Field Days and Lunch Trays

Stacy and Carol chat about their busy week, including spring cleaning, a sick dog, and plans to clean out a closet before an upcoming out-of-town shopping trip, teasing a special episode next week. They share “childhood memories” part two, focusing on school and food: homemade cafeteria bread, grilled cheese with chili, square pizza, milk break with classroom milk crates, and lunch tickets, plus lunchboxes with thermoses. They recall odd cafeteria sides like corn with pizza, Friday ice cream cups with wooden spoons, and field day events such as the three-legged race and Frisbee throw. They reminisce about school carnivals and cakewalks, the school bookstore, student jobs (attendance collection, raising the flag, filmstrips), old playground equipment, music class instruments, field trips to local factories, and neighborhood ice cream trucks, ending by encouraging listeners to like, comment, and share.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hey everybody, welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy and uh and Carol, and we are so excited that you guys are joining us this week. How has your week been? Pretty good. Been busy, running errands, you know, checking stuff off my list. I know you've been doing the same thing, trying to I don't know. Now I gotta stick think about spring cleaning because I saw all this cleaning stuff for sale at the grocery. I'm like, hmm. Well, I kind of wasted the beginning of the week because my dog has been sick, as you know. And so one whole day was wiped out because I'd been with her at the emergency vet late the night before. So I'm kind of behind on what I wanted to accomplish this week. But my next I'm busy tomorrow. I have lots of errands and stuff, but next on my list is to clean out my closet. There's so much stuff. Well, I gotta make room so when you and I shop next week when we go to town, we are some new stuff. Yes, y'all need to tune in next week for a very special, I don't know, just special episode. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Well, so uh speaking of episodes, a couple weeks ago we did a really fun episode about just different childhood memories and things, and we got a lot of feedback on that episode, and people loved it, and there were even a few requests, like people brought up some things that jarred more memories of us. We also shared some of their memories, and that was very fun. We got to hear about some of your childhood favorite toys, and somebody said something about they played they had Atari tournaments or something. Somebody left us a fan mail that they had neighborhood Atari tournaments. I thought, oh, that's all fun. Yeah, so we consider this part two of it. Just different childhood memories and different things. So yeah, that's what we're gonna do today. We're just gonna hope to bring back some fond memories. One of my, of course, we want to center it around food as usual. One of my first thoughts was we were talking about what are we gonna talk about? And I said, Oh, one of my fondest childhood memories, and funny that we ended up being teachers for a hundred years. So we've spent quite a bit of time in the school cafeteria, not only as a child, but then as an educator. But I just remember at my elementary school, they would make homemade bread. Wow, it literally would run you out of the building, and it was probably on grilled cheese day, they would make these. I guess it was like a ciabata or something. You must have gone to a fancy school, but not at all. Trust me. It was so old there was a picture of Roosevelt in front of it. I'm telling you, it was not fancy. Anyway, I can't remember if they did. I don't know. I didn't buy my lunch a lot, so I can't remember like if they did that kind of stuff. Like homemade. I'm sure they did. This one they would do a cheese sandwich and chili, and that was my favorite day because I could and I knew when we were having it because I could smell it coming from the raffle. Hence your love of food started with the grilled cheese and chili in school. It was delicious, and I don't think I ever bought my lunch much unless it was like pizza day or something. Yeah, and that uh I'm sad to say the pizza was the same pizza they're serving today. The flat square, yeah. The ink it's got ketchup on it. I don't I didn't hate it, I thought it was okay. Well, yeah, we were kids. That reminds me of those uh fundraiser pizzas that we would sell. I forgot the what was the brand? Like Tony's or I have no idea. We I don't think we ever sold pizzas, but we sold um summer sausage and cheese in middle school. Yum. Although that must have been a big thing back in the early 80s. Who knows? That's funny. I don't know. At least if you sold something to eat, it was you knew people were gonna use it. Now, when I first started teaching, this isn't a childhood memory, but they the cafeterias would make like um salads for teachers and stuff. Do you remember that? I remember that, and we paid $1.25 for them. And and they also charged more for the teacher's plate than the children's plate, but you got the same amount. Yeah, I was always like, hmm. So when I was in elementary school, I didn't, like