La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for April 28, 2009
April 27, 2009
April 29, 2009
Transcript:
Barriobucks Chepe: I would like a delicious nickel cup of coffee. Employee: What's a "nickel"?
Gotta show my age - when I was a youth in Missouri, we had a plastic state coin called a mill - worth a tenth of a cent, and used to pay sales tax (there were also 5 mill pieces). They disappeared in about 1960, when sales tax went to two percent (retailers were required to collect a penny on odd amounts of 26-75 cents, IIRC).