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Originally Posted by susie123
This question was brought to mind when I heard someone ask the other day where he could buy drinking straws. I reflected that nowadays, like everything else, they are made of plastic and often come with a bendy bit in the middle so that you can sip your drink at a comfortable angle. And you can also pick them up in handfuls off the counter at Wetherspoons and other establishments, should you so wish.
Do you remember when straws were made out of wax paper glued together in spirals? And how the bottom bit started to unwind if you left it in the drink for too long? and how the top bit in your mouth would go flat if you sucked too hard and kept it in your mouth too long till it went soggy?
And do you remember having your school milk in a third pint bottle with a foil cap through which you had to put the straw? And the metal crate the bottles came in?
What memories were evoked when I heard someone ask a simple question about shopping!
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How could anyone forget -we also got proper orange juice at school on special days in place of the milk. Those were the days -milk monitors who changed weekly! it was a great honour...
Mum used to send me and sister Denise across to Enfield CC when they were playing at home during the summer to get us out of her hair - dad used to be there all day watching -the incentive was that he'd buy us a bottle of pop (+ straw as you describe) and a packet of crisps!
Do you remember the Humphrey ads of the seventies Sue?
Watch out there's a Humphrey about!
