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irisblue

(32,968 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 12:12 PM Oct 2019

This would have gotten your house egged in the 70s

Imagine just this item being teleported back to an suburban northern US neighborhood in 1978. Your Mom thinks tjis is a healthy snack and does this. Your Dad power washes the house the next Saturday, picks up the TP on Sunday after church.

Now, seems likely.

Kraft Natural Cheese (@kraftcheese) Tweeted:
#GetKrafty this Halloween with string cheese ghosts.

(We tried to make them spooky, but they just came out looking adorable.) https://t.co/vyhCbV0Rly




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This would have gotten your house egged in the 70s (Original Post) irisblue Oct 2019 OP
I would have loved it! I'm a cheese hound. fleur-de-lisa Oct 2019 #1
I'm old enough to have participated tipping over out houses. Kaleva Oct 2019 #2
That's worse than handing out apples or raisins Freddie Oct 2019 #3
Yep! But I sure wouldn't mind eating one of those now.... FM123 Oct 2019 #4
Would you bite the 'red tip' off 1st? 10cents right? irisblue Oct 2019 #5
omg you have a good memory for details! FM123 Oct 2019 #8
Well, Dads' Phillip Morris regular had a red tip. irisblue Oct 2019 #9
Not as bad as the Herbalife nutrition bars my kids got one year. hunter Oct 2019 #6
These ghosts Tree-Hugger Oct 2019 #7

Freddie

(9,259 posts)
3. That's worse than handing out apples or raisins
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 12:27 PM
Oct 2019

Chocolate or bust. My grandkids get far too much candy and it’s up to me to make sure they don’t get too much of a sugar high.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
4. Yep! But I sure wouldn't mind eating one of those now....
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 12:30 PM
Oct 2019

But back in the 60's and 70's when I was a kid what I really thought was nifty was "cigarette gum". Imagine if folks gave that out to kids now!

irisblue

(32,968 posts)
9. Well, Dads' Phillip Morris regular had a red tip.
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:07 AM
Oct 2019

But, thinking back, hard on it, 10 cents seems like alot of money in 62/63 for a five year old to have for candy.

hunter

(38,310 posts)
6. Not as bad as the Herbalife nutrition bars my kids got one year.
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 12:53 PM
Oct 2019

I suspect that was the end of Herbalife in that household, I imagined a disgruntled spouse handing out the remaining stock to unsuspecting children.

We had other neighbors who were some kind of fundamentalist Christian. They would lure children in with full size candy bars and then tell them that Halloween was evil, handing out religious pamphlets along with the candy. These pamphlets would be scattered all over the neighborhood the next morning. This house was a favorite destination for the sorts of smart-mouthed 11-15 year olds who used to read MAD magazine.


Tree-Hugger

(3,370 posts)
7. These ghosts
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 01:34 PM
Oct 2019

String cheese ghosts are a very common class party treat. I would not give them out to trick or treaters.

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