LATE NIGHT SNACKS
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker
I grew up having a good nights snack. Back in my good old days we usually had popcorn or maybe some ice cream. Now Grandma used lard or bacon grease and a big iron skillet to pop corn.
My kids always had a night snack. Well let’s say the whole family had a snack. Back when my kids were young our favorite snack was potato chips, corn chips, graham crackers with frosting or popcorn. And what we still talk about is buying an 8 pack of Pepsi and dividing a couple of 16 oz bottles of Pepsi.
Those were the days when we had 3 channels on TV and we would all sit and watch favorite shows like Andy Griffith, Brady Bunch, and Name that tune. Good times good memories.
Talking about snacks, did you know a dentist invented cotton candy? If you’ve ever enjoyed a towering cone of cotton candy at an amusement park or carnival, you have William Morrison to thank for the blue tongue and sugar rush. The dentist created the clouds of sugar strings with a candy maker from Tennessee and debuted the treat, then called fairy floss, at the St. Louis World’s Fair for 25 cents a box. (Mmmmm i love Cotton Candy) Most County fairs have it and now i can see bags of it in stores on a bag.
I am so thankful for Milton Hershey because i am a chocoholic. If there is chocolate around i am not happy until i eat all of it. I like anything with the name Hershey on it.
Mr and Mrs Hershey had such good luck as they had bought tickets to come to America on that fateful ship The Titanic.. Wow was the Hersheys lucky! A twist of fate saved the lives of chocolate magnate Milton Hershey and his wife Catherine.
The couple had booked two tickets on the brand new ship the RMS Titanic, but when business called Milton back to the United States early, he returned on the German ship America instead while Catherine extended her stay in Europe. God sure kept them safe,
Milton had safely arrived in America by the time reports of the deadly ocean liner sinking made the papers.
Oscar J. Kambly Created Goldfish To Honor His Wife’s Zodiac Sign
The snack that smiled back was the brainchild of Swiss baker and biscuit maker Oscar J. Kambly. In 1958, he created the “Goldfish” cracker and gifted them to his wife for her birthday, creating them in the shape of a fish to honor her astrological sign, Pisces.
I never cared for those goldfish crackers, but little children likes them. These cheesy crackers are a favorite snack now and you can buy them in gallon size cardboard boxes.
As old as I am, I still need a bedtime snack. Sometimes cereal, ice cream and chocolate if i can find some.
I look back and think of how far we have came in the snack food categories.
Little cakes and pies, flavored chips, Doritos, all kinds of popcorn and now thinking of snacks, it’s too early for mine. But i got some little donuts out in the kitchen and i might eat all the chocolate ones.
Do you ever have a bedtime snack? Do you love chocolate and Milton Hershey? Let me know what you eat for snack and I will give you a Penny For Your Thoughts.
