Truth in labels

[so lucky]

As you should be, Nyboy! My kids clean up their language around me, too.

 

[seedcorn]

@Nyboy great-message sent, message received.

 

[Lavender2]

has anyone seen commercial where customers are asked if they want tomatoes skinned with steam or lye? Like it, love it, hate it?

Does it affect which brand you will purchase? Obviously it didn't me as I can't remember the brand they were promoting--I am old and senile..

I did see that commercial a while back, the first thing I thought of was lutefisk.
My attention must have drifted as I didn't recall what brand it was. Commercials are irritating and overdramatized, usually exaggerated claims.... but I assume they influence some people. And I can see how the tomato/lye commercial may start some false rumors.

 

[seedcorn]

Lutefisk? Don't understand.

 

[thistlebloom]

You have to live in Minnesota to understand lutefisk, right @Lavender2 ?

 

[Lavender2]

.... Minnesota Lutefisk .. everyone must try it once.

Every year, a friend of ours invites us to the lutefisk feast in his town, we always seem to be busy that day ...

 

[seedcorn]

After reading link, gave you "like". Understand now. Things some people crave, others find not so good (PC enough?). For me, milk gravy or some sausage gravies made with milk. I make it as wife/DS love it but for me. YUCK, YUCK, YUCK!!!!!!!!

 

[journey11]

Wish I could say the same, I remember like it was yesterday and not 3rd grade. My mom and I where fighting I used the F word to her, she dragged me by my hair to the kitchen sink. She took a bar of soap and grated it over my teeth. For 2 days no matter how many times I brushed my teeth I tasted soap. The worst part was the shame I felt when she told all her friends. Today that would mostly likey be child abuse, heck dragging a kid by his hair would. Back then nobody she told thought it wrong. From that day on I was very carefull what words I said to her.

LOL, that is THE one word that you do not want to ever say to your mama. The only time she ever laid a hand on me and she slapped my mouth. I have to say I deserved it!

 

[Smart Red]

One of those children a teacher will never forget was Mikey. Mikey was ADHD long before the letters came together other than as a misspelled word, so he was just known as a trouble maker.

In first grade Mikey swore at his teacher. She took a bar of soap and made him take a big bite. "Yum," said Mikey, "that's better than the soap my mother uses."

I had Mikey in second grade. I had an arrangement with the office that, when necessary, I could send a student up there for something. At least once most mornings and once each afternoon, Mikey made the long trek to the office on an errand for the teacher.

Since Mikey never walked in the halls, I would ask him to take the outside route. After a brisk run outside to the office and back and a heart-felt thank you from the teacher, Mikey was ready to work for a while again.

I would never have thought to use soap on a student, and Mikey and I got along pretty well that year. However, he did get into some trouble or other and I decided to drive Mikey home to speak to his mother. Mikey directed me to his house. "That's my dog, that's my tractor, that's my truck, that's my milk house," he declared as we turned into the driveway. Nope, the people who came to the door were not family. Mikey lived across the road and up two houses. Mikey will be hard to forget.