The Don Rosen Show (Hour 1)

I went to my nephew's high school graduation.

I don't think I've ever been more disappointed

in the human species in my life.

I'm in the stands.

This woman gets on the microphone.

She tried.

She tried so hard.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful day here

with all these graduates.

We're going to ask you in advance to please not applaud

or cheer when your individual child or friend

is called because we have way too many graduates

and it would not be fair to the people

at the end of the alphabet.

We're going to give everybody an opportunity

at the end of the ceremony to give a big simultaneous round

of applause for everyone.

But please, when your individual child or family

member is called, please don't applaud at that time.

OK, thank you in advance for understanding.

OK, here we go.

Let's get started with our first graduate, Aaron Anderson.

Yeah!

Aaron!

Aaron!

Are we the smartest species?

We're top of the food chain.

I so wish while he was yelling that a clamp

would have descended from the darkness of the ceiling,

like one of those claw games, just right above him

and then just clamped onto his ribs

and just pulled him up, a whooping and a hollering, a legs

of flailing, just pulled him up into the darkness.

I don't want him to die.

I just never want to see him again.

I should've known better with a girl like you,

that I would love everything that you do, and I do.

Hey, hey, hey, and I do.

Oh, I never realized what a kiss could be.

This could only happen to me.

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

That when I tell you that I love you, oh,

you're going to say you love me too.

Oh, and when I ask you to be mine, oh,

you're going to say you love me too.

So I should've realized a lot of things before.

If this is love, you've got to give me more.

Give me more, hey, hey, and give me more.

Good morning, it's 609 at WRJN Radio.

hometown radio refreshed a civic media station.

Yes, the rumors are true.

It's Friday.

This means you've got a whole weekend coming up now.

And you know, I hate to be the bearer of bad news,

but it's not going to be a fantastic weekend,

otherwise, it's going to be 76 tomorrow,

but then you've got the clouds and the rain

and the thunderstorms have come with that.

You want it sunshine.

You've got sunshine earlier this week, but it was in the 30s.

So you never have it sunshine of the 70s, I guess,

until July or August.

So for today, let afternoon showers,

highs to your 52 showers, thunderstorms tonight,

lows around 49, cloudy tomorrow with a high near 76,

cloudy showers and thunderstorms for Sunday,

and looks like a high near 61 right now, sunshine.

Beautiful morning, the birds are screaming

for some reason out there, 44 degrees.

And when I ask you to be my.

Hey, the answer in town,

take out the breweries 635 tonight.

They'll have two games over the weekend to play as well.

See if we can get rid of the Bronx bombers,

get them in and out real fast with no wins.

And see if that happens.

We have state fair tickets to give away today three acts

you can choose from Charlie Barron's TLC.

And we also have one other act just lost my mind.

Oh, the brother's eyes born in Sarah Evans.

So you get the choice of any act you want to go see

at the Wisconsin state fair.

I'll come up a little later a little later on this morning.

Coming up in a few minutes, they're in already.

They get up real early in the morning.

They were up at two o'clock to get in here this morning.

Got Jim Buster and Carol G and forte here.

And we're going to talk about a little bit of history

of rescuing the grocery stores and rescuing.

They kind of all sold the same products,

but there were people, you know,

you get the people that I only shop pick and save.

And then you get the I only shop festival while I only shop the pig.

It's all the same food.

You know, it's a carton of milk.

It's eggs and it's bread.

They all have the same lettuce.

They all have the same green peppers.

It doesn't change.

But I only like the milk from pick and save.

The cows there are just a little bit nicer to give that milk.

The people of cows that give the milk a festival,

they have a grumpy attitude and it shows in the milk

when you drink it, it's sour.

No, people like a festival food's great.

I like the deli at festival food.

They have a great deli there.

Pick and save.

We like the, we get the points for the gasoline there.

The pig.

It's historical.

I mean, it's the first supermarket in America ever, bigly wiggly.

So I've got some other supermarkets here,

but we got some ones you're going to talk about.

They say, I don't think A and P's around anymore.

When I grew up, we had the A and P down the block.

We had some local ones like bohacks.

Everybody shopped at bohacks.

We should my mother shopped at food fair that it became key food.

Now all they do is change the name and people don't like key food.

I like that one was food fair.

