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Heads or Tails category this week: “SHAKE”
Well, there are two things that came to my mind when I read the theme for this week. A memory of my childhood. Well, actually BOTH of the items I thought of came from my youth. When I was a youngster of 5 or 6, each Saturday after my dad got home from work, I, my brother, my sister and my mother were are cleaned up nice for a night out for dinner. It wasn’t anything fancy, no sit down type restaurant; those kind were unaffordable by my parents’ one worker income! But,none the less, we were happy to be able to go out to eat. It was in Lincoln, Nebraska, right down town on the main street. That was “O” street. It still IS considered main street, tho it’s now part of ‘old town’ Lincoln. The place was a drive-up type where you sit in the car and eat, or order and take it home. We were all gussied up to sit in the car! LOL Still, I remember the fun time had by us all. The drive up was called “The Mug”. Outside the building, even from the distance of about a mile or so, driving along and waiting for traffic lights to change green, on the horizon, I could see peeking through the front seat [back in those days the front seat was a 'whole seat' with the backrest flipping down for the ones who rode along in the back seat could get into the car...there was a slim gap between dad's backrest and mom's [the passenger] —anyway, I could peek through there and see this huge, monstrous, colossal, giant chocolate sculpture –a billboard like, and it was a chocolate Milk Shake…in the “Mug”. They were thick, icy cold, sweet, and oh such a Saturday night time treat for us all. Oh we all ordered cheeseburgers with the shakes.
Then, a bit older but still a child of probably pre teen, I remember a commercial of a new product that was sweeping the nation. It was called….Shake N Bake! Not only was the commercial insipid, but so was the product! Of course my mom, who loved to cook by the way, wanted to try it. You know, something new. Something that would make her meal not so mundane for her loved ones. She convinced dad to buy the two kinds….the pork, and the chicken. Now my mother’s fried chicken was out of this world ‘southern fried’. And her fried pork chops were always good too. [I, tho, really liked the potatoes and the gravy from the pan drippings most!] Anyway, we helped or watched her prepare the new stuff. It smelled good while cooking…we all sat down at the table [yes, back then, if you didn't eat with the parents at 'dinner time' you were out of luck! You missed your chance! We ALL sat at the table and dined together!] So, we sat down -dad was always first to get his share and then he’d pass it to us kids…we each got a chop or a piece of chicken…and all the other fixin’s —ready, eat! Ewwwwwwww. Nasty!!! Needless to say, none of us got a chance to say to everyone “No daddy, it’s Shake n Bake, and I he’pt”!! It never came in our house again. Mom’s from scratch cookin’ was soooo much better.
photo above IS Lincoln Nebraska and it’s main street “O” Street. Circa 1940′s.
courtesy of internet photo search.
~…end Heads or Tails
[comment here if you'd like to skip my Google Browser Beta below]
Sunday afternoon, after reading about the new browser for anyone to download and install, I thought I’d give it a try. Well, I did! And I disliked it from the get-go. Let me explain….
- With Firefox you have so many options and so many ad-on features that I did NOT find with Google Chrome. And the ONE THING that I really ‘need’ while browsing is the Ad Block! While working with the new browser I opened some of my bookmarks that were automatically imported to Google’s new browser that was an option as installing. I began clicking on those bookmarks of mine and so many ads and animations began to appear! No way! So, tho it seems pretty well organized, I would prefer my Firefox. That, to me, is the most user friendly browser around. Nope…Google Chrome Browser, while the features are somewhat innovative and less cluttered, there just aren’t my favorite features available while I surf the net. It’ll continue to be Firefox usage for me. I’ll wait a while and then test drive the new browser again to see if there are any features that make more sense in the future. Also, Google’s new browser, as with Google Earth, and many more exe files from Google’s downloads, it seems that privacy is not an issue with those that program their new files for the computer and internet users. And, by the way, it is STILL in Beta, so there WILL be a lot of tweaking before it’s all set up with the best features possible, I suppose.
