RUNNEMEDE REMEMBERED

Growing up in a small town in Southern New Jersey


Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Bug juice and tasty kakes


Okay, so what do we call kool aid? Bug juice. Remember that? When I was growing up, during DVBS we had a "food" break -- bug juice and cookies. The "bug juice" was some sort of kool aid, never grape, because that could be misconstrued to be communion juice. And one year one of the kind ladies in the church made home-brewed root beer. Boy was it yeasty. It tasted vaguely like root beer, but mostly like yeast.

Going to camp we also had the privilege of drinking "bug juice" -- also Kool Aid, always the red variety. Red sugar water with a bit of cherry flavor. YummmmM!

But TastyKakes -- now they were a great treat. Nothing can compare to TastyKakes and pies. The best TastyKakes were the butterscotch krimpets, followed by the chocolate iced cup cakes (not creme filled). The best pies were lemon and peach (in my opinion). And they only cost 10 cents each. What a treat. (Alan's favorite TastyKake has always been the peanut butter tandy.

I have not misspelled cake -- TastyKake is spelled with a "K", not a "C". Keeping in with their trademark, they also spell "krimpets" with a "K" rather than a "C".

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