They changed the sign on the outside of the bill.

I don't like it now because it's food and key food,

but it was food fair.

It was much better.

It's the same aisles with the same food,

just a different sign outside the building.

And I'll be I don't like it like that.

Remember when they used to do the cash registers at the,

now they just scan the food,

but had to be a person if they actually look at the item

and then type in in the cash register,

actually punch in the figures on it.

But the price then moved to the next one.

What a slow clunky system and doing it.

And now we get upset when they're scanning it and then I fast enough.

But all right.

The Department of Transportation announced a new passenger rights rules.

The other days,

President Biden signed him into law.

So now they're official.

You ready?

The airlines must require you must refund you in cash for long delays and cancellations.

None of this discount on a later flight.

They've got to come along with the cash now and pay you.

The Department of Transportation also requiring the airlines

to give cash refunds on luggage.

If your bags are lost and not delivered to you within 12 hours,

that happened here once.

They lost my bags coming back from New York.

And we were all gathered here at the radio station the next day

because we were taking our listeners and our advertisers up to Lambo field

and up pulled a truck.

And he said, Mr. Rosemary, have your luggage.

I'm going to do it now.

I'm going on a bus to Lambo field.

Draft off all this luggage.

If this had been now,

they would have had to pay me cash for having that luggage there late.

But they got away with it.

I'm sorry.

And I let them go.

All right.

Also, the new rules force airlines to refund you for extra service issues

specifically paid for and didn't get like Wi-Fi premium seat selections

and in flight entertainment.

It's the in flight entertainment.

People screaming in the aisles.

I don't know what the in flight entertainment is.

People fighting with the flight attendance.

You can't mention the food anymore because I don't serve you food.

Remember the old days on Midwest Express, you got this nice tray full of

real silverware that gave you shame.

Pay.

Would you like champagne or soda, Mr.

Rosen?

Hmm.

Let me see.

But they do, they remember these don't have your champagne on Midwest Express.

Then an airline bought them out and got rid of all that.

All the good things.

And with the only two seats across a Midwest Express, that was the best airline ever.

And they got rid of it anytime there's something good that you're rid of it.

All right.

You never know where you're going to meet the one in your life.

The soda couple named Hannah and Alec started dating after Hannah ordered some food and

Alec was the Grubhub driver.

Now they're getting married next year.

It was love at first sight.

Who knows?

They fell in love with the Grubhub driver.

All right.

Sometimes you never know.

All right.

This is this is going to be fun.

Who are the biggest animal stars of all time, mental floss.com actually put together

a list of the biggest animal stars.

You ready?

Rintin 10 came at number one, you don't have to ask your parents or grandparents about

this one.

He was a German shepherd who was actually rescued by an American soldier on a battlefield

in France during World War One.

They brought him back to the United States.

He went to Hollywood and made 27 movies.

He died in 1932.

Other dogs were giving that same name, Rintin 10 over the years.

He made a TV series too.

27 movies.

All right.

Buddy.

Buddy was the star of the 1997 basketball movie Air Bud.

He passed away in 1998.

Never met any.

The sequel.

They used other dogs.

Just like them.

Jimmy the Raven.

Now Jimmy the Raven has the distinction of having appeared in two bona fide American classics.

The Wizard of Oz and it's a wonderful life.

I'll tell you where you can see him and it's a wonderful life.

When Uncle Billy was sitting at his desk all upset, the Raven jumps on his shoulder.

That's Jimmy the Raven.

And it was also in, I think he was with the wicked witch seen in the Wizard of Oz, but Jimmy

the Raven.

Two classics.

Wow.

Higgins.

The dog.

He got his big break on Petticoat Junction.

He was the little dog on Petticoat Junction.

He reached the height of his fame as the star of 1974's Benji.

He died soon after, but his daughter took over the role in several sequels.

And the biggest star of all is Crystal the Monkey.

Possibly the biggest workhorse in the animal kingdom.

Crystal got her start in the 1997 movie George of the Jungle and just never stopped.

In fact, she was in Steven Spielberg's 2022 movie, The Fable Mins.

In between, she's done everything from the doctor to the little movies to the ninth

of the museum movies to hang over part two, three, ten to Yuma, Malcolm in the middle and

the big bang theory.

Wow.

I wonder if these animals have to be members sag after they work it enough.

