I am looking at a Shasta grape soda box at the moment!

The slogan is gone!

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MY mom and grandmother had 'secret' codes for products they bought and used.

One of my faves is

http://www.packagemuseum.com/exhibit...olddutch01.htm

It was never "Old Dutch", as is pretty obvious, it was called "Old Lady's Powder" Or "Polvo de la Viejita" because they used went by the picture on the can and if they sent us to the store, we would know what they wanted.

Now the are tons of different brands and labels, but, I knew that when she asked for me to pick it up for her-It may not have had the little old lady on the can, but the idea is what more important.



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RE the cumin in the Chile Colorado?


MOM: Take a palm full of cumin and add that to the dish.

(Her recipe was for THOUSANDS-min was for two)

I carefully measured out the cumin-again not paying attention to the size of her palm versus mine- finished cooking it, ate and later on thought I was going to die from -you guessed it- too much cumin in the dish.


I thought my gall bladder exploded!