I was remembering how small grocery stores used to be..
and how you'd have to get up pretty early on Saturday morning if you wanted a good cut of beef or pork from the butcher. You stood in line, picked your roast or chops or steak, they weighed it and wrapped it in "butcher paper" and tied it with a string, later they would tape it. No styro trays and plastic wrap. You saved the string.
There were two maybe three brands of creamed corn, never more. It was like that with every vegetable. Fresh was seasonal and nowhere near the variety we have now.
Bleach. SOS pads. Ivory snow. Spic and Span. That was pretty much the choice in cleaning supplies.
You didn't buy "sanitary napkins" at the grocer; you had to go to the drugstore and they giftwrapped them for you. You bought nothing of a personal nature at the grocer.
and then there was the bakery. a separate building unto itself... more string and waxed bags.
see? I am old. When did that happen?
There were two maybe three brands of creamed corn, never more. It was like that with every vegetable. Fresh was seasonal and nowhere near the variety we have now.
Bleach. SOS pads. Ivory snow. Spic and Span. That was pretty much the choice in cleaning supplies.
You didn't buy "sanitary napkins" at the grocer; you had to go to the drugstore and they giftwrapped them for you. You bought nothing of a personal nature at the grocer.
and then there was the bakery. a separate building unto itself... more string and waxed bags.
see? I am old. When did that happen?