Boy, it's me the Raven.

There was no other Raven that could have used, I guess.

Well, he was good.

I remember him in this wonderful life.

All right, Taylor Swift back in the news again with her new album, Tortured Poets Department.

Remember I told you all the things that was breaking all these giant, you know, records

that was smashing on Spotify and everything else in sales just broke another record also

broke the record of the most vinyl record sold in one week or one day.

They're still selling vinyl, I guess.

The first album to surpass one billion streams on Spotify in one week recently became

the most streamed album in a single day.

By the way, you can catch this podcast on Spotify.

We're not breaking the records, but you can get that you can hear it on Spotify.

Showbiz news Richard Simmons working on his own bio pick, Paulie Shore wanted to make

a movie about Richard Simmons.

Richard Simmons made a crystal clear to Paulie Shore that he's not on board with his project.

He's making his own movie and Owen Wilson reportedly turned down $12 million to start

a movie about OJ Simpson.

He didn't want to do it because the movie suggested that OJ was innocent and he said, I am not

making that movie.

All right, has mad crews had a detonate old explosives that were found at a Utah home

Wednesday morning after evacuating nearby houses.

Now apparently it was ancient dynamite that was passed down from generation to generation.

Is that what the family heirloom was?

Here's a couple of sticks of dynamite.

Make sure your grandchildren get it, okay, because this is going down.

This is some of your great grandpa in the 1700s and we just want to make sure this stays

in the family.

We don't want anything happening to this dynamite and now it's all to over because they took

it away.

Odd but true, a 19 year old woman in Scotland claims she can't get a job because her name

is Taylor Swift, that's her legal name.

You think she would get a job with that name.

She said, it's terrible, it's horrible.

She can't get work.

All right, 618 WRJN, we're going to talk about supermarkets, the history of recene coming

up at just a moment here at WRJN.

We've got to end afternoon showers possible with a high-tier 52 today, showers and thunderstorms

tonight, lows 49, cloudy tomorrow with a high-tier 76, my wife can finally put those plants

out to us, hustling them in the house the other day when it was in the 30s, she was out there

like in a row, but 10 o'clock at night grabbing the plants, cloudy showers and thunderstorms

likely with a high-tier 61 on Sunday right now.

The sun is out, I took a picture of the sunrise this morning over the lake, they never

come out well in the pictures, it's so much better in person.

44 degrees right now to get the yanks in town to take on the brewers, they're at American

Family Field tonight live at WRJN 635.

I don't want to date myself, but I remember them singing this on me on Sullivan's show.

Yeah, that really does date, isn't it?

621 WRJN radio, and my guess is, whoa, we got a nice, hollow sound there.

My guess is, I can hear myself in your microphone, all right, there we go, we'll see if that

works any better.

We got Carol G and 14 here, author, published author, Carol, we'll talk about her adventures

tomorrow at the public library, your book is great, my wife and I read it like a little

bit every night, just love reading it.

Jim Mercier, who didn't write anything, you just haven't had a chance to read his

country.

His memoirs.

Yeah, those guys, these two, Carol and Jim, love the history of her scene, they love

passing it on, and that's what I love about these shows you guys do with the Golden

Rundale.

But it's going to take what two years between shows, huh, at least we're so busy working

on your program.

Wow.

I just can't believe it's going to take that long.

Wow.

All right.

Well, because I love them and my mom used to love it too.

I remember her, even though she wasn't from here, she used to love listening to the history

of her scene.

The last time we were talking about supermarkets, so forth, today you want to talk about

the products in those supermarkets and some of those products don't exist anymore, some

do, some don't, some of change.

And I think the food and drug administration got rid of some of them.

They were probably some that wore in healthy.

And we're going to touch on that.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I still amaze.

A lot of sugar.

Oh, and I'll tell you something.

A lot of people don't know about cereal boxes.

Do you know the characters on the cereal boxes always look down with their eyes.

And that's because when they're on the shelf, they make eye contact with the children.

Next time you go to the supermarket, take a look at the characters, like Tony the Tiger,

his eyes face downward.

We were tricked.

I can't do it.

It's just because they want to make eye contact with the kids and kids generally aren't

that tall.

Isn't that.

Tony was looking at us, is looking at us.

Right.

But yeah, it's just even the little guy on the sugar smacks thing.

