Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for March 30, 2021

How about you’re no longer cognizant. He hasn’t seen the Family Dollar and Dollar General stores?

Or you can now use it as a forking implement….

As a kid, I would blow one fifth of my 25 cent allowance at the dime store. They had a large penny candy section. That seems like a life time ago.

We called it the five and dime.

Or get 2 for a dime at a thrift store. Plastic spatulas are best for non-stick pans. Metal utensils can scratch the coating off and that makes for a not too pleasant taste to your meal.

Who would try to glue together a spatula and use it on FOOD? Certainly the heat of the pan would melt the glue anyway and make the food toxic. Go to the store! Get a new one. From maybe this century.

When I was a child I loved going to the five and dime.

Penny candy was one of the best things about being a kid back when it was around. Now it’s the Dollar Store as others have mentioned. Best memories of being able to walk by myself to the penny candy store after getting my allowance (25 cents) and spending maybe half of it on penny candy that would last until the next weeks allowance. That same candy now would be 1 piece if I was lucky.

Ben Franklin stores.

Not going that far back but a ways back, I used to treat myself at KFC for the Toonie Tuesday special snack pack. Now they’ve changed the name and it’s around $3.50