I said, I didn't buy my lunch a lot. And I think we talked about this. We had milk break every day, which I guess now would be called snack, but you legit paid like a nickel or something. And at our school, one or two people, whoever got the lucky pick, went and picked up a legit crate filled with the little cartons of milk and brought them back to the classroom, and we would drink our little pay our nickel or whatever it cost. And it was a big deal break. It was a big deal too. Yes, I guess we needed a shot of protein in the afternoons to get frozen the rest of the day. Listen, I don't know. They don't have milk break anymore, but you can bring your giant water container. Yeah, you can bring your your gallon of we it was fun. I looked forward to it. It was chocolate milk too, I'm sure. No, we did not have chocolate milk. That's what I was about to say. Oh, did we not? Ours was white milk only. And it was in the red purity carton because purities are from it was whole milk then. Whole milk, and probably had 20 sugars in it. And we would go, we wouldn't put get the milk crate, but it did take two people, and I was always so excited when my job of the week was to get to go get the milk because you would you know those fiberglass trays? Yeah, we would go and we'd count out the 18 or the however many children were in the classroom. It was a very important job, and we had to carry it, you know. Every now and then we we drop a couple and we just pick them right back up and keep going. Anybody I went to elementary school is listening to this. Did we have chocolate milk at milk break? Because now I don't know. I know for sure that we did not because the first time I saw a chocolate milk was in middle school, and I thought I had done gone to heaven. I thought, okay, this is cool, you know. I don't know why. The main thing that sticks out with me is I'd pull a coin out of my pocket and I'd get to have milk break. Well, uh, we I don't know how they took your money or whatever, but we had uh milk tickets, and I can vividly remember it was a blue strip, probably like a I don't know. Anyway, blue strip of tagboard or something like that, and it was perforated and it would say Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday all the way, and they would rip it off. Interesting, but I don't know how those didn't get uh torn. Okay, so I do have a memory of this, and the few times I went through the line at lunch, our tickets we also had tickets, but they look like a business card and they were white. I don't know if they had our name handwritten on them, but the lady would there would be a stack of them and they'd be um what are they called? A clip. What are you paper clip together? Oh yeah, and it was probably somebody's job to pass them out to everybody, right? The the the cafeteria lady kept the class, you know, she'd have them and then she'd find your teacher's name and then she'd hand the stack of lunch tickets and then the whoever would pass them out, and then you'd hand it to her, and she had a whole punch and she'd for the day and you'd get your punch.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Wow.

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Well, I don't remember have any recollection, like how did they know if you paid for it, or um, I have no idea how all that went, I'm sure. I do remember the poor women working there were not always in the best moods, and and I I understand why now because they were kind of scary back in the day. I thought they were scary. Well, they were not very happy. I mean, I'm now I know why because I got up at 2:30 to get there at to make pizzas, making homemade bread. They were probably up at in there at four o'clock, but um I just remember we would tear off our little whatever day it was, and um, it was just a neat thing. You got like food back then, like now they just sell extra junk, you know. But like you would get like uh your main meal, your milk, a vegetable, and you always got a little dessert, and they'd make these little yellow cakes with the chocolate icing. Did you ever get one of those? No, but we had pineapple upside down cake, and I remember loving it. I didn't love that, but yeah, but you got a dessert every day with it. They don't do that anymore because I guess it's not healthy, and a roll, an action, a roll, yeah. You get like a I remember it being a little more like yummy and more things, but I did buy it a few times. That was a lunch box, girl. Yeah, I did take my lunchbox now. Don't don't get me wrong. I and I still have my lunchbox, it's a raggedy and an ante. Thank you very much. I mean, y'all, people used to we used to throw our lunch in a metal container that would be rusted. It it's it's metal, it was an Aladdin from right here in good old Nashville, and we put I think my mom would put high C punch in my um thermos. And um, yeah, I and I would I usually had a cheese sandwich and some Cheetos and Punch. And thus my mom put Kool-Aid in my thermos. You remember you turned the little lid and had like a little cup, it had a handle, you could sip that little cup. You used the lid as as your cup. It was it was so good. I usually had Kool-Aid, I probably had