Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | by nathan
Rose in Slice Glass (Still Life)
Rose in Slice Glass (Still Life)
Before the second of our two recent garage sales, my mom gave me a box of stuff she’d been given by my grandmother that hadn’t sold in another garage sale. I was going through it the morning of our sale, putting prices on things, when I came across a collection of six Slice tumblers. Remember Slice? Here, here’s a commercial:
Mandarin Orange Slice by the pool with a bag of Planter’s White Cheddar Cheesy Balls is one of my favorite culinary memories of childhood. So I squealed with delight, showed the glasses to Brian, who also squealed with delight - his more girlish than mine - and we were like, "UM YEAH WE’RE KEEPING THOSE."
The rose is off the rose bush at the abandoned house next door. Laurie picked it last night when they dropped by for a visit, and it was full of bugs and spiders, as rose blooms are, and so she let me have it. So I put it in one of the Slice glasses, because I thought that looked neat.
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Comment by heather m.
aaaaaaaahh!!
you are so great- these remind me of a certain set of 6 tumblers we got for free from McDonald’s (with requisite Happy Meal purchase, of course), that had a Garfield motif. My brother and sister and i begged my parents for months on end to hit up the McDonald’s until we finally had a full set.
::sigh!::
And thank you for the nostalgic Sprite commercial, too. Hoo, boy. Nothin’ beats the ’80s
21 May 2008 2:51 pm