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What no igloos? Iceland sandwich, with white snow like coconut, but where is the Eskimo? it should be at least frosty light blue…
unless it was in the freezer already and when you touch it, your hand became cold, then it sort of makes sense.
but then again, I really hate to be negative on anything vintage with such sweet typography, but what are the red lightning bolts about? “This candy is shockingly good”
or “Hazard to try our Iceland Sandwich?” or “Warning: awesome candy enclosed”
oh well my mind is somewhere else today, I think I saw it lashing together some logs down on the Ohio river bank, getting ready to embark on a scenic tour of the grand waterway, floating slowly down to the pacific. “hey brain! don’t leave yet, you have to finish your work!” but alas it is too far away. we are a small figure on the bank waving hard but look to be the size of an ant to our brain…
Back when cowboys and Indians was the most popular game played by kids, it seems to make sense to have the polar opposite of the pecan Pete bar. The icon of the Indian Chief was the feather head dress. I think the lost part of the game of cowboys and Indians was half of us want to be cowboys and the other half want to be Indians. There is something alluring about mastering nature and fighting civilization. Being born and raised on a time clock where your whole life is a scheduled event, you long for freedom. Native Americans never had to answer to a time clock. Stress was not artificially created for them by a schedule
, they only answered to nature and food sources. Maybe that was harder than I can ever imagine, but in my mind wondering around the woods looking for a rabbit to eat with my family seems to be a much better life than typing about it on a computer at 4:41 on a Wednesday afternoon, while sitting in a cubical. Sure it is cold outside, but I imagine you would get used to it if you lived outside your whole life.
side bar: peanuts, sugar, corn and cane syrup, soda and salt. that is one potent ounce for 5 cents
JUST AS GOOD AS PIE!
JUST AS GOOD AS PIE!
JUST AS GOOD AS PIE!
“hey elmer how good do you think that Queen Anne Jingle bar is?”
“well sir, I’d have to say…
it is not as good as a doughnut,
but better than a bowl of sugery cereal, soo by crackey,
it is just as good as, oh I don’t know, Pie maybe?”
“I would have to agree”
read the fine print on this one, it is far out!
side bar:
“I Want Candy” the song that just keeps giving
The Strangeloves – 1965 original recording, it a hit!
Bow Wow Wow in 1982 – where I first heard it, “wow that is so new wave”
sung by a hot chick with a mohawk, and the guitarist is playing a sweet Gretch White Falcon
Aaron Carter covered the song as well in 2000, for his second album Aaron’s Party (Come Get It). This was the first time I pointed out to my kids that the artist who sing the song didn’t nessesarily write it. They thought Aaron Carter wrote it. (I don’t know if he has written anything)
Spice Girl Melanie C for Ealing Studios movie of the same name I Want Candy.
never heard it or want to
Veruca Salt covers the song on their 2007 spring tour.
Good Charlotte has also covered the song.
