Julie Bove wrote:
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>> RodS wrote:
>>> On 6/02/2010 4:06 PM, Ozgirl wrote:
>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>>>>>> ~ky~ wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> I am smoking a chicken, and making cheesy cauliflower bake
>>>>>>>>>> and salad for dinner. 1 small bag of peanuts in the shell,
>>>>>>>>>> and 2 very cold, almost freezing, Miller Chills during the
>>>>>>>>>> game, one in the first half, and one in the second half.
>>>>>>>>>> Just the two of us this year, so nothing really fancy.
>>>>>>>>>> Yours? Friends coming, or you going somewhere else?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What's a "super bowl?"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> An oversized serving bowl, silly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here that is called a popcorn bowl.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here, a popcorn bowl is something big enough to fit your popcorn
>>>>>> in I am truly thankful to the Americans who over time have
>>>>>> made a serving bowl/dish etc for every occasion. My prized
>>>>>> possession is my glass hard-boiled egg plate. It looks fabulous
>>>>>> filled with devilled eggs!
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had several egg things over the years. No glass ones though.
>>>>
>>>> Similar to this which I am not sure is plastic or glass. Mine has a
>>>> nice glass.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you keep it in the same draw as your Automatic belly button brush
>>> :-)
>>
>> Aww, never seen those. My late aunt used to give all the adult
>> nieces and nephews a token pressie at Xmas, just something small. My
>> girl cousins and I used to have great fun trying to work out what
>> the things were we actually got. One year we decided my gift was a
>> pickled onion picker upperer. Damn me if it wasn't the coolest
>> thing! I was so pleased. I used it for many, many years. It looked
>> sorta like a syringe and you grabbed the onion with claws, like
>> those claw games at amusements centres where you pay a bunch of
>> money to keep missing the toys I believe some of the things she
>> gave out were gifts for games at Tupperware parties. I recently
>> acquired (from goodness knows where) a keyring, It is a miniature
>> Tupperware shape-o. I am thrilled!
>> http://www.tupperwarekeychains.com/shap_O%20ball.htm Here is the original
>> shape-o
>> http://www.tupperdiva.com/toys/pages/shapeo.html
>
> We had one of those. Don't know if we still do. It was sold as an
> olive grabber. My husband was intrigued by it. Not that he has the
> patience to actually use such a thing.
>
> My maternal grandma ordered cases of things when they had a store. We'd
> all get the same thing for Christmas. One year it was stuffed
> poodles. One cousin was angry with me because I got the pink one and
> she wanted it.
> After the store closed, they kept all the stock in an old railroad car
> behind the house. We were allowed to go in there and shop for
> birthday presents.

Ah, an olive grabber. Back in the day I never ate olives or most veggies
other than potatoes, lol. So to me it was a pickled onion "grabber".