I can't be the only person whose mind leapt straight into the gutter at the comparison of the twinkies' iceblock (NZ!) licking styles.
it turns out that Lois's mum thinks red food colouring is bad for you. Um, ok. Can anyone confirm this?
At first I thought this was consistent because it says in another book that her mum is a dietitian, but reading further it was probably a coincidence. Also, the "no red colouring" thing makes me think of Becca in Daddy Day Care.
Sorry Jess. There will come a time when every guy you look at dies. Sorry, no. Only the gorgeous ones, who you fall in love with & who fall in love with you & who you are destined to be with forever. Ok yeah, so all of them.
I love you.
a weird subplot about Amy having found a random bird in her backyard the week before. She & her parents stuffed it in a cage & have been trying to feed it seeds & now the she seems sick.
I was so sure that this was going to be like those plots in the Babysitters Club where they have a mirroring subplot with the kids that teaches the Club members the error of their ways. You dropped the ball there, ghostie.
It turns out to be Lois, who ran away from her house in the rain to join the sleepover.
Wait, that must have been some sudden rain if they were planning on having a cookout that night. I mean, that shit happens all the time in Auckland (quote from Way of the Jafa: Auckland is famous for its cancerously sunny spells, chilling wind gusts and horizontal rain - often all in the same day), but in Sweet Valley they probably have urgent news reports whenever the weather shows signs of being anything other than perfect and sunny. "WARNING! WARNING! THERE WILL BE RAIN TOMORROW! CANCEL ALL POOL PARTIES, BEACH PARTIES AND PICNICS AT SECCA LAKE!!!!"
Lois' mother's concern reflects the age of the ghostie?
Once upon a time red food dye was really bad for you - have no idea what they put in it, but in my very early childhood (1979 - early 80s in both USA and Australia) you could only get dark purply-red lollies/ candies. Then suddenly in about '85, when I suppose they found a new recipe, there were all these advertisements for real scarlet coloured foods: the theme was kind of 'they probably won't kill you now, kids!' This made a fairly big impression on me at the age of 5 or 6, with a vogue for 'strawberry' and 'cherry' flavoured food-type substances within my immediate social set. Some mothers wouldn't let you eat them, although by the time my brother was born ('87) it wasn't a big issue.
I remember it being a big issue in the early 90s. We weren't allowed red dye because we'd go fucking hyper on it. Like off the walls crazy. That's why most kids I know weren't allowed it, not because of health. Because our parents didn't want to deal with us more than any other reason.
it turns out that Lois's mum thinks red food colouring is bad for you. Um, ok. Can anyone confirm this?
At first I thought this was consistent because it says in another book that her mum is a dietitian, but reading further it was probably a coincidence. Also, the "no red colouring" thing makes me think of Becca in Daddy Day Care.
Sorry Jess. There will come a time when every guy you look at dies. Sorry, no. Only the gorgeous ones, who you fall in love with & who fall in love with you & who you are destined to be with forever. Ok yeah, so all of them.
I love you.
a weird subplot about Amy having found a random bird in her backyard the week before. She & her parents stuffed it in a cage & have been trying to feed it seeds & now the she seems sick.
I was so sure that this was going to be like those plots in the Babysitters Club where they have a mirroring subplot with the kids that teaches the Club members the error of their ways. You dropped the ball there, ghostie.
It turns out to be Lois, who ran away from her house in the rain to join the sleepover.
Wait, that must have been some sudden rain if they were planning on having a cookout that night. I mean, that shit happens all the time in Auckland (quote from Way of the Jafa: Auckland is famous for its cancerously sunny spells, chilling wind gusts and horizontal rain - often all in the same day), but in Sweet Valley they probably have urgent news reports whenever the weather shows signs of being anything other than perfect and sunny. "WARNING! WARNING! THERE WILL BE RAIN TOMORROW! CANCEL ALL POOL PARTIES, BEACH PARTIES AND PICNICS AT SECCA LAKE!!!!"
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Once upon a time red food dye was really bad for you - have no idea what they put in it, but in my very early childhood (1979 - early 80s in both USA and Australia) you could only get dark purply-red lollies/ candies. Then suddenly in about '85, when I suppose they found a new recipe, there were all these advertisements for real scarlet coloured foods: the theme was kind of 'they probably won't kill you now, kids!' This made a fairly big impression on me at the age of 5 or 6, with a vogue for 'strawberry' and 'cherry' flavoured food-type substances within my immediate social set. Some mothers wouldn't let you eat them, although by the time my brother was born ('87) it wasn't a big issue.
Apologies for over-analysis of SVK.
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