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Chocolate-covered strawberries.

Yes, I know different cereals can turn the milk different colors, but Fruit Brute was LOUD orange, like visible-from-space orange. On one little tangent, while Kellogg's also promoted Pop Tarts, in the late 60's/early 70's they also marketed another toaster pastry called Danish Go-Rounds. I...

Fruit Brute was probably the only cereal in the history of breakfast guaranteed to turn your milk a day-glo shade of orange. Trust me, it was ghastly.

When I was little, anything with marshmallows was king! Lucky Charms ruled- back in the 70's there were only four marsmallows: pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. When they introduced blue diamonds, you thought it was the Second Coming. I also loved the Monster cereals-...

Wow, was it 25 years already? In 1987, the talk show universe centered around Oprah, Sally Jesse Raphael and Phil Donahue, asking sensitive questions to sensitive issues. Then Trash TV had a new Crown Prince named Morton Downey, Jr. His show was originally billed as being educational...

Ah, Nick at Nite!!! Back when Turkey Television was big! When I got to college, I took a course in film making, and my professor, Mickey Siporin, did a number of short films for the show. He even showed me a few animation cels from the opening titles. At one point he even submitted a few...

I'm glad now there are anti-bullying laws being passed and schools are taking a zero-tolerance stance. 30 years ago none of this existed. Back then, bullying was an accepted (if regrettable) fact of life. The prevailing attitude, if you were being picked on, was (a) suffer in silence, or (b)...

I humbly and sincerely apologize to anyone if I took things too far in my previous post. No, the guy (to the best of my knowledge) did not commit suicide, and I hoped one could appreciate the absurdity of trying to jump out a basement window because... YOU CAN'T! (If you did, it would not be a...

That's just it. I know suicide's not a joke, but the last part was. Hopefully he went on to do something productive in society, and MAYBE smarten up a little.

Not to worry. Luckily I was out of earshot of the other customers. But yelling proved to be a powerful deterrent. Why, the very next day, some other kid tried to steal a watch. But his conscience got the better of him. "Don't do it, Lefty! You might get busted, and on top of that, that fuzzygobo...

Shoplifters. 20 years ago I worked at Penney's, and it cheesed me off to no end when someone would come in our store with the intent to rip us off. Actually this weekend marks the 20th anniversary of this little debacle. A gang of punks came in, acted obnoxious, spat on the floor, knocked over...

The Burger King is nothing new. He debuted back in the 70's for BK to try to steal Ronald McDonald's thunder, and he had an equally horrible accomplice called the Duke of Doubt (long since retired, much to everyone's relief, but the nefarious King lives on...) My absolute favorite mascot is...

I know what that's like. A number of years ago I posted about remembering a skit from Season One where Ernie was singing "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake". Daffyfan (I think) insisted that it was sung by the Count, and I swore on a stack of bibles it was Ernie. This was before...

In the early years Oscar had a well-deserved reputation for being mean and nasty. But once in the mid-70's he showed a sign of kindness under his mangy green fur. Maria and a Muppet lady had to go somewhere, and the lady had a little daughter, and Maria decided in her infinite wisdom it would be...

Shepherd's Pie, and Bangers and Mash! :)

jelly beans (but not the spice ones) the ocean at sunrise 1965 Mustang convertible (perfect for a day like today)

I always liked Dick hosting the (fill in the dollar amount) Pyramid, and on Bandstand when they featured a very early Pink Floyd, and Dick doing his utmost to coax a word out of a very stoned Syd Barrett.

I remember when this was on the air. Pryor was doing his best to compete with Cosby at being a congenial kiddie show host, and he wasn't too bad (in between hits at the crack pipe). He played numerous characters, the one that stuck out in my mind was a dreadlocked street musician named Chills.

pepperoni pizza the smell of birthday cake right after you blow out the candles purring kitties

It's that time of year when the Girl Scouts are out selling cookies, and anytime I see their little table set up I can't say no. My absolute favorites are the Samoas. Only 15 in a box, and now boxes are four bucks a throw, but that's a small price to pay for a little Heaven on Earth. (Cheaper...