Ok, these things are awesome.

No, not the Ikea plates (well those are awesome too) or the goldfish (totally awesome too) but the corn holders.  The freaking corn holders.  If you don’t have these, get them for your pals for your last bbq.  Do you remember the one’s they had when we were little?  Oh, actually I have a hard time remembering because for some reason my mother would not buy these for us.  My sister Sas and I recall begging, literally begging for them in the Sentry grocery store but Barb would not have it.  She would rather we burn our tiny little digits than use these brilliant devices.  I will never understand this one.  It is one of those weird things I remember – wanting these damn corn on the cob holders.  Do you remember the ones from the 70’s looked like tiny cobs of corn?

Do you know how hot a cob of corn fresh out of the pot can be?  Piping.  But it has to be piping so you can roll it over the stick of butter right before you salt and pepper it up real nice.  Then if you don’t have these beauties you end up trying to eat the corn while balancing it between your fingers and not dropping it due to the heat.  The corn essentially turns into a hot potato.  Who knew?

My mom was severely awesome and gave us so much but for some reason I remember the few things we did not get.  We never got to get the super cool fancy folders or notebooks at back to school time…..just the plain colored ones.  F’ing Mead.

The drive-thru lunches and dinners were another one.  At McDonald’s we could only get hamburgers or cheeseburgers and Taco Bell – plain taco or bean burrito.  If you thought you were getting a McRib or a mexican pizza, think again amigo, it was not happening.  An apple pie?  You better get to bed so it can be in your dreams because that is the only place you would find an apple pie in 1983.

I just got a great idea – I am going to go get a few apple pies from McD’s and put the corn holders into the ends and munch away.  Talk about nirvana….I will eat it right over my Strawberry Shortcake folder so if any juice drips out I will be covered.