Okay, so this one is not useful, but I was just intrigued by the inventiveness of the past. This came from a 1955 newspaper column saved by my grandmother, and given the current supply chain issues, I thought I’d share. Granted, we don’t much use linoleum these
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So I would never have thought about some of these combinations, but I just might have to try a couple! (Plus I used to go to the soda fountain in City Drug and had no idea that they once made custom lotions and such!)
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Are Post Toasties still made? Do you know anything about the history of C.W. Post? He was an industrialist in the 19th century noted for his development of breakfast cereals, but he has a Texas connection. There’s a town about 30 miles from Lubbock named after him,
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Jello salads containing all manner of oddities were quite the rage in the 1950s and 60s, but I didn’t realize they were popular before that. I’ve actually eaten a salad something like this as a kid, and I just may have to try it again to see
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