You know how you buy a bag of lettuce and it gets all brown and soggy!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Cookies don’t do that!

[XanaDUer2]

1. I just had a bunch of key lime cookies nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. 😋

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Does anyone remember generic cookies? From the 1979 inflation?

The idea was bland, plain packaging, paper sack, window, with wire cloture. Two color, black on white. No graphics. But they also put the bland in the cookies. They were awful. If you had a bag today I doubt they'd be soggy, but they'd still be no good.

Is my typing so bad that I put the wrong letters in and have to correct all the time. Sometimes I think auto-correct runs my keyboard.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. I missed those!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. They may have been a Stop 'n Shop or Jewel-T house brand of their day

That would be at the time New England or Chicago regional.

Here is the only reference I can find to it right now ... on eBay. I bet an original bag would fetch $20 today.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/354100860375?hash=item52720e55d7:g:Ir0AAOSwIKNioZ6v

[ReluctanceTango]

8. You didn't miss anything.

You were spared. One of my classmates had a cheapskate dad who insisted that the “little woman” buy only the black and white generic crap. The classmate all but lived with a neighbor family, just to get a decent meal. Last I heard, the “little woman” ran off with a girlfriend to Dallas, and the five kids didn’t speak to him from the time they left home to the day he died.

It didn’t surprise me. I avoided that dad like the plague because he was just plain mean, in every way. Texas mean, and that’s some bad mean.

[ironflange]

7. I remember those damn things!

Generic stuff these days is light years ahead of 1979.

[ReluctanceTango]

6. Dark chocolate M&Ms don't do that, either.

And thank goodness. I don’t get hypoglycemic moments often, but when I do, I reach for the M&Ms I keep on hand. A handful of chocolate brings my sugar right back up.