a peanut butter sandwich, probably a cheese sandwich. I don't remember what else. Maloney. I ate bologna. I don't remember if I ate much bologna, but yeah, I had a a Snoopy lunchbox when I started kindergarten that looked like it was plastic. I have a picture of it. Um, I wish I'd kept it. Yeah, it was so cute. I actually got my actual lunchbox because I'm a hoarder and I keep everything. Well, so I just remember the thing that confused me the most was on pizza day. They thought somebody thought it was a good idea to serve corn with it, and I don't oh yeah. I don't know why. Lord, they did that for years. I mean, I think when we were teaching, you were getting corn with your pizza. But why somebody explain that? I've never had corn at home when I ate pizza of you. Uh hold on, guys. Let me fix a can of corn to go with our pizza. I mean, pizza that doesn't sell it, nor do nor do dominoes or any of those places. Like, who think who came up with that? Somebody wrote to us and let us know because somebody from the State Department that comes up with the meals for school work. My mother never served corn ever with pizza. I don't get it. But we had it, yeah. And then Taco Day, I would I would get it if it was on Taco Day, but like Taco Day came with something crazy like broccoli. I don't remember. Oh me. But anyway, yeah. Milk break was a big deal if you got milk if you were the milk break person. Did you guys have an elementary school field day? But it wasn't like what field day is now. Do you know? Did you guys do it? It was like a whole school event. It was like the elementary Olympics of the world. And oh, they still my heart. I actually have my little blue ribbon and it has my elementary on it. My and I have a blue ribbon, and let me tell you, I wasn't real athletic as a kid, okay? Yeah, you're gonna die when I tell you what I wanted in. What I want to hear, go because I have I have the one and only blue ribbon from Phil Day I ever won to. Now, now, granted, I I I had come a long way once middle school hit because I did play three sports in middle and high school, but now in elementary school, I guess I was warming up my my arms because I wanted in the frisbee through that's fun. I don't get it. Like, what? But I remember my dad. We got it. Was it who could throw it the farthest? Or were you A? For something, yeah. No, it was distance, and I literally practiced in the front yard with my dad, and I know he would come home from work exhausted and be I'd be like, come on, we gotta go practice frizz. I need to talk to somebody because okay, so my elementary school is no longer even standing, okay? But neither is mine. It was an old, it was the original Mount Gillette High School back in the day, and so we had a huge field out back that probably at one point had been like a football field, right? So we would that's where you would gather for field day. And I can remember like um each class would wear a certain colored t-shirt, right? And you were that was your color for the day, and you would do this, it would last all day long. I felt like we all brought lunches, we stayed outside. There were organized races, it wasn't like field day now where you just go from activity to activity, yeah. And I I have no memory of participating in any field day race except this one, and it was first grade, I believe. And there was another, I was always kind of tall-ish for my age, and there was another girl who went on to play basketball in high school, Tiffany Cersei. I she's still in the area. We were both probably two of the taller gals. We got paired together to do the three-legged race. And she was very athletic, and we laugh about this. I saw her at our class reunion. Like, I'm pretty sure I was flying behind her. Our legs were tied together and she took off and we won first place. But I give her 100% of the credit because I was probably just flying behind her. It's the only time I've ever won any kind of athletic race or anything. But we laugh, and I'm like, you know, you were dragging me behind you, just but we won and I have a ribbon for it. So that is hilarious. Well, it's better, it's better than the frisbee throw. I mean, how non-athletic can you get? Yeah, but you won, so all that practice paid off. That reminds me of the uh one of my favorite races was the spoon and the egg. You would take a literal soup spoon or a wooden spoon and put an egg in it and run to the other end and give it to your partner, I think. And then they would have to run it. You can drop it. Well, if you did and it broke, you were just out. Yeah. Now, this I never participated in this because I feel like um older kids did this, but we didn't do this my entire elementary career, but I can remember we had May Day and like the older grade got to dance around a pole holding the ribbons. Do you remember Mayday? Maybe pole. No, yes, if we did it, I don't remember it. I never got to I think my mom has pictures of it because we dressed up in these like costumes. I don't know what we were doing, and we went to Mayday. We're going to a cakewalk. We went to okay. Now that just made me think of something. Cakewalk. Girl, I love a cakewalk. Now I do too. These aren't a thing