Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

Zombie_61 · Jun 19, 2018

2jakes said:
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If you see these words on your favorite products in the future;
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OVALTINE
The original flavor is “Lost in Space”....

"New and Improved" is an advertising slogan I've never understood. If it's "new" there was nothing previously to improve upon, and if it's "improved" there was a previous product so it can't be "new".

scottyrocks · Jun 20, 2018

3fingers said:
You might try a Brita filter pitcher. We have had one for years and they do work. There are other brands as well, but Brita is available at most stores. You can get 40 or more gallons out of a filter depending on what is in the water.

I've been using Britas for years. Maybe decades.

Recently I discovered a company called Zerowater. I read all their literature and then bought a 3-pack of their Brita-pitcher-friendly filters.

Let me put it this way: ZW is to Brita as Brita is to tap. It's just that much better.

scottyrocks · Jun 21, 2018

LizzieMaine said:
Large curd cottage cheese.

I haven't bought cottage cheese in a while, but I was craving some tonite, so I hit the grocery store on the way home, and reached for my usual container of Hood's Large Curd, which I've been eating all my life, and instead found Small Curd, Small Curd Lo-Fat, Small Curd Lactose Free, Small Curd with Weird Fruit Flavors and Chives and Crap, but no large curd. No Hood's Large Curd, no Oakhurst Large Curd, no Cabot's Large Curd, no Breakstone's Large Curd, not even any lousy Hannafid's Store Brand Large Curd. So much for "consumer choice." Have any kind of cottage cheese you want as long as it sucks.

When did large curd cottage cheese go extinct? Who even eats that gross small curd stuff, that's like milk that you forgot and left in the back seat of your car for a couple of days in the sun and tried to use thinking maybe it wasn't too far gone but it was. Feh. Meh. Bleah. Blech.

It's got to be another scheme by the Boys -- you can sell more whey with smaller curds, and whey is cheaper than curds. Bah. Blah. Grrrr.

Yep, large curd is the way to go. I won't touch small curd cottage cheese.

I was on a severe low-fat diet a while back and was disappointed that large curd cottage cheese only comes in full fat version. I skipped cottage cheese entirely until I decided that the few teaspoons of full fat large curd cottage cheese that I eat once in a while won't kill me.

I think Breakstone is the most common brand here for LCCC.

2jakes · Jun 21, 2018

scottyrocks said:
Yep, large curd is the way to go. I won't touch small curd cottage cheese.

I was on a severe low-fat diet a while back and was disappointed that large curd cottage cheese only comes in full fat version. I skipped cottage cheese entirely until I decided that the few teaspoons of full fat large curd cottage cheese that I eat once in a while won't kill me.

I think Breakstone is the most common brand here for LCCC.

I was wondering why their is a preference for a specific size cottage cheese.
Does each size have a distinct flavor from
each other which makes it taste different?
I once ate some and it was ok. I believe it
was served on a bed of lettuce and sliced pear. But it’s been ages.

scottyrocks · Jun 21, 2018

2jakes said:
I was wondering why their is a preference for a specific size cottage cheese.
Does each size have a distinct flavor from
each other which makes it taste different?
I once ate some and it was ok with a sliced
peach. But it’s been ages.

For me, yes, it's taste, but more importantly, consistency. Yes they both are mushy, but the feel of it in the mouth is different, and enough so for me to have the definite preference I do.

2jakes · Jun 21, 2018

scottyrocks said:
For me, yes, it's taste, but more importantly, consistency. Yes they both are mushy, but the feel of it in the mouth is different, and enough so for me to have the definite preference I do.

This might seem odd, but I prefer to eat a pecan which I have shelled and
eat one at a time rather than shell a bunch of the same pecans, put them
in a bowl and then eat them all at once.
If I do, the taste is different or too rich a flavor.

scottyrocks · Jun 21, 2018

2jakes said:
This might seem odd, but I prefer to eat a pecan which I have shelled and
eat one at a time rather than shell a bunch of the same pecans, put them
in a bowl and then eat them all at once.
If I do, the taste is different or too rich a flavor.

