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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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 Posted - 04/30/2007 : 19:26:16
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A couple clarifications before I make my own list:
Milk Duds are chocolate covered balls of caramel, but it's also possible that duh was thinking of the Sugar Daddy's little cousin, Sugar Babies. They're basically the same as Milk Duds, although they might be stickier.
Sherbet and Sorbet are both frozen desserts, but they're not the same thing. Sorbet is completely non-dairy, while sherbet (or sherbert) is much closer to ice cream, just with less milk and/or more sugar. While many people incorrectly use the two terms interchangeably, it's important to know the distinction because sorbet is appropriate for those who are lactose intolerant, or keep kosher and want something parave, while sherbet would be unacceptable for both. Trust me, I worked in an ice cream store (and please, don't call the Jimmies "sprinkles" or the frappes "milk shakes").
"Five in the closet" is similar to the game we played: "Seven in heaven." I like our version better, with the two extra minutes. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 20:36:44
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Candy
Necco Wafers: The oldest continually manufactured candy in the US, these are the signature item of the New England Confectioner Company (NECCo), who's factory used to be right across the river from my office, in Cambridge (it's now the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, and the factory has moved to Revere). The candy is a thin round disk that sort of resembles a communion wafer, and is sold in a roll like Life Savers. They're just slightly chalky, but with delicious flavers of lemon, orange, lime, clove, licourice, cinammon, wintergreen, and chocolate. The chocolates were always highly prized, not just because they were the best flavor, but they were always very scarce: often, you'd only find one in the very center of the roll. If you were REALLY lucky, you might find a whole roll of only chocolate Neccos, but that was like finding a black pearl. Today, these appeal to just a niche market in New England, but they were once immensely popular, and the candy itself is still very popular in the rest of the country once a year, albeit in a different shape: they're Sweathearts, also known as Conversation Hearts, the #1 Valentines Day candy in the world.
Sky Bar: Another classic from NECCo. This is a chocolate bar with four creme-filled compartment sections, like a Caramello, but with a special twist: each compartment is a different flavor. There's a vanilla (almost a nougat but not quite), chocolate fudge, caramel, and peanut putter. These are getting increasingly hard to find, the only places I still see them are old independent pharmacies...and those are disappearing rapidly, too.
Games
Four Square: Oh boy was I good at this. The game is played with a large ball that bounces, you can use a basketball but kickballs (or dodgeballs) work best. You start with a square court drawn on the pavement, divided into 4 equal sections (Squares One, Two, Three, and Four, each about 4'x4'). Sometimes kids use adjacent sidewalk squares. The object is to work your way up from the Fourth Square to the First Square (or the numbers might be reversed) by eliminating other players one at a time.
The First Square is the server. He or she serves the ball by throwing or striking the ball into another player's square. The serve must be fair and playable, "slamming" is not allowed. If the ball hits your square, you must deflect it to another player's square before it hits the ground a second time or you are out. You must strike the ball, carries and catches are strictly prohibited and will get you out. If you deflect it out of bounds, you are out. If you hit another player with the ball before it hits their square, you are out. If you deflect it before it hits your square, you are out (note that these two rules can come into conflict. Did he try to play the ball before it hit his square, or was the ball deflected INTO him? Majority rules, the game is self-governing). If you cross over the line and step into another player's square, you are out. When you're out, you must leave the court and go to the back of the line. Unless you were in Square Four, everyone below your square moves up a square, and Square Four gets filled by the next person waiting in line. That means that if Square One (server) gets eliminated, the player in Square Two moves to Square One and is now the server. Some regions require underhand strikes, but usually overhands are allowed as long the palm is open (again: no slamming).
The best part of this game is that the Server gets to add whatever custom rules he or she wants, even if they contradict a basic ground rule, provided they're all announced before the serve. Some examples of server rules:
Passback: If another player hits the ball into your square and says "passback," you must deflect it back to their square or you are out.
Landmines: The server determines that a particular part of each square - usually one corner - is off-limits. If you deflect the ball into that part of another person's square, you are out.
Chickenfeet: Modifies the "if you hit someone's body before you hit their square you are out" rule. If the ball hits their feet - and only their feet - before it touches their square, they are out, not you. (I mastered this technique so well that nobody ever called this rule for fear I'd use it against them, and I was very difficult to eliminate once I became server and called "Chickenfeet." There was talk of banning the rule altogether)
Bobbling: Holds and carries aren't allowed, but if bobbling is called, you can "hold" the ball indefinitely by bobbling it in the air.
Catching: If someone cleanly catches the ball before it bounces, whomever deflected it last is out. Usually, there's a "codeword" that has to be said as you catch it, or else you're the one who's out. The server must announce the code word when he calls the catching rule. "Catching on purple!" means you have to say "purple" as you catch the ball.
Alphabet: If the server calls this rule, at any time while the ball is in play a player may initiate "Alphabet" by loudly saying a word that begins with the letter 'A' while simultaneously striking the ball. Whomever plays the ball next must say a word starting with 'B,' and so on. If you play the ball without saying a word that starts with the right letter, you are out. Variations on this rule can require words in a certain category, like "Alphabet Cities" or "Alphabet Food."