anymore, you guys. And so where I went to elementary school every year, they had a huge craft fair. I know we did too. Oh, and let me tell you, it was the best Saturday of the year because we called ours a carnival. Ours, it was basically that. Craft fair. My mom and dad used to go to craft fairs. My dad has always done woodworking, and my granny and mom always crafted, and y'all craft fairs were like it on a stick back in the day. Okay, like it was a fun activity, it didn't cost anything. There would be food, and but there was always a cakewalk, and you yeah, you could win entire cakes. Yeah, if you landed on the right number, they would say, Okay, the windows. Oh, I loved a cakewalk. I know, and you'd come back with your whole cake that y'all, somebody had made it in their kitchen. Lord only knows where it came from, right? Like, but back then that's what we did. What did you do with it? Stick it in your trunk until the day was over. So when my parents did craft fairs, I mean, we would go the night before and set up. So, of course, especially when it was at my elementary school, I thought it was cool because I was in the school in the evening, like you know, yeah. And did you ever run up and down? Probably, I'm sure. And then they would set up, and then of course, Saturday, it was an all-day affair, right? And it was what people did that we didn't we didn't have as much stuff to do now. So people came out. I mean, it was a fundraiser for the school. We would get um mom and dad would have their booth and sell their crafts. And I'm sure me and my sister, we just ran them up at the school because back then nobody was gonna steal you, okay, at your elementary school. No. And people would have little, there would be, you know, snack board stuff, and you would I'd go look at all the little cutesy craft things I wanted to go ask mom, could I buy? And you would play games and you would buy tickets. Do you remember my mom would give me money and I'd buy tickets, and that's how I play the cakewalk. And I don't know why I loved the duck, the dunk pole. Yeah, and you'd pick up a duck and look at the number on the literally the only thing you did. Yay! You get to pick out of these spider rings. It looked like you were going to the dentist, you know. It was the spider ring. It was always a new pencil that the bank had donated. You'd get a oh, yes, that was a big deal. Yes. Oh, that reminds me too. Didn't did y'all have a bookstore? Yes. I used to get to work at it sometimes. Oh, I love it. I did too. When I was in when I was in sixth grade, the sixth graders ran the bookstore. Yep, and we would sell the cup erasers for a nickel or whatever they were. Oh, I thought I was running the tape. Girl, I loved it. If you had money for the bookstore, you were yeah, you were something else, right? And it's like you said, the older kids got to run it, and there would be like notebooks and pencils and notebooks back then. The um mechanical you take the lead out and push it up the end to get the new lead. It came out of one end and pushed in by the way. Girl, I I was all about one of those. We sold pencil pouches with zippers that would just rip your finger off. I don't remember, but they'd have little erasers. They had the hole punches in them. You put them in your trapper keeper. They were like paper plastic, and plastic. Awful. Oh, yes, we had a bookstore. Now, in sixth grade, like you said, you got jobs, but you had to be like your grades had to be certain, right? So yeah. Um, I one time my job, I think we rotated, I got to go around and the teachers would probably with a piece of scotch tape. I don't remember. They would stick a piece of paper on the outside of the door with the attendance on it. And that was one of our one of our jobs was to go to each room and rip that piece of paper off and then turn them in in the office, right? Did you have to fold the tape down so they didn't know? I don't remember. I don't know. I mean, I don't think they were self-stick back then, but that was one of the jobs. And I thought it was so cool. We'd walk the entire school and we'd snatch those things off. And if they didn't have it, we'd have to knock on the door and ask them for their attendance. Interrupt. Well, you'd say, excuse me. I felt very, very um official. Well, my one of my jobs in as a sixth grader, not only or fifth, I don't remember, uh, was we would put the flag up and we would we'd clip it and pull it up the pole, and then in the afternoon you had to fold it and and to a triangle, like correctly fold it. And I remember we had to leave class at 10 till and the buses pulled in at like if it was 10 till three, the buses came at three, but they let us leave 10 minutes early to fold the flag. Well, I as another job I always aspired for because I wanted to be the person in the classroom that got to crank the film strips when the tape went beep and then you went and you cranked the film strip and it went to the next one. And then the it was like a read-along book, but a film strip. Or it would go. I wanted to flip I wanted to crank the film strip. Um that's what I wanted. I wanted to do that job too. Well, I always wanted to turn the lights off and