He looks down.

The two can.

Remember the two can on fruit loops.

Oh, yeah.

He looks down.

We have a copy of that here, which we'll get into.

Yeah, take a look at the box.

He's eyes.

They don't, it's not.

It's just a little bit.

They look down.

They want to attack with the kid who's going to be screaming, I want, I want, I want.

Give me, give me, give me.

Oh, please, can I get that?

I'll tell you something else that changed over the years when I was a kid, I used to get

Farina.

They're so excited.

We're talking about that too.

That's like cream a weed.

Right.

It's a brand.

Yeah.

But now you get cream a weed.

But I still, my, but my mother used to make, but she used to cook it in a slow cook in

the morning.

And now you just add hot water and nuke it and it's not the same.

I, I still have cred.

I just had cream a week the other day.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we had this old box from years gone by and my wife said, you can you eat that?

It's been open.

I said, well, I'm looking in the box.

I don't see any weevils walking.

I was going to say, did you check?

I did.

I stared at to see if anything was, any, any, any, any pieces of the car we were, was

moving around.

No, they were.

Well, I figured the microwave will kill them anyway.

Yeah.

That's I put it in there.

All right.

So what do we have on tap?

All right.

Next month, as you know, we talked about the receiving grocery stores.

We're going to take it one step further today and talk about some of the products that

we could buy as kids back in the 50s and 60s, us baby boomers.

Some of the products, like Don said, no longer exists.

So we're going to share some of our memories of these products.

And I'm sure you're going to remember all of them, like Carol and I did.

And we're just going to have a lot of fun today.

So we'll just start with the start with some of the products, with first Carol.

We are here again to remember our pleasant memories.

And well, why do we want to do that?

It is such a shared experience when we have done these programs at the Rundell or elsewhere.

I think it's not just that one person sits and handles the info and smiles, but it's

a shared experience for us and we're seen in that era.

So how we began again was, Jim and I teaming up, our very first program was about our grocery

stores.

And here we are reviewing that again in some fashion for Don's program.

Yes, we found out in the 1950s and 60s that were seen here at over 100 neighborhood

grocery stores.

These places were our life.

We went to church, we went to school, and probably almost every day somebody from our family

went to the grocery store.

So we knew the owners and the fellow customers so well.

Now when we think about what did we buy there though.

And lo and behold, Jim and I found, I think we have a fondness for remembering the products

that were in those stores.

As kids we had our favorites, teens, and then of course our moms and dads.

So what we're going to do today is Jim and I have resurrected about maybe a hundred sheets

of paper that are in front of us.

These are copies of what we actually showed for the products at the Rondell.

On the screen we could say, oh, remember fab detergent.

Well Jim and I are using this as a basis of remembering products.

Another thing we found is Jim and I were looking over all these products we remember, the

TV commercials.

Don't you see yourself on a Saturday morning watching cartoons or waiting for the Westerns

and seeing Tony the Tiger, yes, like Don said.

They're good.

And did we ever fall for it, didn't we?

I get a 10-7 a year.

When I used to get up on Saturday, even with day mornings for that matter when I was three

years old, I used to turn on the TV.

And this is before the station signed down the year, but it couldn't tell time.

So I used to get up, grab my cereal, put in a bowl, put in the box with me, a couple

of sleeves of Oreo cookies, you know, and they put them on the table next to the television

in the rec room in the basement and he used to watch the snow on the TV and then the

anticipation.

And then the test pattern came on for 25 minutes and with that, just watching the test

pattern.

And then they would come on and say, you know, channel seven, W A B C begins its broad

day.

All right.

We're the early bird cartoons enough with all this stuff.

I sat here for one hour.

I haven't gotten anything yet.

What a way to start the day.

It box a cereal, Oreo cookies, and let's get going.

Now my stomach hurt.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So part of it is remembering, too, where we were when we had our favorite foods.

Now did you sit at the kitchen table with your brother and sister?

Did you sit in the delivery room?

Did you sit on the floor?

A lot of times as kids, we sat on the floor.

So we are doing several things here with remembering the commercials, where we ate the

stores we bought them at and the products themselves.

All right.

Hold on.

We're going to continue with gym to see her and Carol G and 14 just a moment.

Remembering the products we had back in the 50s and 60s, some of them are still here.