If you have less than four players, you can play Two Square, but it's not nearly as good. |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 22:10:33
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Originally posted by Downtown
Sherbet and Sorbet are both frozen desserts, but they're not the same thing. Sorbet is completely non-dairy, while sherbet (or sherbert) is much closer to ice cream, just with less milk and/or more sugar. While many people incorrectly use the two terms interchangeably, it's important to know the distinction because sorbet is appropriate for those who are lactose intolerant, or keep kosher and want something parave, while sherbet would be unacceptable for both. Trust me, I worked in an ice cream store (and please, don't call the Jimmies "sprinkles" or the frappes "milk shakes").
What kind of sherbet do you like?
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thefoxboy 
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 04/30/2007 : 23:02:23
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Downtown
Sherbet and Sorbet are both frozen desserts, but they're not the same thing. Sorbet is completely non-dairy, while sherbet (or sherbert) is much closer to ice cream, just with less milk and/or more sugar. While many people incorrectly use the two terms interchangeably, it's important to know the distinction because sorbet is appropriate for those who are lactose intolerant, or keep kosher and want something parave, while sherbet would be unacceptable for both. Trust me, I worked in an ice cream store (and please, don't call the Jimmies "sprinkles" or the frappes "milk shakes").
What kind of sherbet do you like?
I've always known sherbert as a powder. |
Edited by - thefoxboy on 04/30/2007 23:21:25 |
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 00:14:34
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Rovark
Sheep And Wolf / Tally Ho
Rovark:
This sounds a bit like British Bulldog that we used to play in the early/mid 70s.
My years were the mid-1970s to early 1980s
We also used to play British Bulldogs. I'm only 5'2", but up until 11 or 12 I was bigger than most kids, including the boys. I have been a built like the proverbial brick ****house all my life (I get called a British Bulldog here in Oz). Once I get in motion there's no stopping me, so I never got chosen as the first bulldog for safety reasons! I think this is why I was never any good at netball - stopping dead in my tracks was just toooo hard. I may hold the key to perpetual motion....
We also used to play street cricket and soccer. Those games went on all day, as people came and left - we never really had even numbers on the teams. We also played 'Cowboys and Indians' - but what was nice was that we had no concept of 'good and bad' with this. Some people thought it was cool to be a Cowboy and others to be 'Indians'. We didn't really watch Westerns when we were growing up. It was a hide and seek and 'tag' game with a team goal.
As for sweets (candy, lollies for the Aussies)- my memory is buying them from jars - Wine Gums, Milk Bottles, Lemon Drops (with 'sherbet' inside) and plenty other chewy and sherbety items that I can't name anymore. Pre-packaged highlights were Spangles, Polos, Blackjacks and Fruit Salads - anyone remember the latter? The shop we went to sold all sorts of toffee too, broken from the slabs into uneven chunks - I loved the brittle type. I don't think sweets taste the same anymore. Too much sugar and other crap. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 02:24:23
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Downtown
Sherbet and Sorbet are both frozen desserts, but they're not the same thing. Sorbet is completely non-dairy, while sherbet (or sherbert) is much closer to ice cream, just with less milk and/or more sugar. While many people incorrectly use the two terms interchangeably, it's important to know the distinction because sorbet is appropriate for those who are lactose intolerant, or keep kosher and want something parave, while sherbet would be unacceptable for both. Trust me, I worked in an ice cream store (and please, don't call the Jimmies "sprinkles" or the frappes "milk shakes").
What kind of sherbet do you like?
I guess I should have specified I was only talking about the American definitions. I've never had this powder stuff, or maybe I have and it just had a different name. If so, I probably liked it, based on what fourumites have said about it.
I really don't care for sherbet. Sorbet, either. But like any good New Englander, I love Ice Cream. Did you know that New England eats more ice cream that the rest of the US combined? |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 04:47:38
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Do kids of today still play marbles?
Back in the primary school, in the 70's, marbles was the game most kids played. I remember two versions of marbles, 'Cats-eye' and 'Big Ring'. The best thing I liked about it was the rule that when the bell goes to end playtime or lunchtime it was Grabs. Grabs meant that anyone could grab any marbles off the ground and keep them.  I was a fast little bugger. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 06:01:29
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Downtown
Sherbet and Sorbet are both frozen desserts, but they're not the same thing. Sorbet is completely non-dairy, while sherbet (or sherbert) is much closer to ice cream, just with less milk and/or more sugar. While many people incorrectly use the two terms interchangeably, it's important to know the distinction because sorbet is appropriate for those who are lactose intolerant, or keep kosher and want something parave, while sherbet would be unacceptable for both. Trust me, I worked in an ice cream store (and please, don't call the Jimmies "sprinkles" or the frappes "milk shakes").
What kind of sherbet do you like?
I've always known sherbert as a powder.
Answers.com dictionary says:
Sherbet:
1. also sher�bert (-b�rt') A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin.
2. Chiefly British. A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice.
also sherbert
3. Australian. An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
[Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic �arba, drink, from �ariba, to drink.]