on. Like, why? What the heck? I don't know, but I'm just thinking of all these things now. You know, they don't have film strips anymore. That's not a thing. You just find a video on YouTube and show it. Well, I do remember the televisions that we did have, which was a big deal to have one, because we would watch Channel 8 in Nashville. We would watch it was some music show and friend what was her name. I don't remember anyway. She was with WDCN Channel 8, and we we that woman taught music, and it was an approved Metro Schools show that we would watch. But guys, we had to check the TVs out of the library on a cart. We didn't have them. And it was on a pole, looked like a basketball goal. And you would roll it down the it took three people. Yeah, it was in a giant cabinet and it had a hook latch. And you would unhook it and would it would, you know, open up. And oh, that's funny. Half the time it would not work. Yep. But I didn't think it was wasting time. The longer it took the teacher to try to fix it, the less I had to do work. Okay. And that's where I just wasn't like I wasn't paying attention because I'm sure I was jabbering. What are you doing? Or you know, what was it? What's in your lunchbox? I was probably asking them for a Twinkie or something. Who knows? So our Mount Julie Elementary. Oh, go ahead. Back to the bookstore. I remember we had control over we couldn't sell the skinny pencils to the first graders. We had to make them buy the fat pencils. Do you remember they were like either those giant and the fat crayons, yes? Green, red, or blue, and they were only allowed to buy them. Which we now know isn't really great. They don't need to have fat pencils to learn to write. I don't know. Apparently, they thought our our squishy fingers needed a larger utensil to hold. I don't know. Our playground at Mount Gillette Elementary, there were two. So there was one like OG playground on the very end that I only remember playing on it a few times, and then we had one out back. But there's the playground equipment would be on like asphalt. So when you flew off the merry-go-round or you fell off the monkey bars, you were definitely breaking something. Okay. That does not make sense. It doesn't. I don't know who built it, but I was like, well, this is a death machine. So we had, and I hated the merry-go-round because there was always some jerk that wanted to run, you know, run beside it and make you go as fast as you can. Yeah. And then you would be like holding on for dear life. Oh, and the seesaws were on the blacktops too. So if somebody let you go on that, you just fell to the ground. I just remember we would we had an obstacle course, and we had fancy. There were you would jump these hurdles, but they were literally like half of them were eight inches. And then, like, if some um like we had that pea gravel, and if and if a big storm had come and water had washed away the rock, it was up a little higher. So we had some four inch, some eight inch, some ten inch, but on the side of it was a larger, so you could you could jump the smaller ones or the larger ones opted for the smaller. Oh, I thought you were gonna say larger so you could show off. No, no, no, no. I I was not, no, and then uh I do remember this weird tube thing, and you would crawl through it on your knees, and I just remember it killing my kneecaps. I don't know what the purpose I can't remember. I mean, we had the basic the slide that would give you third-degree burns when you came down at the metal slide, and I looking back, that thing was steep. Like we had no business even climbing in the the steps were skinny metal, and you'd get to the top. There was nothing holding you in, and it was always coming out of the ground halfway, and our swings. I promise you, our swings, we would go as high as we could, and it would it would bump and we'd be like, whoa, and we'd just keep going. Yeah, and it was it was lifting out of the ground. They'd have to get it. There was no mulch or anything. Like if you got hurt, you got it was rock for sure. That's funny. Well, the weirdest part, not weirdest, but thing that was super distinct about elementary where I went versus where I taught. Um, our art teacher would come into the classroom and do art activities with us. Now, the younger grades, like first grade, that was kind of part of the curriculum. Yeah, I can't remember having like an art teacher. I do we had a music teacher. Well, that that as well. Like she would come in and we'd all go to our cubbies and get our xylophones out. And I still have my xylophone, it says Carol Garrett on it, and it has my teacher's name. And I loved playing those little instruments, yeah. But then I can remember it was a big deal when you got to third grade. You got to play the recorder, those black recorders, and you had it in a what like a plastic with a snap on it. Did anybody ever really learn how to play the recorder? Lewis had one, they did them at at school when the kids were little. His was blue. I don't understand. I mean, I get it, you're learning kind of the scales, but I'm not sure that that can take you very far if you if you perfect it in elementary. I always wanted to play the triangle.

