bull drink water wrote:
if you are over 75, then you may remember some of the good things from the "good ole days"
1. when people weren't allergic to peanuts strawberries, and just about any food you can think of.
2 rugs, matress's, major appliances that actually lasted almost 20 yrs.
3 drugs that didn't have a longer list of bad side effects than the problems they treated.
4 long flights with friendly flight attendents and decent food.and the customer came first.
5 cars that the average Joe could fix with a few directions.
6 water melons that you didn't have to plug a dozen to get a sweet one.
7 big, ripe, juicy, good tasting produce ie. apples, pears, peaches, and tomatos to name a few. now days the only place to get them is the local farmers market.
8 beef, pork, chicken, and turkey that isn't full of growth hormones, or so bland that you have to over season it . the dark meat always had more flavor, not any more.
all to often progress shortchanges us in important areas.
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I'm going to add one more. I grew up in a tenement immigrant neighborhood in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. I can remember the "Icea man" coming around on his horse drawn cart yelling, "Icea....Icea.....Fivea centa... tena centa. He had these long blocks of ice and then use his ice pick to chip out the right amount. I can remember picking up the ice chips on a hot summer day. My mother would send me or one of my brothers down to get the ice for the "ice box" It was my brother Timmy's job to make sure the tray was emptied from the ice melting. He forgot just once. My father made sure that would never happen again.