the Morristown National Park, the site of two encampments of Washington's army during the Revolution. There were guns there, but they were Brown Bess and Charleville muskets, with a few Hessian Potsdam muskets thrown in. Cool! A couple of cannons too! That Nabisco plant is still there, by the way. If the wind's right you get a real thrill driving past it on Route 208!
CMStPnP 54light15 Umm- where exactly do you work? I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour. So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.
I can't say overtly on social media but you should be able to guess based on what I stated already because just about everyone visits us as a school kid on a tour. So just think back to your child hood when you potentially first saw security guards with machine guns on a tour.
Wow. We went to a dairy and we got Eskimo Pies afterwards
My childhood field trips included a road safety course (complete with really fun kiddie cars), Edmonton's recycling centre + garbage dump, and many different pizza and ice cream parlours. Never saw any guns.
A police officer would occasionally visit the school to give presentations (including Operation Lifesaver), and would be in full uniform and gear. But I never payed any attention to their guns.
RE: Eskimo Pies, the word "Eskimo" is now considered a offensive slur by some, and there is actually a movement afoot to force the Edmonton Eskimos football team to change their name, similar to what is going on with the D.C. NFL team (that one actually is offensive).
I'm not going to get publicly involved in the gun debate on here.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
tree68 charlie hebdo You need to consult a better lawyer. There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate. While there may be variations from state to state, I tend to agree. While my mother was a willing participant, the fact that my sister (who lived near Mom, as opposed to my other sister and myself) had complete access, if not full control, to Mom's affairs made for a much smoother transistion when she did pass.
charlie hebdo You need to consult a better lawyer. There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate.
You need to consult a better lawyer. There are mechanisms and it is possible for you to have full management over her estate.
While there may be variations from state to state, I tend to agree. While my mother was a willing participant, the fact that my sister (who lived near Mom, as opposed to my other sister and myself) had complete access, if not full control, to Mom's affairs made for a much smoother transistion when she did pass.
Of course there are legal safeguards, such as a guardian ad litem and examination. If any other children contest the matter, all bets are off.
Flintlock76Nabisco
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
BaltACDIn today's USA 'mental health' is just a buzz word for don't bother me with your problems, its all about the Benjamins.
The big issue I am having in my life is my surviving Parent can no longer responsibly handle her finances but I cannot remove the decision making authority on her finances unless I get her declared medically incompetent. In which case I need a medical opinoin (most Doctors will not do that unless it is obvious to the brain dead) that states that on paper or she has to be voluntarily willing to sign that away (afraid of being placed in a nursing home). All a Financial Power of attorney does in our society is just gives you informational access to the financial accounts. I still need her signature to do anything financially with the accounts. Everyone knows this including the con artists that call her........she has been ripped off twice over the phone already to the tune of $6000.00 so far. One of her past financial advisors ripped her off for more by selling a dog annuity to her. One of her priests at her church took her for a ride on the buy your way to heaven plan. All I can do is sit back and watch this happen as I cannot intercede in the financial transactions.
It's pretty bad but that is what we are stuck with.
54light15Umm- where exactly do you work?
Who needs to be able to own a semi auto rifle. How about a law abiding citizen on the South side of Chicago where the weather on the weekends can be told by the bodycount on Monday. Or a shop owner protecting his store from being robbed for the 10 time this year.
The average response time for anything in Chicago that's gun related is almost 15 minutes before the first officers arrive on site. That's a hell of a long time to be wishing you could be fighting back.
Slight correction or addition. Ending the captivity of millions in state hospitals and asylums was an outgrowth of the combination of the civil fights movement and the discovery that neuroleptic medications could bring some relief to those actually diagnosed with schizophrenia. Community-based mental health centers were to be funded to provide support, medication and counseling to these newly liberated souls. Unfortunately the federal government never funded these facilities at the planned level and starting with Reagan, severe cuts were made. Follow the Benjamin's and Grovers (Cleveland).
CMStPnP Flintlock76 And then there's Switzerland. The Swiss have compulsary military service for all able-bodied males from the ages of 18 up to, in some cases, 49. Aside from a small full-time military it's essentially a massive reserve force. Members are responsible for their personal weapons, are issued the same, and up until recently were required to keep them at home. They now have the option of depositing them in local armories if they choose. How many take the option I don't know. That being said, we can for all intents and purposes say that the Swiss are a people armed to the teeth. We don't hear of any mass shootings there. We should ask why. Or maybe the chocolates, the cheeses, and the trains are so good they've got nothing to be PO'd about? (I had to throw some rail-themed words in there!) I apologize, I said I'd say no more. So it goes back to how the Swiss handle mental incompetence and mental illness versus how it is handled in this country. Same deal with the Germans. Both are worlds apart from the United States.
Flintlock76 And then there's Switzerland. The Swiss have compulsary military service for all able-bodied males from the ages of 18 up to, in some cases, 49. Aside from a small full-time military it's essentially a massive reserve force. Members are responsible for their personal weapons, are issued the same, and up until recently were required to keep them at home. They now have the option of depositing them in local armories if they choose. How many take the option I don't know. That being said, we can for all intents and purposes say that the Swiss are a people armed to the teeth. We don't hear of any mass shootings there. We should ask why. Or maybe the chocolates, the cheeses, and the trains are so good they've got nothing to be PO'd about? (I had to throw some rail-themed words in there!) I apologize, I said I'd say no more.
So it goes back to how the Swiss handle mental incompetence and mental illness versus how it is handled in this country. Same deal with the Germans. Both are worlds apart from the United States.
As I tend to recall about 40 years ago or so, the Mental Health movement was for the elimination of hospitals and facilities for the mentally ill and all but the worst patients were to be 'Main Streamed' with the general population. A general population that is in no way equipped to deal with their issues and needs. It was all about the Benjamins, not mental health.
Health Insurance that exists today will only cover short periods of 'mental health' care - its all about the Benjamins.
Near where I live there is an entire hospital complex with nearly 100 building on several hundred, if not a thousand acres of land that was a state mental health facility. Within the past couple of years the State has deeded the facility - buildings and land to be 'developed' by my small town of 4400 people. Lord only knows how this will turn out - discussion of the property and it's development was a big point of discussion in the 'Town Council Debate' that was held prior to the Town Council Election in early May.
In today's USA 'mental health' is just a buzz word for don't bother me with your problems, its all about the Benjamins.
So, back to the cars decorated with murder sites, how many psychos are trying to plan an even bigger body count so as to get THEIR kill zone so commemorated?
"Ah, someone that has never worked in a high visibility target type building before....."
Nope, never have unless you consider an aircraft carrier a high visibilty target. Umm- where exactly do you work?
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