I understand but it was the key thing that made sprouts one of my favourite treats as a kid. Somehow I have never had anyone who could duplicated the taste from my mom. My wife does not like the smell even though she likes cabbage. So I seldom have them anymore.
Lucky you didn't grow up in the seventies in a world of chain smokers. Yes they would smoke during appetizer, desert, dinner, and smoke continuously. My chain smoker parents did too while trying to enforce sit at the table dinners.
I remember sitting at the Legion as a kid with my old man in a haze coming home smelling like popcorn and cigarettes. It’s amazing I haven’t been diagnosed with lung cancer.
Every doctor I've ever had swears up and down that I must've been a smoker. No, my parents smoked me.
We had a pretty good display out at our place last night, and my son took a bunch of pics. Let's just say that that the pics did not equate to what I saw with me bare eyes, looked like a far better show in the pics.
I started my season tickets with the Eskimos when I was around 16, at old Clarke Stadium, and the couple in front of us brought a briefcase to every game, specifically designed to hold a bunch of booze, glasses, etc. By the end of the game they were so shitfaced they could barely get down the stairs. You couldn't walk 10 steps without kicking a mickey bottle or two. Different times.
I remember when I first moved out here and one of my cousins' husbands took me to football games. He brought a little cooler with food and drinks. Remember doing this at Bomber games too.I started my season tickets with the Eskimos when I was around 16, at old Clarke Stadium, and the couple in front of us brought a briefcase to every game, specifically designed to hold a bunch of booze, glasses, etc. By the end of the game they were so shitfaced they could barely get down the stairs. You couldn't walk 10 steps without kicking a mickey bottle or two. Different times.
It would be neat to go back in time and go to a game in the 70s or 80s. No phones, no metal detectors, cardboard tickets, cheap food.
I remember my bitch of a step mom lighting up and keeping the windows rolled up.
The "food" was disgusting. It wasn't all that cheap either. One thing I liked back then at hockey games is less boozing. Some people managed to pack their own or predrink but back then watching a game was a sober experience, a family experience, and you didn't have everybody in the aisle getting up 10X for beer, snacks, washroom. People would sit down and watch the game. The in the stands experience was so much better back then.
I didn't feel the Northlands experience that good unless you were in the Club seats. I liked the lounge under the stands, the Rogers club lounge is dull. But the other seats in the lower bowl are better.
As a kid in the old Knothole Gang back in the 60's we looked forward to the $.25 hot dogs with a generous helping of fried onions. You could also bring your own sunflower seeds into the stadium. I must say in general kids were respectful in how we ate those so as not to bother anyone else.
I was older when I moved here but I always liked fried onions.....
And probably not one kid in 2024 with the manual dexterity to play it.
Yes, there is. Metal players and wooden pucks.