But if you look at the boxes, the characters have changed a little bit.

They morphed.

It's like Mickey Mouse.

The early Mickey Mouse looked like a rodent.

But you look at it today, you know, some products aren't here anymore.

Don't you mind?

But Pancake makes us into your 80 more.

It's not cold.

Pearl.

Yeah.

They changed the name to Pearl.

Anyway, more coming up with Jim and Carol in just a moment, it's 629WRJ and hometown

radio refreshed to civic media station.

We'll check some farm news, get to sports, get to weather.

It's all straight ahead to WRJ and radio.

Love with her.

I was in love with Veronica.

She would babysit us on Saturday nights.

In my head, when I was a little kid, I thought that Veronica was like 25, 30 years old.

I was just talking to my mom the other week.

I found out that when I was 10, Veronica was 13.

So why was she in charge?

All she could do was dial the telephone a little better than I could.

13 when I'm 10, that's just like hiring a slightly bigger child.

They would be like, you're going out of town for the week and you paid a horse to watch

your dog.

Like, all right, here is the number where we'll be and here's where we keep the dog food

and you're a horse.

How do people do that?

People always shush animals.

They go, eh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

They've never spoken.

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And you've got me rocking in a role in rock and rea-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop run.

Went to the dance, looking for a man.

Saw pop-Bop ran.

So I thought I'd take a channel, pop-Bop-Bop ran.

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It's 636, W R J N Radio, hometown radio,

refreshed. My guests, Jimes here in Carole G and Forte,

we're talking about some of the old products you may have

found in the supermarkets in the 50s and 60s and we're

seeing here's a taste of them, no pun intended.

It looks like extra energy, Moscow gives me iron and sunshine vitamin D.

Oh, I love bicycle, let's drink for me.

Hello.

Can you see Ellie? Yes, please make some worries ass.

Chocolate.

What the part of time there was an engineer?

Could you Charlie, was his name we hear?

He had an engineer and he sure had fun.

He's got plenty candy to make his brain run.

Oh, Charlie says, love my gun and 20.

Charlie says, really raise the bell.

Charlie says, love my gun and 20.

Don't know any other candy that I love so well.

Brush your brush your brush your brush your,

here's the new light pan with a brand new flavor.

It's dandy for your teeth.

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsotted.

It's good, it's good like a singer and show.

It's good, it's good like a singer and show.

Cool for a fellow.

A little kid was on that and you look at that man was on the,

I love Lucy's show doing that once.

Remember that little box hat at the end.

In the lobby, supposedly he was calling something your lobby name fill up.

Morris, that's where that comes from.

I feel like why is he yelling that in the lobby?

It's like they used to call for Jim.

Something like that.

All right.

So those are the pros and you know why I was listening to that there.

Chocolate syrup.

We had Bosco.

Bosco.

And we said March.

Coco Mars.

Yeah, was that still had the lion on it?

A lion.

Is that still around?

Oh, no.

I don't think so.

They're, they're both gone.

Really?

I was just Hershey's syrup.

As far as I know, I thought Bosco was still.

See, I don't see it.

We used to use mighty fine chocolate pudding,

I think I was an East Coast type of thing.

Mighty fine.

M-Y-T-F-I-N-E.

Might be fine.

Don't remember that one.

Well done.

Our research is very refined.

But just in case we allude to some product not being available

and someone knows they can get it online,

we will know that we made a mistake.

Yeah, I'm sure there's a country Malaysia that is in the Sudan which is making Coco Mars.

Yeah, I'm right.

I'm probably getting a phone with it.

Well, I hope you get it right.

If they were pump dispensers on it, which is great.

Yeah, and if you were a baby boomer,

you probably recognized all those commercials.

I know we did here, but a lot of them like Don said are gone.

Some of the products, we'll start with a hair tonic.

All you guys out there from the 50s and 60s,

that's what we used.

Brill Cream.

Little dab will do you.

He played that jingle.

And it was also, I'll remember Vitalis Cookey was always calling his hair.

Yes, cookie.

He was like me.

I'm 7 Sunsetsripe, let me your comb.

I saw that about that.

That's right.

That was a hit song by Connistie, and Jan.

It's all related to products that will start in the commercial.

It burns cookie.

Yep.

Wild root hair tonic.

