Remember when...

[gratus fermentatio]

I love the fact that you have to preemptively defend your Gandad's decision to own a K-Car by the fact that he owned a Dealership!

Now that we are admitting our poor decisions, I'll chime in and let everyone know when I was young we had a Chevy Chevette.

LOL, I owned an AMC Gremlin.
Regards, GF.

 

[russrob81]

My dad had a pinto that would run in the upper 12s until he hit a tree

 

[chawagi]

Remember when trans-fats used to make everything taste good?

I just had pack of Chips Ahoy for the first time since I was a kid (wanted to introduce my son to the glory of Chips Ahoy and milk), and they were ridiculously bland and unenjoyable. Tried a pack from a different store, same result. He loved them, but of course he's from the no trans-fat era. I remember them being so rich and almost creamy.

I don't live in a bubble, I've notice the difference in texture and flavor with other junk-foods from my childhood, but this one was so overwhelming it was like a slap in the face.

 

[GrogNerd]

I had a '76 Chevette. it leaked oil so bad, the smoke trail so thick I called the car Spy Hunter (remember when?)

couldn't afford to fix it, eventually the leak gunked up the rest of the engine and I abandoned it behind some bar in N Minneapolis

 

[Tinhorn]

Most of the cars I had as youth looked like a new pope was elected everytime I fired them up

 

[Beernik]

I used to drive a 78 Corolla. It was so small I could have taken out the front seat, sat in the back, and still worked the pedals. I had to hang a blanket in front of the radiator in the winter, otherwise the car's heater wouldn't work. And I had to put 4 tire chains in the hatchback area otherwise it would slide in the snow.

Also, air conditioning was just rolling the windows down.

 

[Tinhorn]

My old vw bug heater melted my hush puppies ! Tragic

 

[mbauer013]

I had a '76 Chevette. it leaked oil so bad, the smoke trail so thick I called the car Spy Hunter (remember when?)

couldn't afford to fix it, eventually the leak gunked up the rest of the engine and I abandoned it behind some bar in N Minneapolis

Yep my first car was a gold 1978 chevette that my dad traded a case of beer for. It was leaking about a quart of oil a day. My dad said if I could fix the oil leak it was mine. I drove that bad boy for a good 3 years and finally killed it by trying to see if I could get it up to 90 going down a hill. Broke a valve spring and the engine siezed before I could fix it.

No floorboards - you'd get wet if it had rained
No shift lever - Clamped a vise grip on
Broken tilt steering column - Duck tape and a wedge fixed that.

I still miss that car some times

 

[GrogNerd]

Yep my first car was a gold 1978 chevette that my dad traded a case of beer for. It was leaking about a quart of oil a day. My dad said if I could fix the oil leak it was mine. I drove that bad boy for a good 3 years and finally killed it by trying to see if I could get it up to 90 going down a hill. Broke a valve spring and the engine siezed before I could fix it.

No floorboards - you'd get wet if it had rained
No shift lever - Clamped a vise grip on
Broken tilt steering column - Duck tape and a wedge fixed that.

I still miss that car some times

"winter beater"

I tell people the story of my first winter in the Twin Cities. 60° below with the windchill and how we had to wait until spring for it to get warm enough to snow. 20° above and we're outside on the porch drinking beer in shorts and a t-shirt

and everywhere there is public parking, there are electrical outlets to plug in your oil pan heater. the 'Vette had a dipstick heater

 

[beaksnbeer]

"winter beater"

I tell people the story of my first winter in the Twin Cities. 60° below with the windchill and how we had to wait until spring for it to get warm enough to snow. 20° above and we're outside on the porch drinking beer in shorts and a t-shirt

and everywhere there is public parking, there are electrical outlets to plug in your oil pan heater. the 'Vette had a dipstick heater

I remember charcoal placed in pans under the engines (before electric dipsticks and plug heaters)

 

[bleme]

20° above and we're outside on the porch drinking beer in shorts and a t-shirt

OT cuz I'm sure they still do it but when I went to college in Fairbanks, girls would start wearing shorts to class when the temperature got up to zero.

 

[bleme]

My mom was just complaining tonight about how she can't find chipped beef any more.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Now that we are admitting our poor decisions, I'll chime in and let everyone know when I was young we had a Chevy Chevette.

I drove one for a while.

LOL, I owned an AMC Gremlin.
Regards, GF.

My mom once had a Pacer as a loaner, but she wouldn't let me drive it because it reeked of gasoline.

Yep my first car was a gold 1978 chevette that my dad traded a case of beer for.
No shift lever - Clamped a vise grip on
Broken tilt steering column -

Sounds like mine, except I had a manual transmission.

 

[lschiavo]

Friend of mine drove his chevette until the only thing that worked was the cigarette lighter. Being a bit of a redneck, he kept it on the property for a while... and used it to light cigarettes.

Just awesome.

"Got a light?" "You bet."

