On May 16, 11:54�pm, Mark Thorson wrote:
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

As a kid, I worked in a grocery store stocking shelves
and it was 14� a can back then.

Geez, you must be old as dirt. �And I'll bet you marked
the price on the cans with a stamp using purple ink.
And all of the brands of ice cream would have been
insipid crap. �Good old days, indeed!

I'm 65 (well, tomorrow), and I remember Campbells tomato soup
constantly on sale three cans for 25 cents, all other flavors were ten
cents a can.

And you must be so young you ain't ripe yet. Compared to ice cream
from when I was a kid there is NO ice cream today, not unless you make
your own... what they call premium ice cream today is garbage compared
to the hand dipped back then. I don't remember packaged ice cream at
grocery stores, they didn't have any frozen foods then... no one would
buy them anyway because in the '40s hardly anyone had a fridge let
alone a freezer. We had an ica box until I was like ten. And then
the fridge had a freezer that could hold two ice cube trays is all,
and never got cold enough for keeping ice cream anyway. We bought
hand dipped from the corner soda fountains (there were many) and had
to eat it as soon as we arrived home. Mostly we had hand dipped ice
cream at home during winter. The ice cream parlors and fountains had
ice cream bars, pops, cups (with pictures under the lids), and melo
rolls (not gonna explain, you either know what a melo roll is or you
don't). Otherwise there were the Good Humor trucks, Mr. Softee, and
Bungalow Bar trucks... one of my first jobs when I got my drivers
licence was driving a Bungalow Bar truck.

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The dry ice was kept in the roof. There was a governer on the motor,
the truck's top speed was 5 MPH. The gasolene and dry ice was
supplied by the company (gas only cost 10 cents/gal back then) but the
individual drivers paid for their own ice cream, and it was up to the
driver to make sure to ice up every day. The job sucked. After about
two weeks I brought home whatever ice cream remained and a load of dry
ice to hold it awhile until we ate it all. I never made a dime
selling Bungalow Bar, in fact I lost money on that deal.

Since it was so cheap we ate a lot of tomato soup as kids, to this day
I hate Campbells tomato soup, I don't like any Campbell's soups.
Tomato soup couldn't be simpler to make your own, from a can of tomato
puree.