Fearless fostick was the guy who was.

Are they still around?

You know, I don't know.

I didn't check on that one.

Butch wax.

Back then, a lot of guys had butch haircuts.

My brother had butch wax.

It was when you had a crew cut and the front of your hair.

Pulled it up.

Right.

The very front used the butch wax to make the hair stand out.

Stand up.

Now, I never did exactly curly hair on my life.

And by the way, for all the people out there who made fun of my curly hair in school.

You still have it.

I hope your shiny heads really made fun of me.

Well, and for us gals, especially as teens, to be a brick girl.

That was on the back of every magazine.

Probably some TV shows.

But we had to pay attention to our hair.

Because we especially had two styles in the 50s and 60s.

The bubble and the flip.

And so everything was needed to make that the styles work.

Prale.

Now, spend a fortune on TV watching the green pearl drop at the end.

We watched it.

We watched it.

We had Tony home perms.

We had extra.

Please back up.

Tony home perms.

I remember those.

Sure.

Tony home perms.

We gals had to work hard.

Yeah.

And then another personal care.

Oh, yes.

Toothpaste.

And Don played the jingle for Ipanna.

Remember Bucky Beaver?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Take that.

Of course, that was also gleam and stripe.

Remember stripe.

Stripe, yeah.

I never understood how when you squeezed the toothpaste, the stripe came out.

Yeah.

So straight.

And why was it all jumbled up in the tube?

They always came out straight.

Now, that was really something to wonder about.

It was the eighth wonder of the world.

That's right.

That was really something.

How did they do that?

We still don't know to this day.

Don't know.

It's a victory.

The inventor took it with him to his grave.

Without an extra dollar.

Yeah.

I will remember now.

Now, pepsident, we all know that the yellow one.

And they use Bob Hope, 31 cents a tube on our material here.

American Dance stand was probably helping all of us teens to see these products.

Now, my favorite is the cereal grouping.

And like Don said, they were all.

A lot of them had the word sugar in them.

Do an example.

Post sugar crisp.

Okay.

They all emphasize sugar.

The mascot there was a bear.

You'd probably see this advertised on a Saturday morning cartoons or the early morning westerns.

Now, I think they just called it what?

Super crisp or something.

Well, you know, sugar frosted flakes was the name of the cereal, the Tony of Tiger.

They get the word sugar off there.

That's right.

The sugar has gone now.

Right.

Just became frosted flakes.

They said, well, we'll keep the sugar.

But maybe if we don't tell them, they will hide it.

They won't know what the thing will pull the sugar over their eyes.

It's 50 percent, you know, equal.

I think we were a little manipulated.

Just slightly.

Sugar smacks.

Sugar smacks.

Again, they took the word sugar out now.

How come they never bothered us back then?

I don't know.

Why did my mother care that I was shoving sugar down my throat every day?

We didn't have that great research, but you know what?

We were out biking, climbing trees, running.

We didn't have to acclaim it with gaining weight because we were so physically active.

I want to know why my mother fed me sugar every morning for breakfast.

And I thought I had a good mother.

Now all of a sudden this morning I'm finding out.

Well, this cereal sugar smacks you could send for by sending in box tops,

a large atomic submarine just by sending in the box tops.

Now is the atomic age?

I'm going to tell you this story real quick.

Quicker oats comes in the cylindrical.

Remember the old cylindrical box?

Oh, it's still it.

So back in there was this thing that when you got a new house,

you brought a cereal or something with you from the old house to the new house.

And that was supposed to bring good luck or whatever.

So when we moved from the Bronx, we had this cereal box,

quaker oats cylindrical, moved out to Long Island,

and my mother brought it with us.

And that was 1955.

Now she probably bought it the year before when we were in the Bronx.

1955 in, I guess it was 2000, maybe 2012.

We had the box in the house in her apartment here in Racine,

which he moved to Racine.

And I said, I wonder if that offer on the back for a poor piece set of China

for $1.99 still exists.

So I contacted the people of quaker oats.

I said, I have a box here.

It's in mint condition sealed.

So got the cereal in it probably with weevils in it and everything.

But I have the, and it says you run the back for $1.99.

If I, you know, I can get a set of China four piece set.

And they said to me, you send us the coupon on the box.

We'll send you a four-play set of China for $1.99.

