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01-06-2017, 12:26 AM | #2 |
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"Yummy" didn't really factor in. My parents didn't like them, so I got them whenever possible!
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The good ole days when smoking was a harmless pastime...
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01-06-2017, 12:47 AM | #6 |
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Orange flavor lets us know it wasn't real oranges. Seems like that would have been enough. But they added the qualifier "imitation" as well. So I guess you can imagine what imitation flavor tasted like! I remember the Shari Lewis Show and Lambchop, but I don't remember Fizzies.
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01-06-2017, 12:59 AM | #7 |
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I was trying to figure out the connection with the bottom-right image that displays after the video stops, or maybe I was just staring, but anyway I zoomed in on it to read the text on my iPad and then saw it was about weird Japanese shows. Still not sure how that is connected to Fred and Barney and Granny though.
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01-06-2017, 02:51 AM | #9 |
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My aunt, who lived in rural Ohio, had Fizzies to disguise the taste of the well water. I don't remember if she herself used them, but all my cousins and I did when I was visiting there!
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01-06-2017, 08:29 AM | #10 |
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We used to put a Fizzie in our mouth and pretend to have rabies .... foaming at the mouth .... yeah, stupid, ... especially when it bubbled out your nose .... that really hurt ...
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01-06-2017, 09:42 AM | #11 |
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I preferred Tang, possibly because they pushed the astronaut connection so much, and in the 1960s we idolized the astronauts. Actually I still drink it on occasion. Mom wouldn't let us have things like Pixy Stix...and I never heard of Fizzies until a few months ago when I saw them on Amazon.
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I did that too; but only one time. The nose bit really hurt and I wasn't about to do it again. |
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And I remember the astronaut connection. Starting with Project Gemini, I really got hooked on following the space program. There was one song I always connect with it -- Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire -- because of the lyrics: Quote:
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01-06-2017, 01:10 PM | #15 |
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Yes they were! I was only 7 in 1965, but I remember 1968, unfortunately. The country went from wanting the war in Vietnam to eventually turning against it, and unfortunately they turned on the veterans as well. Thankfully my teen years were all in the 1970s when it was much more tolerable, at least after they put Tricky-Dicky out to pasture. But I remember watching every space launch in the mid to late 1960s. Even when we were in school, they would stop classes and roll in portable TVs on which to watch the launch and hear Walter Cronkite discussing it. It was a nice break from the constant war coverage.
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