Nostalgia Topic!

[timmelon]

One of those rare ones where nostalgia is gleamed from your sense of smell!

Oh, the smell of PVA-based glues is indeed one of the memories from the school years .
However, I can say my sense of smell now is more dull than back then — I definitely remember how winter and spring were more fresh for me than today, and summer was more... flowery. Funny coincidence, but it started to change when I started making the day-long bicycle hikes. Luckily, the same food tastes roughly the same as before, and the grass is still green — at least, before it gets burned by the sun .

[Anyponedrawn]

To me a lot of the foods I liked as a kid were too sugary and I do not like them now.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

I miss the treats I ate as a kid in 1992... and paying 1992 prices.  A box of candy cigarettes for a dime. A package of Ramen for two bits.  Paying for your sugary sweet booty with a carton of deposit bottles. Remember Ferrara Pan candies? Mr. Melons, Lemon Heads, Alexander The Grapes, and Cherry Sours, then called Cherry Clans, in the original packaging.

[cue nervous murmurs and collar-tugging from all assembled]

[Soda]

^ I don't recall ever seeing those candies, but I did remember Lemon Heads.  That's the only one I remember seeing.

Nostalgia me!

The smell of a can of Play Doh or the scent of Elmer's glue from arts and crafts!

That is so specific but SO true! I totally know this smell.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

I still see them, too--but they're now a dollar a bag.  Most of Ferrara Pan's catalog has been discontinued, renamed, or wickedly hit with inflation.  It's the Mountain Dew Sangria of candies--oh, hey, remember that?  And Fish McBites?  Spending your junior high days observing the miracle of surface tension by blowing glycerin bubbles and building small balsa wood pyramids to study the mythical power of the pharaohs? Dissecting cats in high-school bio lab? Picking up empty aluminum cans in the street all day, until you came home bone-tired and reeking of beer, and making thirty cents a pound recycling them? Eh, maybe that was just me. But, man, I had fun.

[Sniffles]

I do not remember Fish McBites.  I do remember McNuggets.  We would occasionally get those when hanging out back in the day.  But usually we had Fourth Meal and Taco Bell. We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on.

[MasterXtreme]

We were mostly a Taco Bell group as well. One of my friends always liked Wendy's, so we'd go there sometimes to humor him. Outside of chain restaurants, we also did our fair share of local restaurants, mom and pop locations.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

Ah, for us in high school, we were allowed to eat off-campus. So it was the doughnut shop, Burger Broil, the local pizza joint, and my fav, the bowling alley (this is where I spent much of my aforementioned can money, avoiding lousy cafeteria food). For lunch I would usu. get the double bacon burger and chili cheese fries, with a soda or nonalcoholic near-beer--all the salt and grease I could eat for under five bucks--and watch my pal Josh and this cute little piece he was seeing at the time shoot a quick game of pool in the back. Or, occasionally my mother would drop by school with a takeout order from the Chinese place up the road, and we'd sit in the car and split a double happy in the parking lot... Or we'd go to this barbecue place we knew, which was both close by and cheap. Mom liked the food, but I found the meat so ropy you could re-string a tennis racket with it.  Also, the place was closed on Mondays.  Why is this? The local 'cue joint does the same thing. Is Monday universally unofficially recognized as the pork-man's holiday, or something?         Oh, and there was a video place across the street from the restaurant, so we'd stop and rent a few tapes for later that evening--both family fare and horror flicks, and usu. the ones that came in installments, like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street,Basket Case, and the original I Spit on Your Grave--not that remake/reboot crap.  In the days before streaming, it was truly a big deal to be the first kid in your social circle to see the latest release just as soon as it hit the VHS place.

We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on.

So did any of you cowgirls end up with that stallion, or is he the one that got away?  Just hope none of you were one of those girls who got pregnant when she was fifteen... it's like, you see her in Spanish class, note how big she's gotten, and think "Cripes, hope her water doesn't break between the"antes de la clase" and "¿como te llamas?"

[RainySunshine]

My school allowed kids to eat off campus, but by the time my class got into the high school, the school reversed that due to kids abusing the system.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

Oh, the smell of PVA-based glues is indeed one of the memories from the school years .

Did you ever try eating it?     

...Boy, remember when MTV actually played music?   The channel, not the G.L.O.W. Girl.

 Then again, these mean minxes were a big part of my misbegotten youth as well.  Looking back, I really learned to appreciate beauty at a very early age.

[MasterXtreme]

I don't know how MTV plays nothing but trash reality tv now. With nostalgia being so popular, I would totally play music videos if I were them, especially from the 80s and 90s.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

It is nice to see millennials/Gen-X-ers rediscovering the shows we grew up on thanks to streaming services, though.

Although, for the kids' sake, we adults might be forgiven for glossing over the more adult jokes and seamy, embarrassing behind-the-scenes stuff....   

[Soda]

Kids today really don't have anything to grasp onto.  They grasp onto 80s and 90s culture.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

A lot of nonnials*/doyenne millennials ("doyennials"?)/young Gen Z'ers are rediscovering Garfield and Friends, I find, thanks to YouTube and streaming channels like Roku, Tubi, and Pluto TV. I maintain the humor still holds up after over thirty years, and it does teach some nice life lessons.  Plus I get a kick out of those "Screaming With Binky" skits.

And now I dedicate a cartoon to all the young girls out there who are unhappy with their resplendent noses.  Remember, it's just how God made you....

* Short for "nostalgia millennials", a term I coined here.

[MasterXtreme]

I used to sort of like Garfield and Friends by I always found it dry, even as a kid. I never liked the US Acres part of the show. I wished they never included that as a kid. Looking back, I now know it was Jim Davis trying to promote his other comic series, but it didn't succeed.