No, kidding.

My goodness.

And said we stand by that is no expiration date on it forever.

Well, I hope everybody else with a 10 year old cereal box is listening now.

And then I brother when he unpacked it broke the box open.

Oh.

But still, we were trying to save it.

You know, remember I told the store about the dynamite that was handed down from generation.

This was the family heirloom, the box of quaker oats with the weevils inside.

Oh, yeah.

Here's another one here, Don.

Kellogg's sugar corn pops.

Now, of course, they cut out the word sugar.

Like you said, the sugar is still there.

But we just don't read about it on the box anymore.

I just never bothered us to see all that sugar.

No, we were unaware.

But it wasn't everything.

We were on it.

Yes.

It still is.

It is.

Exactly.

They just took the word off the box.

Ignorance is bliss.

Yep.

Well, then we had some warm cereals.

And you mentioned Farina.

You grew up on Farina.

Farina.

Well, I did.

Yes.

And we had maple.

That was an instant oat cereal.

I grew up on cream of wheat.

Now, my mother tried so hard, but cooking was not her thing.

And so I grew up on cream of wheat with lumps.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I remember the lumps.

I like the lumps.

I could not put another lump of cream of wheat in my mouth.

I love the lumps.

Never again.

I love lumpy potatoes, and I love lumpy cream of wheat.

Well, I lumpy Farina.

Yeah, they used to get little clumps in here.

Yeah.

They surely did.

Now today it was sticking my throat.

I can tell you that.

Oh, no.

I love the lumpy food.

Well, along with sugar and everything, cookies.

Well, we all love cookies.

But Salerno was a big brand name.

And they're standard butter cookies.

We have a picture of that.

They began in 1933, Salerno.

So we had that standard.

What kid didn't like a little pack of animal crackers?

With a little string around it.

Love that.

Sure.

I remember animal crackers.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah.

And then a family favorite for ours.

I don't think Jim's family had this.

But Archway, the Winmo cookies.

Archway cookies.

Yeah, they still have them.

Yes.

And they still have Winmo cookies.

And that's exactly what that was one of our favorites.

But Oreos have been around forever.

I just downed an entire three sleeves of Oreos this past week.

The lemon Oreos.

Oh, they're delicious.

I kind of got it.

You know what?

Because I like lemon, the Girl Scout cookies.

And those Girl Scouts cut you off in March 30.

Bam!

No more cookies for you.

And not going to wait for my dealer on the street in a year from now.

You know, just when you're thinking of them.

So you have to substitute something.

Yes.

I found the lemon in the Oreo cookies.

Not as good as the Girl Scout cookies that were near it.

And of course, we talked about Bosco.

That was always advertised in Saturday morning.

Of course, the cartoons and the Westerns.

And like Don mentioned, we talked about, or we mentioned Cocoa Marsh, the lion mascot.

It was also Nestle's Quick.

And that was always advertised by Roy Rogers.

Okay.

Hold it, drink.

You had to hold it right there.

Yep.

I think we got to come back to it more about the youth.

Great.

The unsign filled.

George Costanza's pass code to get into his ATM was Bosco.

Oh!

And Kramer had to go figure it.

He said, well, let's see.

You're a portly man.

You like your sweets.

Hmm.

I'm sure you like chocolate too.

And growing up, you probably enjoyed your Bosco syrup.

So I would guess your code word is Bosco.

I'm sure you like it.

I'm sure you like it.

Sherry Sherry Baby Sherry Sherry Baby Sherry.

It's $6.50 wanted WRTN radio.

All town radio repressed to Civic Media Station.

I'm Carol G. and Forte here.

And Jim Bessier.

We're talking about some of the product you may have grown up with.

Some are still here.

Some have been amended.

They say they don't sound as dangerous as they were back then.

I was, you know, it's amazing how many cereals had the name sugar on them.

I didn't realize it to you guys.

There are many of sugar meth smacks.

And then you got the sugar frosted flakes, sugar cornpoms.

They'll have a name sugar on them.

Yeah.

And all of a sudden overnight, they changed their names.

Go on.

Somebody said, hey, wait a second here.

Sugar's hurting these kids.

Let's do this.

Let's keep the sugar in the cereal.

But not tell them about it.

And we'll make you ingredients on the box.

