I call this picture "the 70s". That's me and my mom in the upper left. I don't know who the other couple is, but they are pretty badass. I just emailed my mom to find out. I predict her answer will be "I don't remember". And no, she does not have Alzheimer's. She just can't remember anything. I once watched her cousin thank her for taking her to see The Doors in Hawaii and my mom said, "I've seen The Doors?" Drugs aren't really the excuse, either. I don't think she did that many drugs. This picture must have been taken in 1975.
Oh no! The Campbell's plant is closing! Terrible for those workers. I read a business article about Campbell's experimenting with kicky ethnic flavors in single-serving bags. I hear the death knell sounding. All the old ladies who use the soup as a sauce are dying out. Fun fact: my household was pretty snack-free growing up so sometimes, as a chubby tween, I would eat a can of mushroom soup right out of the can as a snack. No water, no heating, can marks still intact.
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Mmm...cold can of mushroom soup snack sounds better than the mustard sandwich I would snack on.
-skpr
Have you seen the limited edition Andy Warhol Soup cans?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/living/campbell-soup-company-andy-warhol/index.html
I liked liverwurst and mayo or fried egg and mayo with tomato or peanut butter and banana or jelly and cream cheese or peanut butter and honey or louis rich lunch meat assortment (I would try to snag the turkey). all on terrible wheat bread.
Here is my mom's typical cryptic answer. BTW, I was NOT born in the 60s, although my mom may not remember that. I had forgotten about my mom's hatred of all these Russian River towns that I love. She probably lived there at some point. She pretty much lived everywhere, including Mexico with me in a Volkswagen Van:
HOLA, MIJA,
That sure is a SLICE OF the 60's-70's ISN't IT! Well...the picture is certainly familiar to me...but, I keep thinking Tucson...and it couldn't be because you are not the right age. Obviously they are a couple. I don't remember them or how I knew them...so, I couldn't have known them well. It had to be N. Calif. (Goonville-Guerneville) no doubt.
I think it's downtown (not that their is a real town) Goonville or Monte Rio (Gonnerrhe-o is what we called that town). that's about all I know. Love, MOM
Imagine my mom's email in navy blue comic sans to get the real picture, and with this quote permanently set at the bottom:
"When the dust of Mexico settles on your heart,you can find peace in no other land."
those andy warhol soup cans are cool
The people in the photo do have a typical Goonville look to them, dont they?
I could swear that pic was taken in Gonnerrhe-o.
The dude looks remarkably like former Cubs and Giants shortstop Shawon Dunston. Not so typical of Goonville which is 0.7% African-American.
Also...Monte Rio was once home to Genesis P-Orridge!
Your mom is awesome.
-The Neighbor
So many things:
-I think you've just identified the amuse bouche for november. Cold Campbells cream soup served in a tiny can.
-Campbells closing makes me sad for two of my former students. Campbells had a cool program where they would pay for an employee's tuition as long as they worked at the plant for a year post grad. I had two students who were mid-education last semester. This really sucks for them.
-And now I can't remember what the other thing was so I guess I'm done. Maybe your mom's contagious.
I'll back up Rick on the Dunston sighting.
Snack: My brother used to simply combine butter and sugar in a bowl and just go to town on it
Jed
Parent e-mails are the best. My Mom always includes an absurd amount of weird icons in her e-mails. My birthday ones are the best. A whole row of little pixelated birthday cakes, happy faces and animals.
Super sad about the Campbells Plant closing. Especially sad after hearing about that education program they offered to employees.
Blarg.
Jed, your brother was clearly uncivilized. The correct childhood snack is brown sugar & margarine on spongy white bread.
The Repub's hot-air machine's already running with placing the Campbell's closure blame on the Dems for creating CA's regulatory climate. But how does that account for Campbell's building a new factory in Bakersfield for 1600 new jobs? Losing 700 jobs in South Sac surely sucks, but that's a +900 on the CA jobs scorecard for Campbell's.
I love what Clinton said on Daily Show last week: "Ideology already gives you the answer before you check the facts." I just wish a more centrist personality had said it in front of a more general sorta audience; then maybe right-wingers wouldn't reflexively blow it off as B.S. considering the source that they love the villainize.
Isn't it remarkable that in the week after Bill Clinton became a trending celebrity again, Monica Lewinsky's $12mil book deal splashes across the cover of The Enquirer?!?
Just heard a Sinatra song from 1960 in which he sang, "They've got a gang of coffee in Brazil."
The Coffee Song.
gbomb
I am an old hand at the butter/sugar snack. how about peanut butter and chex cereal?
or I was just talking about eating dry ramen with skipper. wait, we were talking about how we used to do it. it was not a plan.
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