I do the same with pistachios because if I eat them shelled I eat too many and get sick.

2jakes · Jun 21, 2018

scottyrocks said:
I do the same with pistachios because if I eat them shelled I eat too many and get sick.

Perhaps you need to eat them unshelled.

Sorry, that was a nutty remark!

Fading Fast · Jun 21, 2018

scottyrocks said:
I do the same with pistachios because if I eat them shelled I eat too many and get sick.

As the saying goes, "when I wore a younger man's clothes" I used to shovel peanuts into my face by the fistful and thought nothing of it. Many pubs have them out and I'd eat a bunch with a few beers and then sit down to a heavy meal of pub grub and would feel great afterwards.

If I did that now, I'd die. Like you guys, I much more enjoy eating them one at a time and stoping way before I get filled up as eating too many just makes me feel ill. Now, I definitely appreciate what I eat more and notice nuances and flavors more since I'm not just stuffing food in to fill up.

LizzieMaine · Jun 21, 2018

scottyrocks said:
For me, yes, it's taste, but more importantly, consistency. Yes they both are mushy, but the feel of it in the mouth is different, and enough so for me to have the definite preference I do.

Small-curd upsets my stomach -- I think it's got a higher acid content than the large curd, thus the effect.

scottyrocks · Jun 21, 2018

LizzieMaine said:
Small-curd upsets my stomach -- I think it's got a higher acid content than the large curd, thus the effect.

Hmm, I'll bet there's some science going on there. haha

Haversack · Jun 22, 2018

I asked my wife about the difference between large & small curd cottage cheese, (one of her food-hobbies is cheese making). She said the primary difference is that large curd is made with rennet so it sets curds fast and produces less acidic whey, whereas small curd is made with a vegetable-derived 'rennet' so the curds form slower and the whey is more acidic. Rennet is an enzyme made from the lining of one of a calf's four stomachs. I suspect the reason for small curd becoming dominant on store shelves is that it is acceptable to vegetarians while large curd is not. Stores probably feel that most non-vegetarians don't care or notice the difference.

scottyrocks · Jun 22, 2018

Haversack said:
I asked my wife about the difference between large & small curd cottage cheese, (one of her food-hobbies is cheese making). She said the primary difference is that large curd is made with rennet so it sets curds fast and produces less acidic whey, whereas small curd is made with a vegetable-derived 'rennet' so the curds form slower and the whey is more acidic. Rennet is an enzyme made from the lining of one of a calf's four stomachs. I suspect the reason for small curd becoming dominant on store shelves is that it is acceptable to vegetarians while large curd is not. Stores probably feel that most non-vegetarians don't care or notice the difference.

Thank you for that explanation. It explains the particulars behind Lizzie's preference, as well.

Bruce Wayne · Jun 25, 2018

Pay toilets.

scottyrocks · Jun 25, 2018

Bruce Wayne said:
Pay toilets.

Thank goodness.

2jakes · Jun 25, 2018

scottyrocks said:
Thank goodness.

Zombie_61 · Jun 26, 2018

LizzieMaine · Jun 26, 2018

I'd actually welcome pay toilets, if only to stanch the flow of people in and out of here who only want to use the can. They use up our restroom supplies that cost us money, but leave nothing in return. Well, almost nothing.

Maybe parking meters would work.

Fading Fast · Jun 26, 2018

LizzieMaine said:
I'd actually welcome pay toilets, if only to stanch the flow of people in and out of here who only want to use the can. They use up our restroom supplies that cost us money, but leave nothing in return. Well, almost nothing.

Maybe parking meters would work.

I'm with you - I'm a fan of people paying a fair price for the use of others' resources, products or services.

scottyrocks · Jun 26, 2018

LizzieMaine said:
I'd actually welcome pay toilets, if only to stanch the flow of people in and out of here who only want to use the can. They use up our restroom supplies that cost us money, but leave nothing in return. Well, almost nothing.

Maybe parking meters would work.

Require a Susan B. Anthony dollar to use the toilet. Your patrons would be able to get one at the ticket booth, free of charge. Outsiders would have to just happen to have one on them. And then be willing to use it.

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