Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    We didn't have Table Top Pies, but fried pies (or turnovers, or pasties, or whatever your region called them) were always a lunchbox staple. In the South, fried fruit pies (particularly peach pies) were called "crab lanterns", though that's an old, old term, and I have no idea where it comes from.
  2. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Moon Pies. Chocolate. On a side note...my wife and I were sitting by the fire last weekend, and she suggested we make s'mores. Which we did. I tried explaining that a s'more was basically just a homemade Moon Pie on a stick. She didn't appreciate the...
  3. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    The filling should be marshmallow. If you think it might have been anything else, you'll want to get a shot.
  4. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    I first noticed Nutella being everywhere when I traveled to the Middle East. They eat that stuff on everything. You can buy an 11-lb tub at the airport in Doha. Who buys that much at one time...at the airport...heading out on an international flight? Where would you put it?
  5. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    You can still find Nehi occasionally around here, but they're pretty rare. It is now owned by Dr. Pepper/Snapple, but I'm not sure if they bought the whole works or just the name and now market something with that name. They're still fruit sodas though. Fanta was the fruit soda competitor of...
  7. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    How did my grandparents live through the Depression? The same way they lived before it...sharecropping tobacco and living in a two-room Cracker shack. After WWII they moved to the city so my grandfather could work in the shipyard and he eventually got a factory job in the 1950s.
  8. HudsonHawk

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    I can walk into any convenience store, gas station or supermarket and find a shelf full of RC. Many vending machines have it as well. I'm surprised at the lack of availability in some parts.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Name your favorite films based on true stories.

    I recently got to visit the actual bridge that is the inspiration for the novel and movie. Like everything else in southeast Asia these days, it's overrun with Japanese tourists taking selfies. But also nearby is the "Death Railway" Museum and Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, which is quite...
  10. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    You'll also get people living in Jacob Riis-ian tenement squalor. You'll have 11 people living in a 1,100 sf apartment, but they won't have to walk very far to buy bread.
  11. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    The problem with challenging the reserve clause was that professional baseball was unlike any other form of entertainment out there. While each club was its own entity, it couldn't operate completely independently of the other clubs. Was each franchise an independent corporation or were they...
  13. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    My refrigerator door is dedicated to mustard. I have probably 40 different jars of it any time, though it's out of love of mustard, not out of fear of running out. Though that would unsettling. My wife thinks I have a problem.
  14. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Oh I'm sure there's a deep rooted psychological reason for this, most likely born from some particularly embarrassing moment. We all have those. But when you have bedrooms filled floor to ceiling with TP, you have a problem.
  15. HudsonHawk

    Bob Dylan Assessment

    Dylan is on the Mt. Rushmore of pop/rock era songwriters, along with Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt.
  16. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    As Ty Cobb said in 1925: "The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it". Professional baseball (and football for that matter) has always been only about money. Money is the only reason it was created in the first place.
  17. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    Football has obviously done a lot more than baseball in terms of marketing the non-game aspects to casual fans. The hype that is the Super Bowl, fantasy football, all the "events" associated with the game...they've convinced people that you don't have to care about the teams or even the game to...
  19. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    Hmmm..how high is the crown? Is that a 2 3/8 inch or 2 1/2 inch brim? And the ribbon is way off...
  20. HudsonHawk

    What's For Breakfast...

    Pancakes. I'd post a picture, but I ate them. I'm still finishing up the pot of coffee, goofing around on the FL, trying to get motivated to go fix the fence.
  21. HudsonHawk

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I have a friend who is obsessive about buying toilet paper. Every time she goes shopping she buys like a pack of like 24. She has probably at least 1,000 rolls on hand at all times. Now I'm as cognizant as the next guy about the need for TP, and certainly have a healthy "fear" about not...
  22. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Kantner was on record as being pretty anti drug, at least most of them. I believe he dabbled in, and may have endorsed psychedelic drug use, but disdained things like heroin, cocaine, and especially alcohol, which considered the worst of the lot. And while 74 is not particularly old these...
  23. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    This is a big part of it. I remember a few years ago when the Cubs got busted for scalping their own tickets. It's not that bad everywhere though, at least not yet, but certainly is in high dollar markets such as NY, BOS and CHI. And to FF's point about concerts...a few years ago my wife and...

Latest posts

Members online

... and 10 more.
Total: 2,332 (members: 60, guests: 2,272)

Forum statistics

Threads
111,250
Messages
3,117,848
Members
55,545
Latest member
dk8594
Top