 

[lschiavo]

I had a Sunday paper route that was a mile from my house. Those papers were heavy and I pulled them (uphill) in the red wagon. I did ride the wagon back down the hill. I still have a typewriter and a few times a year find it usefull to fill in forms. My old man drove at least 3 pinto's into the ground. We had a huge Mercury Couger station wagon (w/8 track) and I would lay in the back and sleep on long trips without a booster seat or seatbelt or anything.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember airline travel when you could smoke on the plane? How about before the "jetway" was invented & you had to go out onto the tarmack & climb the mobile stairs to board the plane?

 

[mbauer013]

I drove one for a while.





My mom once had a Pacer as a loaner, but she wouldn't let me drive it because it reeked of gasoline.





Sounds like mine, except I had a manual transmission.

Yeah, mine was manual too. It was a b*tch when shifting into third and the vise grips would pop off. You'd be stuck in neutral, going round a bend in the road with nothing to do but let it come to a stop before searching for the "shift lever"

 

[bsjracing]

My mom once had a Pacer as a loaner, but she wouldn't let me drive it because it reeked of gasoline.

I may have driven a Pacer too...they didn't become cool until Wayne Campbell debuted the MirthMobile.

Speaking of games lost to political correctness...when was the last time the boys in the school yard went out and played "Smear the Queer"?

 

[unionrdr]

Haven't played smear the queer in years! didn't think anyone remembered that one. Now you can't even smoke in the airport,but you can get craft beer. I swear,this world is def becoming a ***** whipped brady bunch version of itself. To much PC coming from t he*****fussy crowd. Shut the hell up & let me smoke with my beer,cuss & fart.

 

[mpc88]

Remember when they actually had music videos on MTV, and not all that "reality" crap they have on it now?

I remember people actually cooking on the Food Network, instead of, all-of-a-sudden.......reality shows......OMG, I swear everybody's just getting greedier and greedier

 

[thatjonguy]

I remember people actually cooking on the Food Network, instead of, all-of-a-sudden.......reality shows......OMG, I swear everybody's just getting greedier and greedier

I miss Good Eats.

 

[Cathedral]

I remember people actually cooking on the Food Network, instead of, all-of-a-sudden.......reality shows......OMG, I swear everybody's just getting greedier and greedier

Yeah... remember when there was no food network? I remember when I first heard of it. Nobody could believe an entire channel would be dedicated to food. How naive we were.

 

[Beernik]

I remember people actually cooking on the Food Network, instead of, all-of-a-sudden.......reality shows......OMG, I swear everybody's just getting greedier and greedier

I remember when it was essentially The Emeril Channel.

BAM!!!!

 

[Cathedral]

Remember when it was cool to hate Brad Pitt and Justin Timberlake? Then Pitt goes ahead and does cool stuff like Se7en, Snatch, and Basterds, and Timberlake does Diq in a Box.

 

[russrob81]

There was a British guy with an umbrella that had a cooking show on PBS before the food network came along. I think his name was graham Kerr. My grandmother hated him and always said he was as queer as a two dollar bill. When his show came on we'd turn the volume up and take the batteries out of the remote

 

[Cathedral]

Remember Yan Can Cook?

Magic!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Remember Yan Can Cook?

Magic!

I dislike Tyler Florence. However, I have to say he won some serious points with me when he had Martin Yan on one of his shows. He kept saying over and over "OH MY GOD I HAVE MARTIN YAN ON MY SHOW!"

Thats the kind of respect the man deserves.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember Yan Can Cook?

Magic!

"Co-co-nut miewk."
I like Yan, he seems to have sort of dropped off the map though.
Ever watch Tommy Tang on PBS? He makes some tasty Thai food.
Regards, GF.

 

[GrogNerd]

Remember when it was cool to hate Brad Pitt and Justin Timberlake? Then Pitt goes ahead and does cool stuff like Se7en, Snatch, and Basterds, and Timberlake does Diq in a Box.

trying my dangdest, but I just can't seem to hate JT.

There was a British guy with an umbrella that had a cooking show on PBS before the food network came along. I think his name was graham Kerr. My grandmother hated him and always said he was as queer as a two dollar bill. When his show came on we'd turn the volume up and take the batteries out of the remote

The Galloping Gourmet. used to watch him with my Nana. unlike your grandmother, mine liked him

she also loved Dark Shadows, we watched that with her too

 

[unionrdr]

Yup. Graham Kerr,the galloping gourmet. Then my bigger favorite,Jeff Smith,the frugel gourmet. Julia Childs,& def can't forget the "BAM!" guy Emeril Lugasi. I gotta get his luisiana cookin book again. Lost my recipes for jalepeno jam & essence. I used to make that essence a quart mason jar at a time. I made so many different seasonings & rubs out of that besides different cajun dishes. I also like Man vs food & triple D for getting some new ideas from around the country. And def can't leave out Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations!:cross: We both used to rush home from school to watch Dark Shadows when it came on.