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Old 06-13-2022, 01:00 PM   #46
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ADDED: What was that chocolate candy about the size of a quarter that had about 20 or so pieces stacked into a round tube and sold in theaters? This would be the late 1950s/early 1960s. I think some nostalgia company acquired the name, and that this former film chocolate can still be bought today over the internet.
I remember those vaguely. They looked like they'd been formed by squirting out a dab of very liquid chocolate onto a flat surface.
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Old 06-13-2022, 02:55 PM   #47
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Necco chocolate wafers?
I just saw some images and, no, that wasn't it.

The ones I remember had some kind of ruffle design on the top and they were milk chocolate through and through.
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Old 06-13-2022, 03:42 PM   #48
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True love is very expensive. A wife is the most expensive thing a man can ever have.
My husband wouldn't have achieved his position in life and his career if I had not been his partner. Together, we created the life we share. I didn't cost him, I came alongside and completed him. We are a team. (That sounds ridiculous but you get my meaning)

No dollar amount can repay my part in the last 45+ years. I've worked hard and more than full time at home.

Carry on.
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Old 06-13-2022, 03:44 PM   #49
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Necco chocolate wafers?
Horrible things. I remember dividing them up with my sister and some friends.
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I remember those vaguely. They looked like they'd been formed by squirting out a dab of very liquid chocolate onto a flat surface.
That sounds like it. If I could see an image, I would know.
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My husband wouldn't have achieved his position in life and his career if I had not been his partner. Together, we created the life we share. I didn't cost him, I came alongside and completed him. We are a team. (That sounds ridiculous but you get my meaning)

No dollar amount can repay my part in the last 45+ years. I've worked hard and more than full time at home.

Carry on.
It's great that you've been partners.

I've been with my wife for 16 years and I would not change any of it.
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Old 06-13-2022, 06:13 PM   #52
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My husband wouldn't have achieved his position in life and his career if I had not been his partner. Together, we created the life we share. I didn't cost him, I came alongside and completed him. We are a team. (That sounds ridiculous but you get my meaning)

No dollar amount can repay my part in the last 45+ years. I've worked hard and more than full time at home.

Carry on.


I've been married for 29 years and in that time, the most I've ever contributed to our household income is 25%, and that much only in the last couple of years. So for my wife, a husband has been by far the most expensive thing she's ever had.
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Old 06-14-2022, 01:10 AM   #53
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My husband wouldn't have achieved his position in life and his career if I had not been his partner. Together, we created the life we share. I didn't cost him, I came alongside and completed him. We are a team. (That sounds ridiculous but you get my meaning)
That doesn't sound ridiculous at all. To me, it sounds like pretty much the definition of a good marriage.

I've been married for ~40 years. Neither my wife or I have been concerned over whom is contributing more to the family income. Perhaps having taken up the rather expensive hobby of raising children may have had something to do with that.

In many ways, Charles Dickens had it right:

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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I do if it's cheesy popcorn.
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True love is very expensive. A wife is the most expensive thing a man can ever have.
Let me tell you, this whole thing goes out the window when the wife has... a wife.

Luckily for us, we have always been equal contributors in one way or another even though our individual earnings have ebbed and flowed. I certainly would not be where I am in my career without her backing.
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I do if it's cheesy popcorn.
I make my own. Buy some boxes of Kraft macaroni and cheese and pour the dried cheese powder packets into a jar. Pop some popcorn, put it in a very large bowl, sprinkle lots of melted butter over it, then sprinkle the dried cheese over it. It sprinkles more evenly if you use a little sieve. Stir often with a big spoon while sprinkling.
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