So tiny.

They'll need them.

They'll need the Mount Palomar telescope to go read the ingredients.

And darn it.

We got to start putting calories on the box.

Oh, oh.

No, no.

And we got to put warnings.

This may not be good for you.

Oh, what's this coming to this world?

You know, and when you, you see old TV shows today with everybody smoking cigarettes on them.

Dick Van Dyke smoking every time the more lights up a cigarette.

Yeah.

And you don't see that anymore on TV.

No, I think they're allowed to smoke on TV anymore.

But you see all these people smoking in.

The old ads for Kent cigarettes on the dick band.

He's holding a cigarette advertising Kent.

We think back, whoa, whoa, we think it.

I know.

I mean, why don't you just come out and say, hey, here's a jar of cancer.

Why don't you just drink this tonight instead of smoking?

Yeah.

All right.

Continue with the products.

All right.

Okay.

Ice cream.

Oh, my goodness.

Not as many choices as we have today, but seal test.

That was a fail.

Oh, yes.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

No.

Ice cream, you scream.

We all scream for ice cream.

Now, Lady Borden.

Lady Borden was a cow.

Yes, I remember that.

And my husband got to meet Lady Borden at Washington Park.

There was a real Lady Borden?

He thought so.

He thought so.

One of his, one of his youthful memories.

I met her once too on a blind date.

Dixie cups were everywhere.

They still have those.

Yeah.

Burt Day parties.

Now, the big thing is those red solo cups.

I never heard of that.

Oh, yes, you have the red solo cups.

Yeah.

The red plastic cups.

Yeah.

Red solo cups.

Yeah.

Okay.

No.

You like the way Jim says like everyone.

Oh, yes, you have.

My favorite.

I think a lot of people's favorite are candy bars that you can't buy anymore.

Remember, Oh Henry?

Oh Henry can't buy anymore?

They don't make that anymore?

I don't think so.

But they were all five cents.

That was similar to a baby Ruth, I believe.

But yeah, a lot of these.

By the way, baby Ruth was not named after Babe Ruth.

Right.

It was named after the president's daughter at the time.

Who's baby Ruth?

A lot of people don't know that.

And oh Henry on Seinfeld, the Oh Henry candy bar.

Cramer is suing this woman.

And Jackie Childs finds out that she is the heir to the Oh Henry candy bar company.

So he said, when we get to court, it's going to be like, you've taken candy from a baby.

That's Seinfeld.

Great writing.

Who remembers chunky, chunky candy bar.

Arnold Stang was the spokesperson.

Yes, Arnold Stang.

Yeah.

It's a big piece of chunky, chunky chocolate, raisins and nuts and milk chocolate.

See what I am amazed though on how we love these commercials and how they worked.

And now you don't remember them.

And now you watch TV.

It's all drugs they selling.

Yeah.

That's your doctor about it.

Yeah.

Tell your doctor.

Why should I have to tell my doctor?

He should know this stuff.

Yeah.

Mr. Rosen has nothing wrong with it.

I can't figure out what's going on with you.

Have you tried this drug?

Oh really?

What's a dosage?

Well, they didn't mention the dosage on TV.

Maybe you should...

Maybe...

And why should I tell the doctor?

I know.

Who remembers the Hollywood candy bar?

Again, five cents.

And of course, somebody mentioned a Clark bar.

They advertise it as for quick energy.

You know who...

You know who the spokesperson was?

That was a camel.

A camel.

I want a clock bar.

Oh.

I want a clock bar.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

We got a couple here that were made in Milwaukee, the Denver Sandwich and the Chicken Dinner.

Made by the Sparey Candy Company of Milwaukee.

I remember them very well.

That was a chicken dinner.

Was a candy bar.

That was a candy bar.

Didn't taste like a dinner.

Yeah.

It didn't taste like chicken dinner.

No.

I don't know.

What a name for chocolate.

It doesn't go together.

Yeah.

And my favorite back then was the bun candy bar.

I saw this at a...

Where did I see it at a hardware store?

You could still buy bun candy bars.

They were there.

Very, very good.

Remember a big time bar?

You get a lot of bang for your buck on that one.

It was a huge candy bar.

And still only five cents.

And of course, there was one called milk shake.

Oh, I remember the milk shake.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's molten milk, nougat caramel.