Odd Things You Remember From Being A Kid

[Iron Woode]

I was a kid all through the 70's, so there was no shortage of odd and weird stuff.

I remember getting pizza spread. It was sort of like spreadable pizza toppings to put on toast. It came in a can like salmon does. It wasn't bad but not great either. Anyone else remember that stuff?

I also remember those Minute Rice commercials with Alice from the Brady Bunch. One commercial said to add orange juice to the rice. That sounded nasty.

And cool prizes in cereal boxes. lol

 

[vi edit]

Hamburgler shot glasses coming in Happy Meals.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-13-V...s-1980s-Action-Adventure-Series-/370745027646?

 

[IronWing]

My wife and were just discussing cereal box prizes. Do cereal boxes still come with prizes or do they have stupid download codes printed on the inside?

 

[JEDIYoda]

I remember Marylin Chambers...damn to a young kid she was HOT!!!!

 

[Iron Woode]

I also remember our chip company Hostess deciding to test fruit flavoured chips. Grape, cherry and orange were offered. Grape wasn't half bad. It was a major fail for Hostess.

 

[vi edit]

My wife and were just discussing cereal box prizes. Do cereal boxes still come with prizes or do they have stupid download codes printed on the inside?

Nope. Now you just get fruit loops with added fiber.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-09-05-FrootLoops192x300.jpg

Unfortunately lawyers think that kids today are too stupid to discern the difference between a crunch berry and a large bag full of plastic parts and are concerned they will choke on them.

 

[waggy]

Hamburgler shot glasses coming in Happy Meals.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-13-V...s-1980s-Action-Adventure-Series-/370745027646?

lol i remember those. i had a few

 

[lxskllr]

Ashtrays everywhere, even clothing stores
Steel soda cans with a tab you could save
Prices were labeled with a sticker, not a UPC, or on the shelf
A local general store that sold groceries, and everything else, including guns.
Tang
Returnable bottles
TastyKakes were wrapped in wax paper
The world still seemed special, and I had an imagination...

 

[waggy]

Ashtrays everywhere, even clothing stores
Steel soda cans with a tab you could save
Prices were labeled with a sticker, not a UPC, or on the shelf
A local general store that sold groceries, and everything else, including guns.
Tang
Returnable bottles
TastyKakes were wrapped in wax paper
The world still seemed special, and I had an imagination...

oh yeah ash try's they were everywhere.

pop being in bottles.

 

[vi edit]

Pepsi logo looked like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Pepsi_logo.svg

Dorito's bags looking like this:
http://snortramen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/salsa-rio.jpg

 

[grohl]

Running around with my BB gun all day.
Shaklee vitamins my mom made me take.
Atari
Commodore 64
Cabinet TV's
Magic Shell for ice cream

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Various giveaways for getting a fill-up at a service station.

 

[vi edit]

Running around with my BB gun all day.

Oh hell yes.

I don't know how many of these I bought for $.50 from the local "Fair Store" in my little home town. I remember them being silver with a black top though.

http://www.kilwell.co.nz/Images/Daisy7535_zoom.jpg

 

[eldorado99]

 

[IronWing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9n2ImgJQ0

 

[eldorado99]

Also:

 

[Newbian]

Magic Shell for ice cream

That stuff is still around but I always hate solid chunks in my ice cream.

 

[Baked]

I grew up in the early 90s. I remember chewing gum made to look just like cigarettes in cigarette packs.

Free play on arcade machines in laundry mats. Good times.

 

[waggy]

Oh hell yes.

I don't know how many of these I bought for $.50 from the local "Fair Store" in my little home town. I remember them being silver with a black top though.

http://www.kilwell.co.nz/Images/Daisy7535_zoom.jpg

and you could get those little bb tubes damn near anywhere.

 

[Newbian]

Free play on arcade machines in laundry mats. Good times.

The dentist I went to as a kid had a space invaders machine with free play so it wasn't all bad while you waited in the lobby.

 

[kevman]

Garbage Pail Kids. for whatever reason I was hooked on those cards.

 

[xavier es]

edsels. and studebaker pickup trucks.

 

[lxskllr]

VW Beetles everywhere. I'm lucky if I see one a year now.

 

[waggy]

VW Beetles everywhere. I'm lucky if I see one a year now.

where do you live? i see a few a day

 

[lxskllr]

where do you live? i see a few a day

MD, You really see aircooled Beetles? It's a notable event for me. A Karmann Ghia might be enough for me to make a thread here. It's been a few years since I've seen one of those.