(02-15-2017, 08:18 PM)Natalie Wrote: It's interesting that every MK I know love and miss the country where they lived as children, even if they don't have the same religious beliefs now.
Because it was home. <3
I think the only thing I miss that I can't get anymore are Lehman's mints. The candy plant was located fairly locally & the mint was grown nearby, too. They closed shop when I was in my teens, but those football or disc-shaped mints got me through many a boring church service.
I grew up in Roswell NM. We had a local hamburger place called Red Crow. I would hit the drive through daily for a Cherry Cream Dr. Pepper. It was a cherry Dr. Pepper with a thin coating of soft serve vanilla ice cream on top. It was the best!
We had a locally owned Mexican restaurant which was run by an American family who had lived in Mexico. It was called Los Charros. It was my favorite restaurant as a kid, and I've never tasted anything like the food there since it closed.
Cherry Dum-Dums are surely not the best, but if I could only have one Dum-Dum per year I think I would pick cherry most times. Yeah, I didn't think you'd buy that. Ok, I'd probably pick watermelon nine times out of ten, then buy a box of Luden's cherry lozenges as a consolation prize.
Thus it is not by incessant care that we become faithful and exact in the smallest things, but simply by a love which is free from the reflections and fears of restless and scrupulous souls. - Fénelon
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same...
Went up to the market today with a friend, and the kids found Faygo Rock n' Rye. I didn't know they even made it anymore. They are just as good as I remembered!!!! Also got a bottle of pineapple moscato. And blood oranges. I love blood oranges, and it's so hard to find them really ripe and sweet. The kids got fresh macarons; they loved them.
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson
