gah! this just in....

Love love love cleverness.  Love a good pun.  Love cool tape.  From Copernicus Toys.  Their slogan:  This tape goes to 11.  *grin*

 

Thank you for the red apple searches.  My mission is over.  The story:  our original cookie jar is long gone, but when my parents moved into their new home a few years back I sent Mom a new one.  Since she hasn't been using it (doesn't match her color scheme) she is giving it back to me!  Kinda cool that my new apple cookie jar is coming from her. We reminisced today about why she had the first one.....she thinks it was because we had a thing for big red apples.  Me and her.  My first word was apple.  We would go to the Applebaum's grocery store and I would point to the big apple sign with a smiley face on it and call out "apple".  I can still picture that place, and that sign. We would later refer to it as the Big Apple.  Funny that I grew up in the Minneapple and now live near NYC.  I couldn't find a photo of the old sign...but learned alot of cool history about the grocery store chain that evolved into Rainbow Foods, where my parents shop today!

 

One more kitchen memory:  we had wallpaper with stripes of vintage-looking-fruit on it.  I even tried to lick it after seeing Willy Wonka.  The snosberries didn't taste like snosberries.  *cracks self up*

 

What is your childhood kitchen memory?  Have you reinacted anything from it in your own home?

Comments

[Brian Kasstle]

My mom's cool yellow and chrome kitchen table and our original fiestaware plates, I think I remember she sold them at a garage sale... :-( Thanks for bringing back these memories!!!

[Kim Mailhot]

We had these crazy modern bright red, white and orange curtains, very geometric, and all the doors on our white cabinets were painted red. Kind of Scandanavian, I think. We also had one of the first red fridges - my dad worked for Westinghouse at the time and got the floor model that had a big ding on the side of it. But it was red !!!
Crazy memories...many time has flown...

[michelle ward]

Thanks Brian and Kim for sharing your memories. Chrome edged tables were in many kitchens, ditto with Fiesta....dang, to have those back! A red fridge? Gah!

[sherry crocker]

Speckled countertops with chrome edges and baking canisters in copper with black enamel lids. Lucy and Ricky had the same set when they went to the country.
And the butt ugly kitchen utensil curtains that looked like cartoon water colors: wooden sppon, rolling pin and old time coffee grinder that looked like the crank base of a victrola.
good times.

[Carrie]

"What's a snosberry?"

Kitchen memory? Hmm, probably the best one (that doesn't have to do with eating) is helping my Dad paint the insides of the cabinet that he built between the family room and kitchen. Williamsburg blue on the outside, Williamsburg red on the inside! Now I mostly clutter it up with my stuff...

Oh and Fiesta... my mom collects Fiesta... so cool!

I've never heard "Minneapple" before, that's hilarious :D

[Carrie]

P.S. Spinal Tape! ROFL! I need to get some...

[forcryeye]

APPLEBAUMS! I haven't heard that in a while! Remember Tom Thumb? Oh, I miss MN sometimes! I have been looking for a coffee mug that says, "Irene" on it and a Smurf Happy Birthday mug. I of course have been looking for quite a few things since the fire, but...the Irene mug was my Grammy's that she used...and the smurf one was from my 12th birthday from a friend who has passed, and it became the special mug for the birthday child for the day in my house.

[cindi]

i remember we had green appliances and it was a very small kitchen. (still is) my mom was an incredible seamstress and used to make the kitchen curtains. there are 6 windows that ran from the front to the side. to this day my 2 sisters, 1 brother and i still can't get over the fact that growing up we were all in that very small kitchen together and it didn't seem as small as it does now. : )

[Lisa Hoffman]

LOVE that "Spinal TAPE"....!!!
hilarious.

I look around and can't see a lot from my childhood. On the other hand, the fabulous "Vera" brand is being resurrected. The timing is perfect. I'm going to wear Vera tunics, huge hoop earrings and evoke the spirit of my crazy and creative Aunt Lenni- minus the cigarettes and cocktails. Here's to 60's style, Baby.....

[Chris]

That tape is a riot.
I didn't know you grew up in Minneapolis! I have three friends who live there. But I've never been...

[inge]

Hello Michelle,

really fun tape ! When I have to send an envelop off with stuff in , I always put a piece of tape on the edges to secure it. Mine is with an quote : " a pound of feathers won't fly if there's no bird in it"...but I think the postman would have big eyes with this kind of tape on my envelopes !
I often get a comment on the "nice" envelopes from the people at the postoffice. I think decorated envelopes gives them something special in the daily routine :)

About kitchen memories : ours had big blue geometrical shapes on the wallpaper and yes a table with chrome feet...

My father died when I was 19 months old and when my mom made a cake she did this in the ceramic bowl my father always did.
Even if I have not really known him, this bowl has always had something special for me and it's still in the family although it's not used for cakedough anymore... It has a real odd shape on the bottom so it was difficult to get all the dough out of it,BUT this meant my sister and I could lick out the bottom of the bowl with our fingers... a tradition that I kept with my children very long ... nothing better than getting out every bit of dough out of the bowl with your fingers and lick them off...
I think I like the dough of cake as much as the cake itself to eat !

greetings from belgium
Inge

[jean]

kitchen memory...red rooster wallpaper...my mom used to hang red delicious apples on the christmas tree...must be a minnesota thing...love your cookie jar