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Yeah.

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I love the triangle. It's easy. Or the jingle bells on the little I I like the cymbals, and they had red plastic, and you'd run your fingers through like that monkey that claps them together. Yeah, I loved my um having music class, and at one point I took violin. I didn't know. The teacher would come, she went around from school to school, and my poor parents, we had to go down to Hughley's in Madison in Madison Square. Get you a violin. Did you just rent one? Rent and rent a violin. I'm like, Lord helped. I didn't do band or anything. My parents spent all their money on dance lessons, so I I can't read music or anything like that. Well, I can't either, so a lot of good my uh recorder years did me. Darn it, you could have been a world-class recorder player, whatever they might be called. Um you talked about some things that don't have anything to do with school childhood memories. Um, like field trips. I just remember going on field trips were so much different than now. Like now there's all these rules, and yes, you have to do all this, it's ridiculous. But we didn't have as many places to go back then, and I we'd always some of the same places. Yeah, we don't know 10 minutes, girl. Children's theater, that was a big deal. The country music hall of fame was we went there a lot. The original one. Do you remember that back? Yeah, it seems like it was not well, it isn't where it is now. No, no, no, it was much smaller, but we went there a lot, yeah. Yeah, and then it seems like uh well, one that I specifically remember because yet again it involved uh food. We went to the sunbeam factory out on Murfreesboro Road, and when we left, we all had those little sunbeam hats, and they gave us a pack of rolls, dinner rolls to take home. I don't think we ever got to go there. Well, I got home with them, and mom cooked them, and we had them for dinner. That's a fun field trip. Yeah, we went to the goo goo factory for those of you that aren't from here. Goo goos are made and or they were made in Nashville. I don't know if they still are. The standard candy company, they are. We would go to the goo goo. Did you get to sample them? Um maybe I don't remember. I mean, probably, who knows? Now you'd have to have 14 um permission slips if somebody didn't eat a peanut on accident or you know, can't have chocolate. I don't remember. Maybe we we might have got one to take home, who knows? But yeah, and again, speaking of food, um that reminds me my brother and his friends, I say would bully me, but they would lie to me about the they would lie to me when the it was the popsicle man we called it. I think you called it ice cream truck. Ice cream truck. Yeah. But y'all, I mean, obviously that doesn't happen anymore, and that's really sad. I think now it's sad and the ice or something because they don't have it's not the same. There were still ice cream men when Lewis was little because they'd come through the neighborhood. Um the ice cream has evolved some, but you would make like it would ensue panic because you could hear it a couple streets over, right? Playing the circus music, and you'd go running in from wherever you were outside. Bob sickle man, bobsicle man, asking your mom, who then has to dig around for change because it that's what it costs back then. Now it would be an arm and a leg. And you would run out hoping you hadn't missed him, or run down a few yards to the house wherever he was stopped. And my favorite thing to get, there were two. Yep. I either wanted the drumstick with the peanut crushed peanut. Nutty buddy, yeah, nutty buddy, yeah. Or I wanted the pre-frozen snow cone. Do you know what I'm talking about? It had all the different I want those were my two favorites. My favorite, my go-to was either the bon pop, okay, the red, white, and blue. Yeah. Who knows what red dye, blue dye number two was in. You're still living, it's okay. Yeah. And the orange push-up. Okay. Oh, my mother would buy those.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Sherbert.

