You Know You Are Old When

[WinterDeere]

My Mother has one like this, you toast one side then flip it around to toast other side.
She uses a pop-up toaster from the 50s now.View attachment 3884643

So the first side is cold, by the time the second side is toasted!

 

[masseyrider]

Before the parents had a toaster Ma made toast on the electric stove putting a slice of bread directly on the burner.
It was an art to toast the bread without burning it.
I think that's where I developed the taste for the bitter dark burnt rings.

 

[Jstpssng]

Before the parents had a toaster Ma made toast on the electric stove putting a slice of bread directly on the burner.
It was an art to toast the bread without burning it.
I think that's where I developed the taste for the bitter dark burnt rings.

That used to be how we made toast on the propane stove while camping.

 

[sixdogs]

As a kid, I could always taste this in the store-bought milk, as well. I remember nearly every spring, telling mom "the milk tastes like grass!" Mom would explain that this happened when the cows switched from winter feed back to grazing, and by the second or third glass your tastes would aclimate to the change, until the first bottles of the following spring.

I'm not sure if my taste buds have dulled, or if farming practices or milk processing has changed so much, but I no longer notice the change-over.

Get some Amish or organic milk that is not-homoginized. Then a glass of big box or grocery store milk and let me know what you think. We drink skim, non- fat milk.

Spoiler alert: do this test outside so when you spit out the factory-farm milk it makes less of a mess.

 

[Jstpssng]

YKYO when you reach your arms out to stretch, hear "SNAP" and your back goes out.

 

[LouNY]

Mine is hearing and feeling all the snap pop and crackle in my neck as I turn my head.

 

[masseyrider]

Mine is hearing and feeling all the snap pop and crackle in my neck as I turn my head.

Don't you miss the good old days when snap, crackle and pop was something your cereal did?
And you heard clear as a bell.

 

[Oaktree]

YKYO when you reach your arms out to stretch, hear "SNAP" and your back goes out.

With me it's knees, but yeah...

 

[BravoXray]

When you meet an old friend for dinner, and spend two hours talking about all the surgeries and procedures you've both had in the 20 years.

 

[Jstpssng]

When you meet an old friend for dinner, and spend two hours talking about all the surgeries and procedures you've both had in the 20 years.

I mention this to my siblings. When my parents ran the greenhouse, a few aunts and uncles would help out durong the busy Memorial Day season. Between customers they would compare notes about what meds the Doctors had them on.

We really have become our parents.