By Staff
I read somewhere recently about people sitting around at night eating a big dishpan full of popcorn.
Boy, did that bring back memories of my mother's big old aluminum dishpan that had two handles, one on each side.
And yes, that old dishpan also used to be full of popcorn at different times for an evening of good eating.
I also recall how she used that old pan full of popcorn when she made those big delicious molasses popcorn balls for our Oak Street grade school parties.
As a kid a favorite treat was a five-cent Popsicle. I haven't had one for many years.
In reading an article, I learned how they came about.
It was by accident when an 11-year-old kid left his fruit-flavored drink with a stirring stick in it out on the porch on a cold winter night.
Would you believe this was 100 years ago in 1905?
Remember those twin Popsicles, where you could break it in half and save half of it in the freezer for a treat later?
And don't forget the Creamsicle, another favorite that was a water-flavored-ice-pop with ice cream inside.
I remember them as orange-coated on the outside.
Now that I'm dreaming, I can't forget those old five-cent Eskimo Pies we used to get at Leo Parker's store across from old Oak Street School and also at the 3-R food store on N. Front.
The reason we call those hot August days "Dog Days" was because it was started by the Romans.
They believed that the hottest days of summer were caused by the Dog Star Sirius rising with the sun and adding its heat to the day.
Now here's something that boggles my mind.
How do they make those Cheerios out of oats and Rice Krispies out of rice and also Corn Flakes out of corn?
I'm sure not going to lose any sleep over it.
How many remember when plain old candy suckers were greatly improved by putting some Tootsie Roll candy in the center of them?
Also, in my old days of licking those penny babies they had wooden sticks, not like the ones made now out of a kind of rolled paper, which is for safety, I suppose.