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It was sherbet. But I have beef with those. Do you want to hear my beef? Go for it. I can hear my mom would buy those at the store. It must have been a big thing. And you know, if you all do they still make those? I don't know. Gonna have to look. I back then though, y'all. I hated when you got to the end of it because it was cardboard and it would be you know the mushy when you'd get to the end of it. As you pushed up your oh, I forgot about those. I hadn't thought about that at a show. Or my other favorite was ice cream sandwich. Even though now on Fridays, going back to um cafeteria days, we were allowed to buy ice cream on Fridays. And I do believe it was 25 cents. And I would work all week to order my ice cream money, and I would get the um ice cream sandwich because I could not eat the cup of ice cream with that wooden spoon, and it would just gross me. Who invented the wooden spoon for the cups of ice cream? I do not know. They're gross, they still make them, y'all. They still need the chills. I know it's they still have them. I do remember getting the little cups of ice cream at school, but you always got that dumb wooden spoon and it was nasty. Well, and and it had that little like hump on it, and you would just pull it off and you'd had to lid the lid. It was so good. I feel like mine were also half melted all the time by the time I got it. They were. I'm sure the refrigeration system was out of date. But yeah, back to the popsicle man. My but my brother and his friends lied to me for years, and they would say, Oh, that's just the music wagon. And they, I'm like, So you wouldn't get a treat? They didn't want to have a treatment. And they would hide and eat their popsicles, and he would always get something dumb, like the double stick, oh just regular. Yeah, I'm like, you were lying all that time telling me it was a music. How much older was your brother than you? Two and a half years. Oh, okay. We wouldn't that much three and a half, three and a half, sorry. Yeah, but I mean, he was old enough to be able to trick me. And I've forgot about the double stick. Do they still make those? I'm gonna have to take a trick down the ice cream aisle because we would break them off, we would break them and have one in each. Of course, it's all I know. I was coming down your arm. I was just about to say, popsicles are the worst to eat, they're messy. They are. Um, I'm feeling like we need to bring back the ice cream truck. Let's do it. Let's get one, girl. Carol and Stacy's. Yeah, we'll take her on the road. Can I make a new song? I don't want that stupid yeah, that's a song. Can we get something cuter? Yeah, we could do, you know, something like a comment if you want Carol and Stacy to start an ice cream truck business. We'll drive around town and sell y'all ice cream. And we'll uh actually, if we get enough downloads, we'll get some sponsors and maybe we could get some ice cream companies to sponsor us and we could eat our ice cream. I can't even eat ice cream because it hurts my stomach, but I kind of it hurts my teeth because I'm old now and my teeth are yeah. I don't know, we might be on to something because, like you said, all that's left now. I mean, you get cone ice. Well, how many cone ices can you eat? Nothing against cone ice, you know. They're delicious. It's just it's just that's what it is, you know. So once you've had one, you've had it. So and the icy the icy machine is still a big deal, but you know where can you get an icy at the movies? Unfortunately, when we go at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, but they have one in the yeah, you can get a free one. You used to have them, so back I mean Kmart used to have them, Target used to have them, but now they don't have like well, Kmart's not a thing anymore. Target just has Starbucks, they don't have a snack bar anymore. See, and I don't ever remember there being a place to get coffee growing up at the unless it was Christmas. We didn't drink coffee except at home, but in the morning, and you know, it wasn't a thing or after dinner, yeah, we're driving around just chugging coffee all day. I know. All right, well, I guess we've covered the rest of our childhood. I don't think we even got to all of them. So we'll bring some more up eventually. Um, because I know there were other ones we had talked about, but yeah, again, people, friends, yes, our free time is almost up. So if y'all want us to talk longer, we just to like and comment and share our podcast so that we can um film for longer because we are on the free version. Yes, but we love you guys and we appreciate everybody listening to us. Yes, it's so much fun. Thank you for supporting us, and we want you to remember to not make a fist, start a list. Bye guys, see you next time.