mirrorbestfriend said:

oh stop whinin'....



ya look good though...

Anxiety said:

My grandma use to add I swear a pound of sugar to the kool-aid. We would have to add more water.

Oh she would recycle the plastic gallon milk jugs to put the Kool-aid in. My aunt had to remind her that they had pitchers and my grandmother told her it was a waste of her damn money.

Imago said:

I completely feel you but damn. You know we had to drink out of jelly and jam jars The good glasses were for company. My aunts, who my grandmother lived with, use to go with all the rules. I LOVED it. I miss ol' school grandparents.


You know mixin' bleach and ammonia to clean wasn't considerated toxic to her.

lawd....

Rhondab said:

That's a southern thing! There's a BBQ restaurant here to uses jelly/jam jars for ice tea! I hate it- don't like the threads, I have to use a straw- plus they're too wide to hold on to.

Rhondab said:

My mom came from a third world country, from a poor sustenance farming community, so sometimes, Rice & soy sauce was a meal for us kids


And don't get me started on those cheap ass shoes she used to by me. I would get one... ONE pair a year. So the shoe would be 2 sizes too big in the beginning of the year, and a bit tight at the end... and by the end of the school year, my big toes would wear little holes through the cheap ass shoes (so embarrassing as a kid) but I wouldn't count on getting a new pair until the summer shopping season prior to the next school year--- You know, when the new Sears Catalogue is released!


I'm scarred.

CynthiasSocks said:

OMG we have restaurants that do that here too




Of course we have a restaurant that serves chicken wings in dog bowls.

mirrorbestfriend said:

You don't call Cherry "Red Koolaid" do ya? Like "red" is a flavor...
'Cause...THAT'S Ghetto.

Yes, it makes you ghetto as all hell.



Then again, I love fried spam, and Tang.

I'm just a hot yellow mess.

Rhondab said:

My mom came from a third world country, from a poor sustenance farming community, so sometimes, Rice & soy sauce was a meal for us kids


And don't get me started on those cheap ass shoes she used to by me. I would get one... ONE pair a year. So the shoe would be 2 sizes too big in the beginning of the year, and a bit tight at the end... and by the end of the school year, my big toes would wear little holes through the cheap ass shoes (so embarrassing as a kid) but I wouldn't count on getting a new pair until the summer shopping season prior to the next school year--- You know, when the new Sears Catalogue is released!


I'm scarred.

Him: I like to mix those bitches together. That Sh*t is on point!

I'm pretty well off now and i can afford coke and pepsi but

i still find myself making Kool-Aid
and
making syrup sandwhiches from the yellow can

is this ghetto or just keeping it real?

mirrorbestfriend said:

Drinking Kool-Aid mixed with Thunderbird would definitely make you ghetto, lol.

What is a syrup sandwich???

Tom said:

omgosh...

syrup sandwiches...lol

its just some maple syrup on some bread.

Rhondab said:

gross!

...though it IS a bit like french toast, if you think about it too much...

Imago said:

Try shopping at K-Mart for clothes as a kid. You had to ring that stupid bell to get an attendant to come over and unlock on of the two dressing rooms in the middle of the store. My parents would get impatient and make me crawl underneath the door and unlock it myself - till I got too fat do do that anymore, LOL. Then they had their knockoff brand of "Adidas" that had like 4 stripes on them and were made out of some faux leather vinyl shit.

Though I do miss the early 80's when Hills and other department stores had racks filled with "Beat-It" and "Thriller" jackets.

Tom said:

omgosh...

syrup sandwiches...lol

its just some maple syrup on some bread.

Rhondab said:

The use of the the non word "considerated" is GHETTO

I meant considered.



When I was about 5 and my cousin about 8, my grandmother would wash us up, in the "front room", which was the tv room, the most popular room in the house and neighborhood using an old chitilin' bucket she would fill up with soap and water. She would say we weren't clean enough after we would give ourselves a bath.

So here we are have naked getting our skin ripped off from her scrubbin' us so hard....with her dippin' the wash cloth in the red chilitin' bucket.

Blue for life.

i actually had to hold an intervention a while back on someone who was using a country crock tub as a kool-aid pitcher.

Anxiety said:

My freshman year, one of my roommates's mom made dinner for us (Hamburger Helper ) and brought it to us in a big Country Crock tub.

Anxiety said:

My freshman year, one of my roommates's mom made dinner for us (Hamburger Helper ) and brought it to us in a big Country Crock tub.

AnckSuNamun said:

She didnt want to bring her good tupperware

AnckSuNamun said:

i will keep country crock tubs for storing leftovers, i admit it! but SERVING DINNER from a country crock tub?!?

though whatever i store in one of those tubs i usually forget about and it gets all moldy and nasty and i just end up throwing the tub out with the moldy leftovers, so really it's just a passive aggressive way of throwing away leftovers without feeling like i'm wasting food. is that like existentially ghetto?

omgosh...

syrup sandwiches...lol

its just some maple syrup on some bread.