WORD HISTORY Although the word sherbet has been in the English language for several centuries (it was first recorded in 1603), it has not always referred to what one normally thinks of as sherbet. Sherbet came into English from Ottoman Turkish sherbet or Persian sharbat, both going back to Arabic �arba, �drink.� The Turkish and Persian words referred to a beverage of sweetened, diluted fruit juice that was popular in the Middle East and imitated in Europe. In Europe sherbet eventually came to refer to a carbonated drink. Because the original Middle Eastern drink contained fruit and was often cooled with snow, sherbet was applied to a frozen dessert (first recorded in 1891). It is distinguished slightly from sorbet, which can also mean �a fruit-flavored ice served between courses of a meal.� Sorbet (first recorded in English in 1585) goes back through French (sorbet) and then Italian (sorbetto) to the same Turkish sherbet that gave us sherbet.
Merriam-Webster also had:
One entry found for sherbet.
Main Entry: sher�bet
Pronunciation: 'sh&r-b&t
Variant(s): also sher�bert /-b&rt/
Function: noun
Etymology: Turkish & Persian; Turkish serbet, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic sharba drink
1 : a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice
2 : an ice with milk, egg white, or gelatin added
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 06:25:32
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Hmm. Candy. Yummmmm. Candy.
Swizzle Sticks: paper straws filled with flavored powders, mostly fruit flavored, but also cola and coffee.
Bazooka Bubble Gum: with the little cartoon inside it.
Wax bottles: I don't remember what they were called but you bit the top off, drank the fruit flavored syrup and then popped the whole thing in your mouth and chewed the wax.
Boston Baked Beans: Peanuts covered in sugar, flavoring and color to look like baked beans.
Malted Milk Balls: Pre-Whoppers. My aunt and uncle carried these in their store as bulk candy. You could buy a handful and munch all day.
Games. Hmm.
Jacks: I was a great jacks player. I could usually get all the way to sevensies without a problem.
Fox and geese: we played this in freshly fallen snow. We'd make a big wheel shape in the snow, with spokes and a center. The "fox" would have to chase the others (geese). If you stepped outside the path, you were caught. The center of the spokes was safe, but only one person at a time could be there.
Red Rover: Two lines of kids, with arms/hands interlocked. You'd challenge a player from the other side to run across to your line and try to break through.
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 10:33:57
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
Do kids of today still play marbles?
Back in the primary school, in the 70's, marbles was the game most kids played. I remember two versions of marbles, 'Cats-eye' and 'Big Ring'. The best thing I liked about it was the rule that when the bell goes to end playtime or lunchtime it was Grabs. Grabs meant that anyone could grab any marbles off the ground and keep them. I was a fast little bugger.
Marbles - I loved marbles. I had some great ones. I see bags of marbles for sale all the time - so I assume it's still played by kids.
Also 'Conkers'. I was reeeeally good at that. I think it must have been because my dad had some clever technique for cooking them super hard or something (in the website link it says that is cheating, but everyone did it). I was accurate and used to shatter my opponents' conkers all the time. I had a champion conker that got confiscated one day, and I never got it back. It must have been a forty-er or more.
When not cooked hard for playing, they are also really good to eat.
For those of you who don't know about conkers, here's a link
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/conkers.html |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 11:32:59
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That reminds me - is it only here in Israel, or do kids elsewhere play games with apricot seeds? I don't remember playing with them when I was a kid, but then again, we weren't big consumers of apricots.
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 11:40:21
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From the same people who brought you Spin the Bottle comes the next game to scare the parents:
Truth, Dare, Torture, Kiss
A group of girls and boys sit in a circle and take turns in selecting one of the four options.
At a certain age the kiss and torture are considered the same thing. Later on the kiss option is highly desired if the game is played by teenage couples. 
Great fun on camps after the adults have gone to sleep. |
Edited by - Conan The Westy on 05/01/2007 11:43:59 |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 05/01/2007 : 19:55:21
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Originally posted by Shiv
When not cooked hard for playing, they are also really good to eat.
For those of you who don't know about conkers, here's a link
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/conkers.html
Shiv - surely you didn't eat Horse Chestnuts? I always thought Sweet Chestnuts were the edible ones.
Was Woodlands your school, or was that a Google hit? I lived and went to school not far from there. |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 00:40:04
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Originally posted by Chris C
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Originally posted by Shiv
When not cooked hard for playing, they are also really good to eat.
For those of you who don't know about conkers, here's a link
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/conkers.html
Shiv - surely you didn't eat Horse Chestnuts? I always thought Sweet Chestnuts were the edible ones.
Was Woodlands your school, or was that a Google hit? I lived and went to school not far from there.
Na, the Woodlands link was just the best one I found for explaining the game of conkers. I schooled in the NE of England.
As for the edible chestnuts- well, I've just shown my ignorance! I'm not good with botany We used to buy packets of hot chestnuts from street vendors.....I can't remember the cooking of a conker champion coinciding with eating chestnuts....so no, I don't think I ate them.... |
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 01:11:34
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| You know the sherbert I'm hearing described reminds me of Fun Dip. It's flavored powder with a candy stick. You lick the candy stick and put it in the powder. |
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