Sugar coated gum drops and spice drops used to be as ubiquitous as Snickers bars in every candy display. I have no clue when that changed but I went to 7 stores yesterday and found that none of them carry that candy any longer. I figured it had to be a fluke so I went online and looked for them and see that now they are only sold as a specialty candy for the most part and have gone bonkers in price. Of course when you have a 78 year old Mom looking to relive her youth through candy you WILL go online and pay that price.
What is something you remember fondly that used to be sold just about everywhere that is darn hard to find or just gone now?
Haha, good one! I had to explain to my 5-year-old son what a phone booth was. He saw the skeletal remains of one in a city recently and thought it was a funny porta-potty.
Of course, he’s also asked why his grandparent’s phone has a wire…
You can still find them, but they’ve fallen out of favor. I really miss reading a newspaper. Not only was it connection to your city or local community, but created a physical and metaphorical barrier between oneself and the family. Traditionally, it stated, “Dad is engaged in serious and important dad things, so don’t interrupt him unless your business is critical to the health of the family.”
I read my morning paper on a tablet. Still get the curated selection, long read analysis and comics I’d get with a traditional paper. But less wrestling actual paper to read it and less dead trees.
I used to enjoy Australian Aviation, White Dwarf, PC Power Play and the occasional railway magazine (model or “full scale”, as long as it was steam), but I walked into a newsagent for the first time in a while looking for pen refills and there’s not much there, and what is there seems to be a loss leader for some online subscription service…
Car magazines still seem to be a thing… they’re probably propped up by the classifieds (private sales) section …
